Register of the Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov papers
Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev
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Title: Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-1940
Collection Number: 2000C65
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
2 microfilm reels
(0.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, military documents, and photographs, relating to Russian military activities during World War I, and to the
Russian Civil War.
Creator:
Tolstov, Sergeĭ Sergeevich, 1881-
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
[Identification of item], Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1881 February 13 (O.S.) | Born, Kazanskaia guberniia, Russia |
| 1898 | Entered military service as a volunteer |
| 1901 | Graduated Kazan' infantry military college |
| 1904-1905 | Served in Russo-Japanese War with 6 th Eniseiskii polk |
| 1914-1915 | Commanded mounted unit of 2 nd Siberian Rifle Division |
| 1915-1916 | Battalion commander, 5 th Eastern Siberian Rifles |
| 1917 | Commanded Krasnoiarsk garrison |
| Commanded 6 th Siberian Rifle Brigade | |
| Commanded 15 th Siberian Reserve Regiment | |
| 1918 | Commandant, Vladivostok fortress |
| Commanded military and naval forces of the Maritime District | |
| 1919 April | Arrived, Shanghai, China |
| 1923 | Arrived, United States |
Colonel S. S. Tolstov was born on 13 February 1881. He was wounded in the Russo-Japanese War and several times in the course
of the First World War, where he began as a captain and rose to command the 5th Siberian Rifles (promoted to the rank of colonel
in 1916).
In 1917, as commander of the 6th Siberian Reserve Brigade, he was simultaneously the commander of the Krasnoiarsk garrison
and later the entire military region. Arrested during the anti-Bolshevik uprising in Irkutsk in December 1917, he escaped
from jail to Vladivostok, where he worked in various capacities. In June 1918, he was invited by the anti-Bolshevik government
in Vladivostok to be commander of the Primor'e Military District. In September 1918, he resigned his command for political
reasons and left for Shanghai (1919). In 1923 he and his wife, Lidiia Vladislavovna, moved to San Francisco, where he was
involved in fundraising activity to help Russian war invalids abroad, and where he died of a heart attack on 9 November 1950.
The papers of Colonel Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov detail his military career during the First World War and Russian Civil War.
They include orders, battlefield notes and descriptions of battles on the Austrian front of World War I, and in Siberia and
the Far East (Vladivostok) during the period 1917-1919. The correspondence is also largely of a military nature.
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 the 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.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Officers
Russia. Armii͡a
reel 1
reel 1
reel 1
reel 1
reel 1
Russia (Territory under White Armies, ). 1918-1920
reel 1
Armiia
Documents relating to the Civil War in the Maritime District, particularly the situation in Vladivostok in 1918, consisting
mainly of correspondence, recommendations, orders, and related matter
Existence and Location of Originals
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 6-8, housed at Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco
World War 1914-1918
reel 2
reel 2
reel 2
Veterans--Russia