Register of the Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff papers
Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova
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Title: Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff papers
Date (bulk): 1870-1977
Collection Number: 77014
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Russian
Physical Description:
7 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 card box, 1 scrapbook
(6.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian nobility, the Romanov dynasty,
the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and Soviet-American relations during the 1960s and 1970s.
Creator:
Tatistcheff, Alexis Borisovich, 1903-1990
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Access
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or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Biographical / Historical
Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff, an economist and language expert who served as an interpreter for the State Department.
Mr. Tatistcheff, who was born in Berlin, where his father served in the Russian Embassy, was educated at the Ecole des Travaux
Publiques in Paris and came to the United States in 1926.
Mr. Tatistcheff was chief statistician at the Commodity Exchange and in 1941 was named principal economist in the Federal
Bureau of Research and Statistics in the Office of Production Management, later known as the War Production Board. His linguistic
abilities - he was fluent in French, Russian and English - came to the attention of the State Department, and in 1945 he served
as an interpreter at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco.
Helped Marshall in London.
Mr. Tatistcheff was named assistant chief of the division of language service for the State Department and was an interpreter
with Secretary of State George C. Marshall at the London Conferences in 1947. Then he joined the Merrill Lynch investment
concern as manager of its hide and rubber department, but after a year he left to become a consultant to the State Department.
In 1975 Mr. Tatistcheff was chief interpreter and adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in negotiations
for a joint Soviet-United States space flight. For his work with NASA, he received the Government's Public Service Award.
From 1976 to 1979, he was an interpreter for the United States delegations at the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks in
Helsinki and Geneva.
Died in 1990.
Scope and Contents
Collection consist primarily of materials collected by Alexis Borisovich Tatistcheff and includes memoirs, original documents,
photographs, correspondence, clippings, and print materials, providing information on the history of the Tatistcheff and
other families relating to the Russian nobility. The Alexis.B. Tatistcheff papers also document his long career as an economist
and language expert who served as an interpreter for the State Department.
Arrangement Statement
The collection arranged by the creator himself, and pasted to album sheets. Scrapbooks and albums have been unbound for preservation
purposes.
The collection is organized into six series: Tatistcheff family file, Obolenskii family file, Correspondence, Career file,
Writings, and Printed matter.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917
Russia -- Court and courtiers
Nobility -- Russia
Romanov, House of
Obolensky family
Tatishchev family
Tatistcheff (Tatishchev) family file
1878-1925
Scope and Contents
Memoirs, notes, photo albums, and scrapbooks arranged by physical form.
box 1, folder 1-8
"Crossing the Field," autobiography of Alexis B. Tatistcheff (Tatishchev),1903-1963, typed manuscript, twelve volumes
1963
box 2, folder 1-9
"Crossing the Field," autobiography of Alexis B. Tatistcheff (Tatishchev),1903-1963, typed manuscript, twelve volumes
1963
box 3, folder 1-3
"Crossing the Field," autobiography of Alexis B. Tatistcheff (Tatishchev),1903-1963, typed manuscript, twelve volumes
1963
box 3, folder 4
"The Founder of the Tatistcheff (Tatishchev) Family, Vassily Yurevich (Vaslii Iur'evich), Prince Solomerskiy (Solomerskii),
niknamed Tat-Istch," genealogy notes, , typed manuscript on English
undated
box 3, folder 5-8
"The Tatistcheffs (Tatishchevs). History of a Family from 862 to 1949," by A. B. Tatistcheff (Tatishchev),typed manuscript
in English, five volumes,
1976
Scope and Contents
Includes family photographs
box 4, folder 1-3
"Na rubezhe dvukh mirov," memorirs of Boris Alexeyevich Tatistcheff (Boris Alekseevich Tatishchev), (father), 1876-1946, typed
manuscript in Russian, one volume
1946
box 4, folder 4
"Reminiscences of Ekaterina Borisovna Tatistcheff (Ekaterina Borisovna Tatishchev), born Princess Mestcherskaia, my grandmother,
1848-1933, " typed manuscript in Russian, one volume
1933
box 4, folder 5
"Zapiski Kniagini Marii Sergeevny Trubetskoi, ur. Lopukhinoi (Lopukhinoi)," (mother-In-law), typed manuscript in Russian
1919
box 4, folder 6
"Brief Histories of Some Russian Families Closely Related to the Tatistcheff (Tatishchev) Family," by A. B. Tatistcheff (Tatishchev).
Typed manuscript in English
1977
box 8
Tatistcheffs (Tatishchev) family album
1878-1925
box 8
Tatishcheva (nee Bibikova), Varvara Mikhaïlovna (mother) photo album
1885-1899
box 4, folder 7-9
"The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his court, military parades and exercises, Imperial hunting expeditions, etc.," photographs
by Michael Alexis Tatistcheff (Mikhail Alekseevich Tatishchev)
1870-1913
box 11
Matrices for use in impressing the seal of Tatistcheff (Tatishchev) family on the metal buttons of the domestic male servants,
two objects
box 11
Seal of the Tatitscheff (Tatishchev) family, one object
box 5, folder 1-31
"Documents pertaining to my father, Boris Alexeyevich Tatistcheff (Boris Alekseevich Tatishchev),"
1896-1966
box 12
"Album of Illustrations Pertaining to My Father's Voyage to France with the Tsar Nicholas II." Also contains some of my own
and his pre-revolutionary Russian diplomatic passports and my family memorabilia,"
1901
Physical Description: No physical box; scrapbook on shelf.
Obolensky (Obolenskii) Family file
1853-1971
box 5, folder 32
"The Family of Princes Obolensky" (Obolenskii)," by Alexis B. Tatistcheff (Tatishchev),
1971
box 9
"Diaries of Prince Dimitriy Alexandrovich Obolensky (Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Obolenskii), my great grandfather, 1853-1879,"
typed manuscript in Russian, four volumes
1853-1879
box 10
"Diaries of Prince Dimitriy Alexandrovich Obolensky (Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Obolenskii), my great grandfather, 1853-1879,"
typed manuscript in Russian, four volumes
1853-1879
box 5, folder 35
Allilueva, Svetlana
1968-1973
box 5, folder 40
Korovaev, Petr Trofimovich
1972
box 5, folder 41
Novoe Russkoe Slovo
1955-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings
box 5, folder 42
Rakovskii, Mikhail Evgen'evich
1977
box 5, folder 43
Tatistcheff (Tatishchev), Boris A.
1976
box 5, folder 44-45
Tiesenpausen, Andrei Dmitrievich, de
1964-1976
box 5, folder 46-47
Titorenko, Irina
1974-1977
box 6, folder 1
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia
1976
box 6, folder 2
Archbishop Vitalii,
1947-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes other materials on Russian Orthodox Church abroad.
box 6, folder 3
A. B. Tatistcheff's (Tatishchev's) appointment as a Chief Statistician of the Commodity Exchange, Inc.
1941
box 6, folder 4-7
"Documents Pertaining to FBI and CIA Investigations in Connection with My Security Clearances for Service in the US Federal
Government and the United Nations, Annotated by Me," by A. B. Tatitscheff (A. B. Tatishchev), two volumes
1941-1961
Correspondence
1964 -1976
Scope and Contents
Includes reports and memoranda.
box 6, folder 12
Fullbright, William J.
1968
box 6, folder 14
Leon, Theodor H.,
1965-1970
box 6, folder 15
Lunney, Glynn S.,
1972-1975
box 6, folder 17
Miscellaneous documents pertaining to the United Nations activities in the former Belgian Congo,
1961-1965
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, reports, and clippings.
box 6, folder 18-21
Reports by A. B. Tatitscheff (Tatishchev) to the US Department of State on various assignments as escort interpreter
1964-1975
box 7, folder 1-4
Reports by A. B. Tatitscheff (Tatishchev) to the US Department of State on various assignments as escort interpreter
1964-1975
Writings
1962-1975
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
box 7, folder 5
"The Origins of the Rurikovichi: A Historical Essay," typescript in English,
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes genealogical tables.
box 7, folder 6
"Secret Agent," typed manuscript in English
1962-1965
box 7, folder 7-10
"Tatizdat," unpublished articles, letters, etc. on various subjects, taped manuscripts in English and in Russian with some
illustrations, three volumes,
1971-1975
box 7, folder 11
"An Interesting Assignment," with illustrations, typed manuscript in English,
1972
Printed matter
1768-1915
Separated Materials
The issues of the following publications from boxes 2-3 and 11-12 have been separated from the collection to the Hoover Institution
Library collection. Records for the material can be found through the Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/
Svod' Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii (Laws of the Russian Empire), edition, in Russian, two volumes
1900
Bozherianov, Ivan Nikolaevich,
Zhizneopisanie Imperatritsy Aleksadry Feodorovny suprugi Imperatora Nikolaia I, St. Peterburg
1898
Dubenskii, D. M.,
Ego Imperatorskoe Velichestvo Gosudar' Imperator" Nikolai Aleksandrovich" v" diestvuiushchei armii, Sentiabr'-Oktiabr' 1914
g.
, Petrograd"
1915
Glinskoi, B. B.,
Tsarskiia dieti i ikh" nastavniki, Tsars' , St. Petersburg
1913
Shashkovskii, A. P.,
Ves' Peterburg" na 1913 god". Adresnaia i cpravochnaia kniga G. S.- Peterburga,
1913
Silvestre, Armand,
La Russie, , Paris,
1892
Tatistcheff, Serguey Spiridonovich (Tatishchev, Sergei Spiridonovich ),
Rod' Tatishchevykh". 1400-1900. , published in on the 500th anniversary of the present name of the family
1900
Tatistcheff (Tatishchev), Vasilii Nikitich,
Istoriia Rossiiskaia s" samykh" drevneishikh" vremen" cherez" tridtsatl" let"(History of Russia from Ancient Times),four volumes
1768-1784
