Register of the Golitsyn family papers
Finding aid prepared by Jill Golden
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Title: Golitsyn family papers
Date (inclusive): 1904-1992
Collection Number: 90027
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The papers consist of memoirs, writings, correspondence, identification documents, and certificates, relating to conditions
in Russia prior to, during and after the Russian Revolution, and to Russian émigré life in Harbin, China, France, and the
United States. Includes material relating to the Glebov family, as well as the papers of Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr
Vladimirovich Golitsyn and Liubov' Vladimirovna Golitsyna.
Creator:
Golit͡syn family
Creator:
Golit͡syn, Mikhail Vladimirovich, kni͡azʹ, 1873-1942
Creator:
Golit͡syn, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, 1876-
Creator:
Golit͡syna, Li͡ubov' V., 1883-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1990.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Golitsyn family papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note: Aleksandr Vladimirovich Golitsyn
| 1876 December 13 |
Born in Moscow, Russia, to an aristocratic family |
| 1901 October 16 |
Received medical degree from Moscow University |
| 1901 November 23 |
Married Liubov' Glebova (1883-1948) |
| 1921-1923 |
Emigrated with his wife and children to Harbin, China where he worked as a doctor for the Russian Society of the Red Cross |
| 1923 October 16 |
Arrived in Seattle from Harbin, China, and applied for U.S. citizenship |
| 1924 January-1940s |
Received U.S. medical license and practiced medicine in Seattle and Los Angeles |
| 1951 |
Died, Los Angeles, California |
Biographical Note: Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn
| 1873 September 2 |
Born in Moscow, Russia, to an aristocratic family |
| 1892-1896 |
Studied law at Moscow University |
| 1922?-1929 |
Worked for Gosplan, the Soviet state planning committee, until dismissed. Requested reinstatement and was denied |
| 1931 |
Moved with his family to Dmitrov, Soviet Union |
| Late 1930s |
Wrote his memoirs of the pre-revolutionary period,
Moi vospominaniia, 1873-1917, published in 2007 by Russkiĭ mir
|
| 1942 |
Died, Dmitrov |
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers consist of memoirs, writings, correspondence, identification documents, and certificates, relating to conditions
in Russia prior to, during and after the Russian Revolution, and to Russian émigré life in Harbin, China, France, and the
United States. Includes material relating to the Glebov family, as well as the papers of Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr
Vladimirovich Golitsyn and Liubov' Vladimirovna Golitsyna.
The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence among members of the Glebov and Golitsyn families. Writing to their
daughter from exile in France, Sofiia and Vladimir Glebov's letters document Russian émigré life in western Europe, while
the letters of Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn to his brother Aleksandr describe conditions in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution.
Of particular interest in the
Correspondence series are letters from Nestor, the Archbishop of Kamchatka and Seoul, on Russian refugees in Harbin, China, and the Russian
Orthodox Church in exile.
The
Aleksandr Golitsyn Career Files relate to the Russian Society of the Red Cross's efforts to resettle the Russian refugees of Harbin in Canada. Memoranda
and correspondence with Canadian officials and Serge Ughet, the financial attaché of the Russian embassy, document measures
to secure visas and jobs for Russian immigrants on the Canadian Pacific railway. A report to the League of Nations describes
the bleak conditions at orphanages for Russian refugee children in China.
Several memoirs by members of the Glebov and Golitsyn families are included in the
Writings series. In "Intimate Days with Tolstoy," Sofiia Glebova recalls conversations with the writer Leo Tolstoy at Iasnaia Poliana
after her daughter's marriage to Tolstoy's son. Memoirs by Mikhail Golitsyn and Vladimir Trubetskoĭ describe aristocratic
life in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. "Sudebnoe delo sem'i Vladimira Sergeevicha Trubetskogo" consists of assembled
correspondence and reports on the fate of five members of the Trubetskoi family executed or sentenced to the gulag in 1937.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Russians -- China
Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Russia -- Social conditions
Harbin (China)
Glebov family
Correspondence
1917-1942
General Physical Description note: 1-2
Scope and Contents note
Consists of correspondence among members of the Glebov and Golitsyn families, primarily to Liubov' Golitsyna from her parents
and to Aleksandr Golitsyn from his brother Mikhail. Divided into two subseries: general correspondence and Russian Orthodox
Church correspondence. Arranged by correspondent and thereunder chronologically
box 1, folder 1
Gaiarin, Fedor
1921 July 18
Glebov family
1917-1927, 1930-1931 and 1937
Scope and Contents note
Consists mainly of letters from Sofiia Nikolaevna Glebova (née Trubetskaia) and Vladimir Petrovich Glebov to their daughter
Liubov'. Also includes correspondence from Glebov siblings and unidentified relatives
Golitsyn family
1917-1918, 1920-1930, 1940
Scope and Contents note
Consists mainly of letters from Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn to his brother Aleksandr. Also includes correspondence from
Aleksandr's parents, Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich Golitsyn and Sofiia Golitsyna
box 2, folder 1-5
Harbin associates
1924-1925
box 2, folder 7
Iarmokhovich, Mariia
1924-1925
box 2, folder 8
Iarmolovich, Aleksandra
1918-1924
box 2, folder 9
Russkiĭ golos
1925 November 2
box 2, folder 10
Shelkovnikov, N.
1922 December 19
box 2, folder 11
Sturgis, Milton
1928 January 17
box 2, folder 12-14
Ughet, Serge, financial attaché of the Russian Embassy in the U.S.
1923-1925
Unidentified
1917-1918, 1921-1925, 1927, 1932, 1933 and undated
Russian Orthodox Church
1922-1927 and 1942
box 2, folder 46
Alexy, Bishop of San Francisco
1927 June 1
box 2, folder 47
Baranoff, Makary, Rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Juneau, Alaska
1942 December 27
box 2, folder 48-54
Nestor, Archbishop of Kamchatka and Seoul (Nikolai Aleksandrovich Anisimov), Harbin
1922-1926
Scope and Contents note
Includes postcard with photograph of Nestor
box 2, folder 55
Platon, Archbishop of New York
1927 and undated
box 2, folder 56-58
Miscellaneous correspondence related to the Russian Orthodox Church
1922-1924
Golitsyn family files
1911-1924
General Physical Description note: 3
Scope and Contents note
Contains certificates, receipts, school reports, ledgers, and visa applications by Liubov' and Aleksandr Golitsyn. Arranged
chronologically
box 3, folder 1
Financial ledger for Liubov' Golitsyna
1911-1912
box 3, folder 2
Rental agreement and property insurance records
1917 and 1923
box 3, folder 3
Donation to a soldiers' charity
1917 August 5
box 3, folder 4
Safe conduct passes and certificates of employment for Liubov' and Aleksandr Golitsyn
1917-1920
box 3, folder 5
Report cards for Ol'ga, Natalia, and Aleksandr Golitsyn
1919
box 3, folder 6
Donation to a tuberculosis charity signed by Liubov' Golitsyna
1920s
box 3, folder 8
M.O. Vol'f bookstore account
1922
box 3, folder 9
Affidavit of intent to become a United States citizen by Aleksandr Golitsyn
1923 February 27
box 3, folder 10
United States visas for Liubov' and Aleksandr Golitsyn and children
1924 January 22 and May 7
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Golitsyn career files
1904-1928
General Physical Description note: 3
Scope and Contents note
Includes memoranda, correspondence, surveys, receipts, and notes related to Aleksandr Golitsyn's medical career and his work
with refugees in Harbin for the Russian Society of the Red Cross. Arranged in three groups: Russia and United States career
files, Russian Society of the Red Cross in China files, and Miscellany; and thereunder chronologically
Russia and United States career files
1904-1928
box 3, folder 11
Moscow State University medical diploma and certified copy in English and Russian
1904 and 1927
box 3, folder 12
Salary rates chart, Tiumen'
1918 November 21
box 3, folder 13
Certificate of employment and correspondence, Tiumen' hospital
1919 July
box 3, folder 14
Orders to open a military depot in Tiumen' signed by General Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs
1919 July 19
box 3, folder 15
Budget ledger
1920 January 1
box 3, folder 16
Certificate of employment, Irkutsk hospital and Harbin Medical School
1920 and 1923 August 31
box 3, folder 17
Letters of reference by the Harbin hospital director and Milton Sturgis
1923 September 7 and 1928 January 14
box 3, folder 18
United States medical license
1924 January
Russian Society of the Red Cross in China files
1920-1924
box 3, folder 19
Certificate of employment, Russian Society of the Red Cross
1920 November 24 and 1923 August 30
box 3, folder 20
Russian children's charity in Harbin donor list
circa 1922
box 3, folder 21
"Report to Dr. Greig, Representative of the League of Nations, on the Position of Russian Refugee Children in Harbin,"
circa 1923
box 3, folder 22
Russian immigrants to China by occupation survey
circa 1923
box 3, folder 23
"Authorization for Aleksandr Golitsyn to Negotiate with the Canadian government on Behalf of Russian Refugees,"
1923
box 3, folder 24
"On Questions to be Cleared up with Proper Canadian Authorities and Institutions in Regard to Possible Transportation of Russian
Refugees from Manchuria to Canada,"
circa 1923
box 3, folder 25
"To Canadian Immigration Authorities in Regard to Possible Absorption by Canada of Part of Russian Refugees from Manchuria,"
1924 January 31
Correspondence
1923-1924
Scope and Contents note
On settling Russian refugees in Canada
box 3, folder 26
Serge Ughet to S.S. Aksakov
1923 September 7
box 3, folder 27
General
1924 January-February
box 3, folder 28
Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence, Department of Colonization and Development
1924 February 15
Scope and Contents note
Relates to employing Russian refugees on railroad construction projects
box 3, folder 30
Obshchestvo sodeĭstviia torgovo-promyshlennomu razvitiiu Rossii donation receipt
1918 March
box 3, folder 31
Harbin Club calling card and invitation
1922
box 3, folder 32
Russian Orthodox Church flyers and clipping
1922
box 3, folder 33
Patriarkh Tikhon death announcement
1923
box 3, folder 34
Kruzhok Revniteleĭ Pravoslavii donation receipts and correspondence
1924 February
Writings
1923-1992 and undated
General Physical Description note: 3-4
Scope and Contents note
Consists of memoirs, published and unpublished writings, and notes relating to pre-Revolutionary Russia, Leo Tolstoy, the
Russian Orthodox Church and the Stalin era. Arranged in two groups: By author and Author unknown, and thereunder alphabetically
By author
1923-1925, 1930s, 1990 and undated
box 3, folder 35
Dakserhof, Marina, assorted notes
circa 1990
box 3, folder 36
Gleboff, Sophie, "Intimate Days with Tolstoy," translated by Lewis Stanton Palen, typescript with corrections, Paris
1924
Scope and Contents note
Gleboff describes her visits with the writer Leo Tolstoy after her daughter Aleksandra's marriage to Tolstoy's son Mikhail
box 3, folder 37
Golitsyn, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich,
Pamiatnyia zapiski Kniazia Aleksandra Mikhaĭlovicha Golitsyna, typescript
undated
box 4, folder 1-6
Golitsyn, Mikhail Vladimirovich,
Moi vospominaniia, 1873-1917, photocopy of typescript
1930s
box 4, folder 7-10
Nestor, Archbishop of Kamchatka and Seoul (Nikolai Aleksandrovich Anisimov), religious writings
1923-1925 and undated
Scope and Contents note
Consists of tracts by Nestor on religious holidays and profiles of Patriarkh Tikhon and Arkhiepiskop Nikolai Iaponskiĭ
box 4, folder 11
Tolstaia, Aleksandra Vladimirovna (née Glebova), Barykovka
1942 December 17
Scope and Contents note
Tolstaia's memoirs of her childhood at the Glebov family estate, Barykovka
box 4, folder 12-13
Trubetskoĭ, Vladimir Sergeevich,
Zapiski Kirasira
undated
Scope and Contents note
Relates to the Russian Imperial Kirasir Household Troops Regiment of Her Majesty Mariia Feodorovna during the period 1911-1913
box 4, folder 14
Zagorskiĭ, M., "Patriarkh Tikhon,"
1925 June 27
Author unknown
1992 June 21 and undated
box 4, folder 15
Fragment
undated
Scope and Contents note
One typescript page with corrections in English
box 4, folder 16
"Kontorshchik Vznuzdaev," manuscript fragment
undated
box 4, folder 17
"Sudebnoe delo sem'i Vladimira Sergeevicha Trubetskogo,"
1992 June 21
Scope and Contents note
Relates to the rehabilitation of several members of the Trubetskoĭ family, including Vladimir Sergeevich (1891-1937) and Varvara
Vladimirovna (1917-1937), both executed by the NKVD in Andizhan. Two other Trubetskoĭ family members, Grigoriĭ Vladmirovich
and Aleksandra Vladimirovna, were sentenced to the gulag in 1937 for counterrevolutionary activities
