Register of the Mikhail V. Alekseev papers

Finding aid prepared by Ronald Bulatoff
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Title: Mikhail V. Alekseev papers
Date (inclusive): 1905-1956
Collection Number: 77066
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 1 manuscript box, 1 envelope (0.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, memoranda, reports, military orders, and photographs, relating to Russian military activities during the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the Russian Civil War, and especially to the organization of the Dobrovol'cheskaia Armiia. Includes some posthumous biographical material
Creator: Alekseev, Mikhail Vasilʹevich, 1857-1918

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Mikhail V. Alekseev Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1857 Born
1876 Graduated from the Moscow Military Cadet School
1877-78 Fought in the Turkish War
1904 Promoted to General
1904-05 Director of Operations of the II Army during the Russo-Japanese War
1912 Commander of the XII Army Corps
1914 Chief of Staff of the Southwestern Front in Galicia
1915 Commander-in-Chief of the Northwestern Front
1915-17 Chief of Staff for the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Nicholas II
1917 Military adviser to the Russian Provisional Government Organized the Volunteer Army
1918 Participated in the First Kuban Campaign (Icy March) Died, Ekaterinodar

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Officers
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
Russia. Armii͡a
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, II, 1868-1918
Kornilov, Lavr Georgievich, 1870-1918
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Dobrovolʹcheskai͡a armii͡a. Kornilovskiĭ polk

 

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1918-1956

box 1, folder 1

Denikin, General Anton, memorandum on General Alekseev's death, September 25, 1918

box 1, folder 2

Kirilin, F., Osnovatel' i Vekhovnyi Rukovoditel' Dobrovol'cheskoi Armii General M. V. Alekseev, Rostov na Donu, 1919

box 1, folder 3

Orlov, G., "General M. V. Alekseev - K Tridtsatipiatiletiiu Osnovaniia Dobrovol'cheskoi Armii," Bern, 1952

box 1, folder 4

Untitled article in defense of General Alekseev and in response to a slanderous article published in Nasha Strana, No. 339, July 1956. In Russian.

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1916-18

box 1, folder 5

"Tri Nedeli (22 avgusta - 14 sentiabria 1917)," n.d. Holograph (photocopy).

box 1, folder 6

"Dokladnaia Zapiska Generala Alekseeva Imperatoru Nikolaiu Vtoromu," June 25, 1916. Typewritten copy.

box 1, folder 7

Kornilov, Lavr, note concerning, September 1, 1917. Typewritten copy. In Russian.

box 1, folder 8

Summary of discussions with officers who arrived at the Don River for battle with the Bolsheviks, November 1917, Novocherkassk. Typewritten copy. In Russian.

box 1, folder 9

"Nekotorye Zametki i Pis'ma Posle Moego Otchisleniia ot Komandovaniia," 1918. Printed copy with photocopies of handwritten attachments.

 

CORRESPONDENCE, 1916-18

box 1, folder 10

Barther, General, 1917

box 1, folder 11

Denikin, Anton, 1918

box 1, folder 12

Denikin, Anton, letter to E. F. El'sner, 1918

box 1, folder 13

Fedorov, Mikhail; Struve, Petr; Trubetskoi, Prince; 1918

box 1, folder 14

Kornilov, Lavr, 1918

box 1, folder 15

Lodyzhenskii, A. A., letter to Alexander F. Kerensky, 1917

box 1, folder 16

Nicholas II, 1916

box 1, folder 17

Voiskovoi Ataman, Novocherkassk, 1918

box 1, folder 18

Voiskovoi Ataman Vsevelikogo Voiska Donskogo, 1918

box 1, folder 19

Miscellaneous, 1917

 

SUBJECT FILE, 1905-1918

 

Russia - History - Revolution and Civil War

box 1, folder 20

General

Scope and Contents

Page 11 of document missing.
box 1, folder 21

Georgia, report on meeting with representatives of, September 12, 1918. In Russian.

box 1, folder 22

Moscow, military and political conditions, report on, by Colonel Novosil'tsev, June 1918. In Russian.

box 1, folder 23

War Minister Savinkov in Mogilev, August 24-25, 1917, and General Lavr Kornilov

box 1, folder 24

Russo-Japanese War, 1905-06

box 1, folder 25

Stavropol', report on, n.d. In Russian.

box 1, folder 26

World War I, Russian military campaigns, 1915

envelope A

Photographs

Scope and Contents note

See photo catalog for description