Register of the Sergei Aleksandrovich Taneev papers

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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May not be published without written permission of Tinatine Taneyew or her executor.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
 

Correspondence 1940-1957

box 1, folder 9

Böhm, Karl 1940

box 1, folder 10

Brewster, Robert 1944

box 1, folder 11

Neubert, Hermann 1940

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 2

Carbon copy 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
 

Subject File 1917-1998

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

 

Printed Matter 1868-1975

 

Books 1868-1975

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

 

Journals 1956-1957

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 12

One portait print 1912

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
 

Oversize File 1911

box 8, folder 1

Leib-Gvardii gusarskii polk Ego Velichestva 1911

Scope and Contents

One print and one negative depicting members of this regiment