Register of the Vera Cattell collection
Finding aid prepared by Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop
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Title: Vera Cattell collection
Date (inclusive): 1767-1986
Collection Number: 2000C2
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 card file box
(4.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to aspects of Russian imperial
and military history, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and Russian émigrés in China and elsewhere.
source:
Cattell, Vera
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
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vera Cattell Collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists primarily of papers belonging to Grigorii Konstantinovich Bologov, chairman of the Russian Emigrants'
Association of Shanghai, and concerns the evacuation and resettlement of White Russian refugees from China. The bulk of the
series under that name relates to the emigrants' stay at a refugee camp on Tubobao Island in the Philippines under the auspices
of the United Nations International Refugee Organization. It includes material about conditions in the camp, lists of refugees,
and correspondence with American and Philippine camp authorities, as well as correspondence related to efforts to obtain permission
for emigration to the United States, South America, and Australia. Of special interest is an extensive correspondence of Archbishop
John of Shanghai and San Francisco. Also included are the founding documents and minutes of meetings of the Russian Emigrants'
Association in Shanghai and Tubobao.
Of particular interest in the subject file are the correspondence and personal papers of Prince Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza,
as well as printed copies of orders issued by him as Commander of the Ekaterinburg Garrison in 1918-1919, during the Russian
Civil War. The file also contains the business papers and military medals of Leonid Vishnevetskii, his business partner.
The photograph file contains a large leatherbound album celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Guards Regiment
(Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi), in which the prince served and which includes informal photographs of the Russian imperial
family.
Furthermore, the collection contains the commission and passport papers of Karol de Perthees, royal cartographer to King Stanislaw
August Poniatowski of Poland, to be found in the oversize file. Karol de Perthees was probably the most prominent 18th century
Polish cartographer. He was born in Dresden, the capital of the Saxon-Polish monarchy, the illegitimate son of the Russian
envoy in Dresden and later in Warsaw, baron Herman Kayserling. Perthees lived and worked in Warsaw from 1764 until 1798. After
the third partition of Poland he moved to Wilno where he devoted his time to entomology. (He compiled 9 vols. of
Insecta Polonica et Lithuanica.) Perthees' detailed maps of Poland, later reprinted in Berlin and Petersburg, were commonly used during Napoleon's invasion
of Russia. He was married to Jozefa, the middle daughter of Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto, the court painter of King Stanislaw
August.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- History, Military
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Russians -- China
Russia -- History
Cattell, Vera
Russian Refugees from China File
1937-1973
Scope and Contents note
Announcements, appeals, clippings, correspondence, financial records, founding documents, lists, memoranda, minutes of meetings,
petitions, reports, personal papers, clippings and other printed matter, related to the evacuation and resettlement of Russian
refugees from China. Arranged alphabetically by subject
box 1, folder 2
Individual petitions for emigration
1949-1951
Bologov, Grigorii (G. K. Bologoff), Chairman of the Russian Emigrants' Association
Bogen, E. (Special Delegate for Resettlement, IRO-UNEC, Tubobao, Philippines)
box 1, folder 5
General
Scope and Contents note
Includes instructions of American government agencies and International Refugee Organization, 1949-1951
box 1, folder 6
Resettlement in Germany
1949
box 1, folder 7
Delovaia Komissiia Pomoshchi Tubobavtsam (Viktor Korostylev)
1949-1950
box 1, folder 8
Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev (Committee on Resettlement of Russian Refugees) (Viktor
Borzov)
1949-1950
box 1, folder 9
Modest, Hieromonk
1950-1952
box 1, folder 12
Zaitsev, Pavel (
Russkaia Zhizn')
1949
box 1, folder 13
Memorandum to American government
1950
box 1, folder 15
"Possible Improvements of Legal Position of the Russian Emigrants,"
undated
box 1, folder 16
"Russian Emigrants' Association,"
undated
box 1, folder 17
"Russian Political Emigrants in China,"
undated
box 1, folder 18
"Ruinous Position of White Russian Emigrants in China,"
1946
box 1, folder 19
"On Persons Twice Displaced" and "On Camp Conditions in Tubobao,"
1949
box 1, folder 20
Diplomatic missions in Shanghai. List of personnel
1948
box 1, folder 21
Federation of Russian Charitable Organizations in the United States. Minutes of meeting,
1948 April
General note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev
I.R.O. Camp, Tubobao Island, Cuiuan, Samar, Philippines
General note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev
box 1, folder 22
Correspondence, reports and clippings related to Senator William Knowland's visit to the camp
1949
box 1, folder 23
Draft for constitution of Arbitration Board
undated
box 1, folder 24
Arrested for various misdemeanors
undated
box 1, folder 25
Members of R.E.A. Concert Band
undated
box 2, folder 1-2
Residents in the camp
1949
John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco
box 2, folder 5
Clippings
Scope and Contents note
Includes newspaper interviews, 1949
Correspondence with Grigorii Bologov
box 2, folder 10
Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev (Committee on Resettlement of Russian Refugees). Announcements
and forms,
1950
General note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev
box 2, folder 11
Orthodox Church in China, Chancery. Announcements, directives, and correspondence
1949-1950
Rossiiskaia Emigrantskaia Assotsiatsiia (Russian Emigrants' Association)
General note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/ Correspondence
box 2, folder 12
Address to John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco
1949
Appeals for aid in the resettlement of refugees
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, reports, and printed matter
box 2, folder 17
Brazil
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence of V. Reyer
box 2, folder 18
International Refugee Organization, Geneva,
1949
Scope and Contents note
Includes 3,000 signatures of camp residents
box 2, folder 19
Italy
Scope and Contents note
Report on refugee camp
box 3, folder 1
Philippines
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence with president's office
United States
General note
See also Bologov/ Correspondence/Bogen, E.
box 3, folder 3
List of refugees who applied for immigration into the U.S.
Correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings related to Grigorii Bologov's business travel
box 3, folder 5
Trip to Manila, Philippines
1949
box 3, folder 8
Donations file,
1950
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 3, folder 9
Financial records
1947-1950
box 3, folder 10
Letter of gratitude to the American people
undated
box 3, folder 11
Membership registration blanks and list of members
1940-1949
Minutes of meetings
1948-1950
box 7
Printed matter
General note
See OVERSIZE FILE
box 3, folder 14
Replies to enquiries related to members
1949-1950
box 3, folder 15-18
Statutes, founding documents and other material related to the organization in Shanghai
1946-1949
box 3, folder 19
Russian Center of San Francisco. Miscellany
1952
box 3, folder 20
St. Tikhon's Orphanage and Seminary of St. John the Baptist
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence between the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in China and the Tubobao Camp Administration, and a list
of pupils and staff, 1949-1950
box 3, folder 21
Surinam. "Vestnik Russkikh v Surinami,"
1952
box 3, folder 22
United States. Congress. House of Representatives, Report No. 2187, 81st Congress, 2nd Session
1950 June 2
Subject File
1913-1931
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and personal papers of Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza and Leonid Vishnevetskii; Russian paper money and government
bonds; documents related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Arranged alphabetically by subject
box 4, folder 2
Georgievskii Komitet Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Velikago Kniazia Mikhail Aleksandrovicha. Statutes and membership list
1915-1916
Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza
General note
See also OVERSIZE FILE
box 4, folder 3
Correspondence and clippings related to court case re inheritance
1930-1931
box 4, folder 4
Personal papers, including military service records
1913-1915
box 4, folder 5
Orders issued as Commander of Ekaterinburg Garrison,
1918-1919
Scope and Contents note
Printed sheets
box 4, folder 6
Mariia Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
1913-1914
box 4, folder 7
Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke
1914-1915
box 4, folder 9
Petrogradskii Sovet Rabochikh i Soldatskikh Deputatov. Order No. 1,
1917 March 1
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 10
Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi (Imperial Guards Regiment). Orders,
1916 February
General note
See also PHOTOGRAPHS
box 4, folder 11
Tsarskoe Selo. Clipping
circa 1917
box 4, folder 12-13
Vishnevetskii, Leonid. Contracts and other documents related to platinum mining,
1903-1916
General note
See also Photographs and Memorabilia
Photographs,
1929-1937
Scope and Contents note
72 prints related to Russia before the Revolution; 1 album of 22 postcards depicting uniforms of the Imperial Guard; 1 large
leatherbound album celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Guards (Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi) and containing
100 prints depicting the regiment and the imperial family
box 5, folder 1
1 print depicting Saint John of Kronstadt
undated
box 5, folder 2
19 prints depicting Emperor Nicholas II
undated
box 5, folder 3
5 prints depicting Empress Alexandra
undated
box 5, folder 4
15 prints depicting Grand Duke Alexis
undated
box 5, folder 5
18 prints depicting the imperial family
undated
box 5, folder 6
6 prints depicting the imperial family in informal military settings
undated
box 5, folder 7
1 postcard depicting Emperor Nicholas II, commemorating his death
1929
box 5, folder 8
1 print depicting Leonid Vishnevetskii
1927
box 5, folder 9
4 prints depicting miscellaneous Russian subjects
undated
box 5, folder 10
1 print depicting the Declaration of Trust of the China Realty Co.
1937
box 5, folder 11
1 photograph copy of a Chinese document
undated
box 5, folder 12
Album of 22 postcards, illustrating uniforms of the Imperial Guard
undated
box 6
Album celebrating the 100
th anniversary of the Imperial Guard (Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi)
Scope and Contents note
Includes 100 prints showing members of the regiment in dress uniform and on parade. Also includes formal and informal photographs
of the imperial family, n.d.
box 7
1 print depicting the class of the Khristchanskii Soiuz Molodykh Liudei College in Harbin, China
1936
box 7
Jiganoff, V. D.,
Russkie v Shankhae
undated
box 8
Komitet po Sooruzheniiu Khrama Pamiatnika Moriakam Pogibshim v Voinu s Iaponiei v 1904-1905 gg.,
Khram Pamiatnik Moriakam Pogibshim v Voinu s Iaponiei v
1904-1905
gg
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy, 1915
box 9
Personal papers of Karol de Perthees (1740-1812), royal cartographer/geographer to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski of Poland
Scope and Contents note
Includes his Commission as lieutenant in the Polish Crown artillery, signed by Count Aloisius Bruhl, 1767; a passport for
travel to Elblag, East Prussia, signed by King Stanislaw August; his commission as colonel, signed by King Stanislaw August,
1783; extract from a register of the nobility of Wilno Guberniia confirming titles of the Perthees family, with wax seal of
Emperor Alexander I, 1812
box 9
Watercolor depicting a rider (Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza?) on horseback
undated
box 10
Memorabilia,
1920-1928
Scope and Contents note
Medals received by Leonid Vishnevetskii for service in the Polish Army, 1920-1928
