Inventory of the Anatoliĭ L'vovich Markov writings

Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova
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Title: Anatoliĭ L'vovich Markov writings
Date (inclusive): 1917-1962
Collection Number: XX738
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes (1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection consists of memoirs and other writings relating to Russian military operations in World War I and the Russian Revolution, subsequent anti-communist movements in the Soviet Union (including biographies of participants), Soviet agents in Egypt and police surveillance and prosecution of them, and Russian émigré affairs. military operations in World War I and the Russian Revolution, subsequent anti-communist movements in the Soviet Union (including biographies of participants), Soviet agents in Egypt and police surveillance and prosecution of them, and Russian émigré affairs.
Creator: Markov, Anatoliĭ Lʹvovich, 1893-1961
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

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives between 1983 and 2000.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Anatoliĭ L'vovich Markov writings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternative Forms of Material Available

A portion of the collection is available on microfilm.

Biographical Note

1893 Born, Kurskaia guberniia, Russia
1913 Graduated from the Voronezh Cadet Corps and Nicholas Cavalry School
1914-1915 Served in World War I and was wounded
1920-1951 Immigrated to Egypt, assigned to a major post in the police in Alexandria
1950 Author of Monasteries in the Desert
1952 Retired and moved to the U.S.; author of Events in Egypt
1961 Author of The Cadets and Cadets; died in San Francisco

Scope and Content of Collection

Anatoliĭ L'vovich Markov was a Russian writer, author of numerous articles, memoirs, short stories, and historical essays. He also wrote under the pseudonym Sharki.
The collection consists of Markov's writings from all periods of his life relating to Russian military operations in World War I and the Russian Revolution, subsequent anti-communist movements in the Soviet Union (including biographies of participants), Soviet agents in Egypt and the police surveillance and prosecution of them, and Russian émigré affairs. The articles contain information about life in the Russian colony in Egypt and history of the region as a whole, as well as about the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The writings include seven titled scrapbooks containing clippings on the White movement from Russian émigré periodicals published in the United States from 1956 to 1959, émigré memoirs compiled by A. Markov, as well as his published memoirs Rodnye Gnezda.

Related Materials

Vladimir Konkordovich Abdank-Kossovskiĭ papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Anatoliĭ L'vovich Markov papers, 1933-1963, Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Bakhmeteef Archives

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Soviet Union -- Biography
Anti-communist movements -- Soviet Union
Subversive activities -- Egypt
Secret service -- Egypt
Police -- Egypt
Espionage, Russian -- Egypt
Communism -- Egypt

box 1, folder 1-8

"Entsiklopediia Belogo Dvizheniia," Vol. I-IV (Encyclopedia of the Russian White Movement) circa 1960

box 1, folder 9

"V Bor'be s Krasnym D'iavolom" (Thirty-five years of service in Egyptian political police) 1960

box 2, folder 1-3

"V Bor'be s Krasnym D'iavolom" (Thirty-five years of service in Egyptian political police) 1960

box 2, folder 4-7

"Kavkazskaia Konnaia Tuzemnaia Diviziia v Voĭnu 1914-1918 gg." (Memoirs of participants and historical review of the Russian irregular army in the Caucasus) 1949

Scope and Contents note

Typescript stamped by the press censor of Alexandria, Egypt
box 2, folder 8-10

"V Izgnanii" (Memoirs) 1959

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings and photographs
box 2, folder 11

"Ocherki Russkoĭ Smuty i Revoliutsii" (Essays on Russian turmoil and revolution), typescript 1958

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings of Markov's articles
box 3, folder 1

"Ocherki Russkoĭ Smuty i Revoliutsii" (Essays on Russian turmoil and revolution), typescript, 1958

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings of Markov's articles
box 3, folder 2-6

"Liudi Drevnego Blagochestiia" (The history of sectarianism in Russia) 1960

 

"Zapiski o Proshlom" (Memoirs by various authors) 1955

box 3, folder 7

Volume I. Newspaper articles, Turkey-Egypt 1917-1952

box 3, folder 8

Volume II. Newspaper articles, Alexandria, Egypt 1933-1951

box 4, folder 1

Volume III. "Vospominaniia o Sluzhbe v Egipetskoĭ Politicheskoĭ Politsii, 1922-1943" (The memoirs of Markov?s Egyptian political police service) undated

box 4, folder 2

Rodnye Gnezda (memoirs), printed copy 1962

microfilm cabinet

"Entsiklopediia Belogo Dvizheniia," Vol. I-IV (Encyclopedia of the Russian White Movement) circa 1960