Register of the Anton Antonovich Dobkevich papers

Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev
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Title: Anton Antonovich Dobkevich papers
Date (inclusive): 1898-1923
Collection Number: 2000C64
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 1 microfilm reel (0.15 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, military documents, and photographs, relating to Russian military activities in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Creator: Dobkevich, Anton Antonovich, 1892-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Anton Antonovich Dobkevich papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of Originals

Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

Chronology

1892 January 18 (O. S.) Born, Dubno, Volynskaia guberniia, Russia
1910 Graduated, Pervyi Moskovskii kadetskii korpus
1912 Sub-Lieutenant, 3-ii Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk
  Graduated, Kievskoe voennoe uchilishche
1915 Transferred to 74 -yi Sibirskii oboznyi batalion
  Wounded and awarded St. George cross
  Transferred, 6-oi Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk
1916 Lieutenant, 2-ia Zaamurskaia zheleznodorozhnaia brigada
1918 Enlisted, Chinese Eastern Railway security forces
  Discharged from Russian army
1919 May-August Chief of staff, 1-aia partizanskaia kavaleriiskaia brigada
1919 August-1920 January Senior adjutant, Otdel'naia Amurskaia kazach'ia brigada
1920 July-1921 May Agent, Chinese Eastern Railway internal security
1922 Arrived in the United States

Biography

A. A. Dobkevich was born on 18 January 1894 (1892 according to other records) in the city of Dubno. Commissioned as an officer upon graduation from the Kiev Military School in 1913 (1912) in the 3rd Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk, he transferred to the 6th Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk upon its departure for the front in February 1915. On the Southwestern (Russian) front of the First World War, he commanded the machine-gun detachment of an armored train and was appointed commander of the armored car "Zaamurets" in June 1916. Following this, Dobkevich served with the 1st Zaamurskii Zheleznodorozhnyi polk until his demobilization in 1918.
In April 1918, he was appointed deputy commander of the engineering section of the Russian forces of the extraterritorial zone of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and thereafter served in various capacities, including commander of an armored train, along the Chinese Eastern Railway until 1920. He emigrated to the United States in 1922, and died in California in January 1973.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of A. A. Dobkevich relate primarily to his service in the First World War and Russian Civil War (in Ataman B. V. Annenkov's unit, on an armored train, and in the security forces of the Chinese Eastern Railway). The collection also includes a few family photographs, and his father's (Lt. Colonel A. F. Dobkevich) military service record (1914).
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
Russia. Armii͡a
Chinese Eastern Railway

 

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1898-1923

reel 1

Birth certificate

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 1
reel 1

Educational records

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 2.
 

Family file

reel 1

Dobkevich, Anton Frantsevich

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 3.
reel 1

Dobkevich, Viktoriia Viktorovna

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 4.
reel 1

Identity certificate

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 5.
 

Military service records

Scope and Contents note

Includes orders, passes, commendations and similar matter
reel 1

General

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 6. Brief service records
reel 1

1907-1917

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 7.
reel 1

Field order books and notes 1915 April-May

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 8.
reel 1

1918-1922

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 9.
reel 1

Miscellany

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 10.
 

CORRESPONDENCE 1915-1923

reel 1

General 1923

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 11.
reel 1

Unidentified undated

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 12.
reel 1

Dobkevich, Viktoriia Viktorovna 1915-1919

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 13.
reel 1

Ignat'ev, Iosif Georgievich 1923

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 14.
 

MISCELLANY [1910s]

reel 1

Diagram of an armored train

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 15.
reel 1

Field maps, Russian front, World War One

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 16.
 

PHOTOGRAPHS 1910s-1922

reel 1

10 prints depicting A. A. Dobkevich and family members

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 17.
reel 1

3 prints depicting scenes of World War One

Scope and Contents note

Museum of Russian Culture Box/folder 1 : 18.