Register of the Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev papers
Finding aid prepared by Yves Franquien
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Title: Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev papers
Date (inclusive): 1850-1998
Collection Number: 80009
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 card file box
(3.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Sergei Taneev was a Captain in the Russian Imperial army, and was married to Tinatine Djordjadze. The collection contains
correspondence, notes, government documents, certificates, printed matter, photographs, and books, relating to the Russian
Imperial army and Russian émigrélife. It also includes papers of the father and grandfather of S. A. Taneev, both tsarist
government officials.
Creator:
Taneev, Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich, 1887-1975
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
May not be published without written permission of Tinatine Taneyew or her executor. For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Biographical/Historical Note
Sergei Taneev was a Captain in the Russian Imperial army, and was married to Tinatine Djordjadze. Taneev's sister, Anna (married
surname Vyrubova) was a lady-in-waiting to Empress Alexandra Fedorovna and one of her closest confidantes.
Chronology
1887 February 19 |
Born St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
1910 May 15 |
Graduates from University of St. Petersburg |
1910 June 12 |
Begins service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs |
1912 August 26 |
Appointed master of ceremonies of the Imperial Court |
1914 July 20 |
Called to active military service with the 9th Army |
1915 October 17 |
Promoted to the rank of poruchik (cavalry second lieutenant) |
1916 February 21 |
Named first lieutenant of cavalry |
1916 November 2 – 1917 January |
Received accelerated officer training at the Imperial Alexander Military Academy |
1917 February 5 |
Married Princess Tinatina Il'inichna Djordjadze in Petrograd, Russia |
1918 February 28 |
Transferred to the reserve of the 9th Army |
1918 |
Birth of daughter Nina |
1919 |
Liaison officer with British forces in the Trans-Caucasus |
1919 December – 1923 December |
Worked as an accountant, bookkeeper and secretary for a trading company and refugee relief organizations in Constantinople,
Turkey
|
1924 November 2 |
Arrived in the United States with wife and daughter |
1924 December 23 |
Death of daughter Nina |
1925-1959 |
Employed by Marine Midland Trust Co. and other banks |
1975 February 1 |
Died, New York, NY |
1987 July 23 |
Death of Tinatina Taneev |
Scope and Content of Collection
The Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev papers consist of biographical documents, correspondence, memoirs, other writings, photographs
and printed matter relate to the Russian Imperial army and Russian émigré life.
Papers of other members of the Taneev family include the manuscript of memoirs written by Sergei Taneev's sister Anna Vyrubova
subsequent to the publication of her Memoirs of the Russian Court in 1923 and the photographs she took of members of the Romanov
family.
Arrangement Statement
The collection is organized into ten series: Biographical file, correspondence, diary, writings, family file, subject file,
printed matter, photographs, memorabilia, and oversize file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Officers
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917
Russia. Armii͡a
Biographical File
1911-1969, undated
box 1, folder 1
Educational record
1923
Scope and Contents
Certificate confirming his graduation from university and receipt of diploma in 1910
box 1, folder 2
Genealogy
1956, undated
Scope and Contents
Genealogy of the Taneev and related families, genealogical notes and table
box 1, folder 3
Identity papers
1920-1969
Scope and Contents
Certificates and passports
box 1, folder 4
Letters of recommendation
1919-1932, undated
box 1, folder 5
Marriage certificate
1917
Scope and Contents
Russian original and English translation
box 1, folder 6
Military service records
1918-1919
Scope and Contents
Compiled service record (posluzhnoi spisok) and certificates
box 1, folder 7
Naturalization papers
1930
Scope and Contents
Certificate of citizenship
box 1, folder 8
Property records
1911-1918
Scope and Contents
Documents related to the estate at Bogodukhovo in Orlov Province and its confiscation in November 1917
box 1, folder 12
Pleshko, Nikolai Dmitrievich
1949-1957
Scope and Contents
Concerns the genealogy of the Taneev and related families
box 1, folder 13
Diary
undated
Scope and Contents
ca. 1951. Contains quotations and long excerpts from writings by various philosophers
Writings
1942-1963, undated
box 1, folder 14
""Animi Ingemescentis Meditatio' (The Case of the Rock Versus Sand)"
undated
Scope and Contents
Typescript
box 1, folder 15
"
Fifty Years in the Ranks by A. A. Ignatieff"
undated
Scope and Contents
ca. 1942. Typescript
box 1, folder 16
"Nationality and Its Problems in the U.S.S.R."
undated
Scope and Contents
Typescript
box 1, folder 17
"Put' ternistyi. Opyt ratsional'nago podkhoda k dukhovnomu mirosozertsaniiu"
undated
Scope and Contents
2 notebooks. Holograph
box 1, folder 18
"Rasputin"
undated
Scope and Contents
Holograph
box 1, folder 19
"Understanding Soviet 'Nationality'"
undated
Scope and Contents
Typescript
box 1, folder 20
Untitled review of
Russia Then and Always by Nina V. and Fillmore Hyde
undated
Scope and Contents
Typescript
box 1, folder 21
"The Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism"
1935
Scope and Contents
Typescript
"The Transformation of Russia. Reminiscences and thoughts"
undated
Scope and Contents
ca. 1958-1959
box 1, folder 22
Fragment (pages 42-144) of an earlier verison
undated
box 1, folder 23
Draft with author's edits and repagination
undated
box 2, folder 1
Draft with table of contents and genealogical chart
undated
box 2, folder 3
"O moem imienii Bogodukhovo Orlovskoi gubernii"
1963
Scope and Contents
Holograph
Family File
1862-1980, undated
Taneev, Sergei Aleksandrovich (1821-1889) (grandfather)
1862, undated
box 2, folder 4
Diary
undated
Scope and Contents
Contains his thoughts, reminiscences, aphorisms, and excerpts from works by others
box 2, folder 5
Writings
1862
Scope and Contents
Ocherk narodno-uchebnago ustroistva v korolevstvakh prusskom I saksonskom. Printed copy
Taneev, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1850-1918) (father)
1882-1954, undated
box 2, folder 6
Biography
1954
Scope and Contents
Article from
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
box 2, folder 7
Clippings
1914
Scope and Contents
Concert reviews from
Russkiia viedomosti and
Russkoe slovo of performances of his works by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra
box 2, folder 8
Contract
1914
Scope and Contents
Copyright agreement with P. Jurgenson musical publishing house
box 2, folder 9
Correspondence
1882-1889
Scope and Contents
Letters from his father, Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev
box 2, folder 10
Miscellany
1913, undated
Scope and Contents
Jubilee concert program, title page to his Second Symphony, and a musical manuscript
box 2, folder 11
Taneeva, Nina Sergeevna (daughter)
1918
Scope and Contents
Birth certificate (exxtract from parish register)
Taneeva (née Djordjadze), Tinatina Il'inichna (wife)
1923-1980, undated
Correspondence
1923-1980, undated
box 2, folder 12
General
1955, undated
Scope and Contents
Contains letters from Anna Vyrubova, Liubov' Trubetskaia, and an unidentified correspondent
box 2, folder 13
Bertenson, Sergei L'vovich
1923
box 2, folder 14
Goul [Gul'], Roman B.
1978
box 2, folder 15
Hoover Institution
1975-1980
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the donation of the S. A. Taneev Papers
box 2, folder 16
Identity and naturalization papers
1917-1967
Scope and Contents
Russian and U.S. passports, U.S. certificate of citizenship
Vyrubova (née Taneeva), Anna Aleksandrovna (1884-1964) (sister)
Writings
1922-1935, undated
Memoirs of the Russian Court (1923)
1922-1934
box 3, folder 1
Author's contract with The Macmilllan Company
1922
box 3, folder 2
Correspondence with The Macmillan Company
1934-1935
box 3, folder 3
Dnevnik Anny Vyrubovoi
1928
Scope and Contents
Cable from Anna Vyrubova and clippings regarding this fabricated diary published in the USSR and Riga, Latvia, and serialized
in French and Russian émigré newspapers
Untitled memoirs
undated
Scope and Contents
ca. 1938. Typescript
box 3, folder 4
Complete copy, 146 pages
undated
box 3, folder 5
Incomplete copy
undated
Scope and Contents
Missing pages 1-22, 48-86. 126 and 130
box 3, folder 6
Russian translation
undated
Scope and Contents
Contains only page 55, which is page 72 of the English original
box 3, folder 7
Annen-Schule
1936
Scope and Contents
Information about preparations for the celebration of the bicentennial of the founding of the Saint Anna German High School
in St. Petersburg
box 3, folder 8
Bertenson, Sergei L'vovich (1885-1962)
1998
Scope and Contents
Translation of letter from S. L. Bertenson to T. I. Taneeva with notes and other materials sent by translator Irina Liberman
about Bertenson and the Moscow Art Theater
box 3, folder 9
Nicholas II
1917-1973
Scope and Contents
Copies of his abdication statement, his farewell order to his army, a brochure entitled "Tsarstvovanie Imperatora Nikolaia
II, 1894-1917, v tsifrakh I faktakh", and clippings
box 3, folder 10-11
Russia. Armiia (1775-1918)
1956-1964
box 3, folder 10
Roop, Khristofor Khristoforovich (comp.).
Sluzhba Leib-gusar Tsariu i Rodinie. Sokrashchennaia istoriia Leib-gvardii gusarskago Ego Velichesstva polka
1956
Scope and Contents
Rotaprint. Never published
box 3, folder 11
Semenovtsy v 1915, 1916 i 1917 godakh. Kratkoe izlozhenie sobytii v dieistvuiushchem L. Gv. Semenovskom polku ot Vysochaishchago
smotra pod Garvolinym i do okonchatel'nago razvala armii
, Buenos Aires
1964
box 3, folder 12
Gevaert, A. F.
Rukovodstvo k instrumentirovkie, Moskva
1868
box 4, folder 1
Rimskii-Korsakov, N.
Prakticheskii uchebnik garmonii, St. Petersburg
1886
Scope and Contents
[A. S. Taneev was his student]
box 4, folder 2
Satina, S.
Obrazovanie zhenshchin v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii, New York
1966
box 4, folder 3
Satina S.
Moi vospominaniia, New York
1975
box 4, folder 4
Stroev, V. N.
Stolietie Sobstvennoi Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva kantseliarii, St. petersburg
1912
box 4, folder 5-6
Novik. Istoriko-genealogicheskii zhurnal, New York
1956-1957
Scope and Contents
Contains No. 20 (1956) and No. 21 (1957)
Photographs
circa 1850-1937, undated
box 4, folder 7
Mikhailovskii Palace, Leningrad
1926
Scope and Contents
One print depicting the wing of the palace in which Aleksandr Sergeevich Taneev had his chancellery and apartment
box 4, folder 8
Ob"edinenie Leib-gvardii Gusarskogo polka
undated
Scope and Contents
One print of surviving veterans of the regiment in Paris, 1920s or 1930s
box 4, folder 9
Officers of the Ninth Army
1917
Scope and Contents
Group portrait taken at the army's base in Romania. Includes General Kel'chevskii and Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev
box 4, folder 10
Oranienbaum Palace
undated
Scope and Contents
One large negative
Romanov family and imperial events
1910-1918, undated
box 4, folder 11
Grand Duchesses Anastasia, Maria, Olga and Tatiana
1916, undated
Scope and Contents
Four prints, one depicting Anastasia and Olga with children at Mogilev (1916), two depicting Olga and Tatiana with wounded
soldiers and one of all four sisters
box 4, folder 12
Romanov rulers
undated
Scope and Contents
Four prints of images and photographs of Catherine the Great, Paul I, Alexander II, and Nicholas II
box 4, folder 13
Tsat Nicholas II
undated
Scope and Contents
One print of a photograph of a portrait of the tsar painted in 1900 by the artist Valentin Serov
box 4, folder 14
Tsar Nicholas II
1910-1916, undated
Scope and Contents
Three prints
box 4, folder 15
Tsar Nicholas II and his son Alexis
1911
Scope and Contents
One print depicting them in a carriage near Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg
box 4, folder 16
Tsar Nicholas II and his son Alexis
1916, undated
Scope and Contents
Five prints depicting them together alone or with troops
box 5, folder 1
Tsar Nicholas II with his wife, family members and others
1916, undated
Scope and Contents
Five prints
box 5, folder 2
Tsarevich Alexis Nikolaevich Romanov
1916, undated
Scope and Contents
Four prints
box 5, folder 3
Tsaritsa Alexandra Fedorovna
1910
Scope and Contents
One print depicting her posing for the sculptor Pietro Canonica at the Alexander Palace
box 5, folder 4
Tsaritsa Alexandra Fedorovna and her daughters Olga and Tatiana
1918
Scope and Contents
One print of them in exile in Tobolsk
box 5, folder 5
Vyrubova, Anna
undated
Scope and Contents
Two prints. One depicts her with Tsar Nicholas II, three officers, and an unidentified lady. The other shows Anna Vyrubova
at an unidentified event among officers and ladies
box 5, folder 6
Unidentified
undated
Scope and Contents
Two prints, one depicting a letter signed "A. T.", and the other two unidentified women and two officers
box 5, folder 7
Sobstvennaia Ego Imperatorskago Vilichestva Kantseliariia
1912
Scope and Contents
Group photograph of Tsar Nicholas II with members of his Chancellery from
Niva magazine
Taneev family photographs
circa 1850-1937, undated
Photoalbum with roses on coer
1920-1924
Scope and Contents
Mostly photographs of Tinatina Taneeva and her daughter Nina taken in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, and Constantinople (Istanbul),
Turkey. Sergei Taneev appears on a few photographs
box 5, folder 8
Album with intact photographs
1920-1924
box 5, folder 9
Loose photographs and negatives from the album
1920-1924
box 5, folder 10
Pistohlkors, von (née Taneeva), Aleksandra Aleksandrovna (1888-1963)
1930
Scope and Contents
Two prints of a photograph taken in Stockholm, Sweden
box 5, folder 11
Taneev family, Vyborg, Finland
1926-1927, undated
Scope and Contents
Eleven group photographs of Sergei and Tinatina Taneev, Nadezhda Taneeva, Anna Vyrubova, and others
box 5, folder 12
Taneev, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1785-1866)
undated
Scope and Contents
One print of a portrait of Sergei A. Taneev's great-grandfather painted in 1853 by Sergei Konstantinovich Zarenko
Taneev, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Jr. (1850-1918)
1912-1916, undated
box 5, folder 13
Seven prints
1913-1916, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes one of A. S. Taneev with Professor Petrov of the St. Petersburg Conservatory
box 5, folder 14
Taneev, Sergei Aleksandrovich (1821-1889)
circa 1850-1860
Scope and Contents
One print of a photograph taken in Dresden, Germany of Sergei A. Taneev's grandfather
box 5, folder 15
Taneev, Sergei Aleksandrovich and his mother Nadezhda Illarionovna
undated
Scope and Contents
Photograph taken in St. Petersburg, Russia, most likely in 1898
box 5, folder 16
Taneev, Sergei Aleksandrovich
1937, undated
Scope and Contents
Two individual photographs and four photographs of S. A. Taneev with his wife Tinatina and others
box 5, folder 17
Taneeva (née Tolstaia), Nadezhda Illarionovna (1860-1937)
1903-1937
Scope and Contents
One photogravure image depicting her in "boyar" costume at the costume ball of 1903, four snapshots, two portrait photographs
of her in Finland, and one print of her grave at Ristimäki Cemetery, Viipuri (Vyborg) with note on reverse by Anna Vyrubova
box 5, folder 18
Taneeva (née Djordjadze), Tinatina and her daughter
1922, undated
Scope and Contents
Ten prints. Asee also Memorabilia for the gold frame, which used to house some of the photographs
box 5, folder 19
Tolstoi, Illarion Nikolaevich (1832-1904), Lt. General
undated
Scope and Contents
One print of Sergei A. Taneev's maternal grandfather
box 5, folder 20
Vsevolozhskaia (née Tolstaia), Ekaterina Illarionovna (1862-1916)
1914
Scope and Contents
Two prints depicting her in the living room of her mansion in St. Petersburg
box 5, folder 21
Vyrubova (née Taneeva), Anna Aleksandrovna (1884-1964)
1904
Scope and Contents
Two prints of her in the attire of a lady-in-waiting at the court of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna in St. Petersburg
box 5, folder 22
Unidentified photograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a painting depicting Jesus Christ with saints, monks and Russian peasants
box 5, folder 23
Glass slides (negatives)
undated
Scope and Contents
Three slides depicting Nina Taneeva
Memorabilia
1884, undated
box 6, folder 1
Gold frame
undated
Scope and Contents
Frame which used to house a group of photographsa of Tinatina Taneeva and her daughter
box 6, folder 2
New Testament in Church Slavonic
undated
Scope and Contents
Presented to Aleksandr Sergeevich Taneev by his father in 1884 and later presented to Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev
box 6, folder 3
Oval framed photograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Sergei Taneev's mother Nadezhda Illarionovna in blue protective box
box 6, folder 4
Printed silk icon of St. Panteleimon
undated
box 7, folder 1
Lacquered wooden paper folder
undated
Scope and Contents
Wooden creaser with an illustration of a penitent woman kneeling before an angel. Made in the Russian Empire
box 8, folder 1
Leib-Gvardii gusarskii polk Ego Velichestva
1911
Scope and Contents
One print and one negative depicting members of this regiment