Register of the Nikolai Vasil'evich Orlov writings
Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev
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Title: Nikolai Vasil'evich Orlov writings
Date (inclusive): 1940
Collection Number: 2000C108
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
2 microfilm reels
(0.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Relates to the Russian imperial Zaamurskii okrug Otdel'nogo korpusa progranichnoi strazhi.
Creator:
Orlov, Nikolaĭ Vasil'evich
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
[Identification of item], Nikolai Vasil'evich Orlov Writings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Colonel N. V. Orlov served most of his military career in the Zaamurskii okrug Otdel'nogo korpusa pogranichnoi strazhi (Transamur
district of the Russian border guard), and commanded its Fourteenth Regiment during the First World War.
His handwritten history of the Zaamurtsy covers the history of this district and its troops from its formation in 1898 until
its dissolution (along with the entire Russian army) in 1917. Following this dissolution, Orlov returned to Harbin, where
in 1918 he participated in forming a new unit to guard the Chinese Eastern Railway. This Okhrannaia strazha disarmed the pro-Bolshevik
railroad regiments then in place, and formed the basis for the military force of the Chinese Eastern Railway. When Chinese
troops took over its barracks in March 1920, the Okhrannaia strazha was disbanded and Orlov retired. Wounded in battle and
crippled in the use of both his hands, Orlov's five-volume history is a monument to his own perseverance as much as it is
to the soldiers he writes about.
This collection consists of a manuscript history of the Zaamurskii okrug Otdel'nogo korpusa pogranichnoi strazhi, 1898-1917,
compiled by one of its officers.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- Armed Forces
Russia. Otdel'nyĭ korpus pogranichnoĭ strazhi