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Title: Valerian Ivanovich Moravskii papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-1937
Collection Number: 48009
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 envelopes
(7.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, resolutions, proclamations, financial and legal records, and photographs, relating to
the Russian Civil War in Siberia, the anti-Bolshevik Siberian governments of 1918-1922, the Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives
of Organizations of Autonomous Siberia, political activities of White Russian emigres in the Far East and elsewhere, and Russian
emigre-Japanese relations.
Creator:
Moravskiĭ, V. I. (Valerian Ivanovich), 1884-1942
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 14 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1948.
[Identification of item], Valerian Ivanovich Moravskii Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Throughout this register the following abbreviation is used : C.P.R.O.A.S. for the Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives
of the Organizations of Autonomous Siberia, (Sovet Upolnomochennykh Organizatsii Avtonomnoi Sibiri).
Throughout this register correspondence is arranged by writer, and thereunder by addressee.
| 1884 | Born, Russia |
| 1905 | Graduates from a theological seminary in Bessarabia and the Institute of Agronomy in St. Petersburg. Attends the Academy of Oriental Languages in St. Petersburg |
| 1905-1906 | Member of Socialist Revolutionary Party |
| 1908-1918 | Works on staff of newspaper Rech' as head of Far Eastern section |
| 1914-1915 | Works for Ministry of Ways and Communications |
| 1916 | Joins Ministry of Agriculture |
| 1917 | Appointed head of Ministry of Food Supply in Provisional Government under Kerensky |
| 1917, Dec. | Appointed Secretary General of Siberian Provincial Council |
| 1918 | Elected State Secretary of Siberian Provincial Duma. Member of the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia. Elected to the Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Organizations of Autonomous Siberia |
| 1922 | Appointed Minister of Finance and Minister of Trade and Industry in second (non-Bolshevik) Siberian Government |
| 1922 | Emigrates to China. Lives in Shanghai and travels extensively in Manchuria and Japan |
| 1925 | Elected Vice-President of Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Organizations of Autonomous Siberia |
| 1928 | Becomes Acting President of Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives of Autonomous Siberia |
| 1942 | Dies, Shanghai, China |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Russians -- East Asia
Siberia (Provisional government, 1917-1918)
Sovet Upolnomochennykh Organizatsiĭ Avtonomnoĭ Sibiri