Register of the Gerua collection

Finding aid prepared by Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop
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Title: Gerua collection
Date (inclusive): 1906-1920
Collection Number: 25003
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 11 manuscript boxes (4.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, communiques, and printed matter, relating to White Russian military activities in northern Russia during the Russian Revolution, and to White Russian liaison with the British War Office. Consists mainly of records of the White Russian special military mission to Great Britain from 1919 to 1920. Includes some papers of Boris V. Gerua, head of the mission.
Creator: Gerua, Boris Vladimirovich, 1876-1942
Creator: Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Spet͡sial'nai͡a Voennai͡a Missii͡a (Great Britain)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1971.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Gerua Collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Historical Note

The Spetsial'naia Voennaia Missiia Shtaba Verhkovnago Glavnokomanduiushchago v Londone (Special Military Mission of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief in London) was established in 1919 by Gen. Nikolai IUdenich under the direction Major-Gen. Boris Gerua (Heroys). The purpose of the mission was to obtain from the British government financial support,supplies, transportation and equipment for Russian troops joining the Army of the North-West. The mission was dissolved in 1920.

Biographical Note

1876 Born, St. Petersburg
1904 Graduates Pazheskii Korpus and Nikolaevskaia Akademiia General'nago Shtaba
1904-1905 Participates in the Russo-Japanese War
1912 Appointed professor of tactics at the Nikolaevskaia Akademiia General'nago Shtaba
1914 Fights on the Galician Front
1915 Appointed commander of the Leib-gvardii Izmailovskii Polk
1917 May Appointed Chief of Staff of the 11th Army
1917 August Arrested on orders of Kerensky for participation in the Kornilov affair
1918 Escapes to Finland and is sent to Great Britain by Gen. Nikolai IUdenich as head of the Spetsial'naia Voennaia Missiia Shtaba Verhkovnago Glavnokomanduiushchago v Londone
1920 After the liquidation of the mission, continues to reside in Great Britain. Takes part in emigré organizations, publishes memoirs and other works, continues his artistic activities and interests
1942 Dies, Coulton-St. Mary, Devon, England

Scope and Content Note

The collection includes an extensive correspondence between various White Russian offices and officials, especially related to military operations on the North-Western and Petrograd fronts. Copies of this correspondence sent to the mission are to be found in the OFFICE FILE series. It also includes numerous reports on the political situation in Europe especially as related to the White Russsian cause, found in the OFFICE and PRESS FILE series.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Officers
Russians -- Great Britain
Russia. Armii͡a
Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolayevich, 1862-1933
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Armii͡a

 

BORIS VLADIMIROVICH GERUA FILE 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Official correspondence under his signature as head of the Spetsial'naia Voennaia Missiia Shtaba Verhkovnago Glavnokomanduiushchago v Londone, personal correspondence and a report re his personal experiences in the Soviet Union, arranged by physical form and therein chronologically.
 

Correspondence

 

Official

 

Incoming 1919

 

General

box 1, folder 1

Undated-August

box 1, folder 2

September-October

box 1, folder 3

November-December

box 1, folder 4

Iudenich, Nikolai

 

Outgoing

 

General

 

1919

box 1, folder 5

Undated-May

box 1, folder 6

July

box 1, folder 7

August

box 1, folder 8

September-October

box 1, folder 9

November-December

box 1, folder 10

1920

box 1, folder 11

Churchill, Winston

 

IUdenich, Nikolai, Includes reports 1919.

box 1, folder 12

Undated-August

box 1, folder 13

September-December

 

Personal. Incoming

box 1, folder 14

Unidated-April 1919

box 1, folder 15

May 1919-1920

box 1, folder 16-17

Miscellany. Includes drafts, unidentified writings and personal papers

 

Reports

box 1, folder 18

General. Includes caricatures of Russian political figures

box 1, folder 19

Personal experiences in the Soviet Union

 

OFFICE FILE 1919-1920.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence both of the Spetsial'naia Voennaia Missiia Shtaba Verhkovnago Glavnokomanduiushchago v Londone and copies of correspondence received by the mission from other offices and officials of the White governments, material related to relations with the British government, reports re the political situation in various European countries especially as related to the position of Russian refugees and the Russian Armies, arranged by physical form and therein alphabetically.
box 2, folder 1

Agreement between the ARA and the Provisional Government of Russia 1919 July

 

Correspondence. Includes both correspondence of the Spetsial'naia Missiia and copies of correspondence of other Provisional Government offices and officials

 

General. Incoming telegrams, arranged by city of origin

box 2, folder 2

Arkhangel'sk

box 2, folder 3

Athens

box 2, folder 4

Belgrade

box 2, folder 5

Berlin

box 2, folder 6

Constantinople

box 2, folder 7

Copenhagen. Includes correspondence of Sergei Pototskii

box 2, folder 8

Ekaterinodar

box 2, folder 9

Hague

box 2, folder 10

Helsingfors (Helsinki)

 

London

box 2, folder 11

General

box 2, folder 12

Golovin, Nikolai

box 2, folder 13

Kholmnsen, Ivan

box 2, folder 14

Malta

 

Omsk

box 2, folder 15

General

box 2, folder 16

Sukin, Ivan to Sergei Sazonov

 

Paris

box 2, folder 17

Undated

box 2, folder 18

January-April

box 2, folder 19

May-June

box 2, folder 20

July

box 2, folder 21

August-November

box 2, folder 22

Prague

box 2, folder 23

Revel

box 2, folder 24

Rome

 

Stockholm. Includes correspondence of Dmitrii Kandaurov

box 2, folder 25

January-April

box 2, folder 26

May

box 2, folder 27

June-July

box 2, folder 28

August-December

box 2, folder 29

Taganrog

box 2, folder 30

Teheran

box 2, folder 31

Tokyo

box 2, folder 32

Washington

box 2, folder 33

American Mission in Paris

box 2, folder 34

Cowan, Walter to Nikolai IUdenich

 

Gardner, Daniel

box 3, folder 1

Incoming

box 3, folder 2

Outgoing. Includes reports

box 3, folder 3

Gough, Hubert to Nikolai IUdenich

 

Great Britain

 

General. Translations of memoranda, reports and correspondence made available to the British government by Russian representatives in London

box 3, folder 4

Undated-May

box 3, folder 5

June-November

 

War Office

 

Incoming

box 3, folder 6

March-August

box 3, folder 7

September-October

box 3, folder 8

November-December

 

Outgoing

box 3, folder 9

Undated-August

box 3, folder 10

September-October

box 3, folder 11

November-December

box 3, folder 12

Guchkov, Aleksandr. Includes letter to Winston Churchill

 

IUdenich, Nikolai

box 3, folder 13

Incoming

 

Outgoing

box 3, folder 14

General

box 3, folder 15

Churchill, Winston 1920 January

 

Journals of correspondence

box 3, folder 16-17

Incoming

box 3, folder 18

Outgoing

box 4, folder 1

Official orders of Russian government establishing the special military mission in Great Britain

box 4, folder 2

Personnel file

box 4, folder 3

Publicity and propaganda file

 

Record of material received

box 4, folder 4

Encoded telegrams

box 4, folder 5

Secret documents

 

Reports

box 4, folder 6

General

box 4, folder 7-8

Baltic region

box 4, folder 9

Denmark

box 4, folder 10

Estonia

box 4, folder 11-12

Finland

box 4, folder 13

Germany

box 4, folder 14

Italy

box 4, folder 15

Latvia

box 4, folder 16

Lithuania

box 4, folder 17

Poland

box 4, folder 18

Soviet Union

box 4, folder 19

Sweden

box 4, folder 20

Ukraine

box 4, folder 21

United States

 

FINANCIAL RECORDS FILE 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Correspondence related to efforts by the Spetsial'naia Voennaia Missiia Shtaba Verhkovnago Glavnokomanduiushchago v Londone to receive financial aid and supplies from the British government for Gen. Nikolai IUdenich's Army of the North-West, and includes financial papers related to the financing of the London office, arranged by subject and therein by physical form.
 

General

 

Correspondence

box 5, folder 1

General

 

Gerua, Boris

box 5, folder 2

Incoming

box 5, folder 3

Outgoing

box 5, folder 4

IUdenich, Nikolai

box 5, folder 5

List of correspondence

box 5, folder 6

Receipts and disbursements

 

Financing of London office

box 5, folder 7

General

box 5, folder 8

Disbursements. Notebooks

box 5, folder 9

Receipts

 

MILITARY OPERATIONS FILE 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Dispatches and telegrams re troop movements, maps, orders, operational reports and Soviet and Russian wireles reports transcribed by the British War Office, arranged by physical form and therein by subject.
 

Dispatches, situation reports and telegrams re troop movements and military operations

box 5, folder 10

General

box 5, folder 11

Arkhangel'sk front

box 5, folder 12

North-Western front and Petrograd region

box 5, folder 13

Siberian front

box 5, folder 14

Southern front

box 5, folder 15-16

Maps

box 5, folder 17

Orders - Army of the North-West

 

Reports

 

General

box 5, folder 18

General

 

Soviet Union

box 5, folder 19

Army - Strategic position and strength on various fronts

box 5, folder 20

Navy

 

Operational reports (by military fronts)

box 6, folder 1

General

box 6, folder 2-3

North-West

 

Petrograd

box 6, folder 4

Condition of civilian population

box 6, folder 5

Strategic situation

box 6, folder 6

South Russia. Includes some correspondence

 

Wireless radio reports transcribed and translated by the British War Office

 

Moscow. Field headquarters of the Revolutionary Military Soviet of the Republic

box 6, folder 7

No. 3-884

box 6, folder 8

No. 2533-2789

box 6, folder 9

No. 2815-3063

box 6, folder 10-11

Nikolaev. Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in South Russia

box 6, folder 12

Riga

 

MILITARY PERSONNEL FILE 1919-1920.

Scope and Contents note

Material related to the recruitment of personnel for the White armies, and especially IUdenich's Army of the North-West. Includes reports re Russian prisoners of war, applications of Russian and foreign volunteers, and correspondence re transfer and supply of troops.
 

General. Correspondence

 

General

box 6, folder 13

Unitdate-September 1919

box 6, folder 14

October 1919-January 1920

box 6, folder 15

Gerua, Boris

box 6, folder 16-17

Individual applications. Includes that of Arkadii Borman

box 7

Recruitment of military personnel

 

General. Correspondence and reports re Russian officers abroad and former prisoners of war

box 7, folder 1-2

General

box 7, folder 3

Newmarket Camp

 

Foreigners

 

General

box 7, folder 4

General. Includes contract document for foreign volunteers

box 7, folder 5

British volunteers. Includes list of British personnel with Russian Detachment

box 7, folder 6

Belosel'skii-Belozerskii, Sergei. Miscellaneous material related to his recruiting activities

box 7, folder 7

Supply and organization of military units

box 7, folder 8

Transfer of troops from the Army of IUdenich to the Army of the South December 1919-March 1920

 

PRESS FILE 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Clippings and single issues of newspapers, pamphlets, summaries and excerpts from the foreign press related to the White cause, arranged by physical form and therein by subject.
box 7, folder 9

Bulletins. "Union", Bureau de la Presse Russe

 

Newspaper file

 

General

box 7, folder 10

La cause commune 1919 July and 1920 March

box 7, folder 11

Russkaia Zhizn', July 1919 May-

box 7, folder 12

Russkoe Delo 1919 April

box 7, folder 13

Severnaia Zhizn' 1919 January

 

Clippings

box 7, folder 14

British

box 7, folder 15

French

 

Summaries and excerpts from foreign press

box 8, folder 1

Great Britain

box 8, folder 2

Estonia

box 8, folder 3-6

Denmark

box 8, folder 7

Finland

box 8, folder 8

France

box 8, folder 9

Soviet Union

box 8, folder 10

Sweden. Includes Russkii Kurier

 

Pamphlets

box 8, folder 11

Kratkaia zapiska o vozniknovenii Severnago Korpusa I dal'neishei ego boevoi deiatel'nosti 1918 November

box 8, folder 12

The German-Bolshevik Conspiracy, The Committee on Public Information 1918 October

box 8, folder 13

Golos vserossiiskoi vlasti, Helsingfors 1919

box 8, folder 14

The Russian Commonwealth 1919 April

box 8, folder 15

Zemlia--Daiushchim Khleb, Moscow 1919 June

 

SUPPLY FILE 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Correspondence related to the problem of supplying the Army of the North-West, arranged by physical form and therein by subject.
 

Correspondence

 

General 1919

box 8, folder 16

Undated-August

box 8, folder 17

September-October

box 8, folder 18

November-December

 

British War Office. See OFFICE FILE, Correspondence

box 8, folder 19

Commercial supply firms

 

Gardner, Daniel. See OFFICE FILE, Correspondence

 

Reports

 

General

box 9, folder 1

General

box 9, folder 2

Supply of occupied territories and Petrograd

 

Supplies

box 9, folder 3-4

Received

box 9, folder 5

Requested

box 9, folder 6

Transportation file - Olga (ship)

 

SUBJECT FILE 1906-1920

Scope and Contents

Printed matter related to the election laws and elections to the the Russian Duma, 1906-1917, and to reform in local government proposed by the Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del, 1917, and miscellaneous material related to various emigré political organizations, arranged by subject.
box 9, folder 7

Conférence Politique Russe, Letter under signature of S. Sazonov et al. to Peace Conference 1919 March.

box 9, folder 8

Kornilov, Lavr. Report, "Glumlenie bol'shevikov nad telom ubitago generala Kornilova"

box 9, folder 9

Ligue Française de l'Enseignement. Speech by Boris Savinkov

box 9, folder 10

Rossiiskoe Obshchestvo Krasnago Kresta. Miscellany

 

Russia

box 9, folder 11-18

Gosudarstvennaia Duma, Includes, "Proekt polozheniia o vyborakh v Uchreditel'noe Sobranie", "Polozhenie o vyborakh v Gosudarstvennuiu Dumu", "Stat'i proekta postanovleniia vremennago pravitel'stva o vyborakh v Uchreditel'noe Sobranie" and other documents related to election laws and the election process in Russia 1906-1917.

box 10, folder 1-4

Gosudarstvennaia Duma 1906-1917

box 10, folder 5-17

Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del, "Spravochnyi listok soveshchaniia po reforme mestnago samoupravleniia i upravleniia obrazovannago pri Ministerstve Vnutrennikh Del" 1917 April 13-November 7,

box 11, folder 1

Russia (Territory under White Armies, Vremennoe Rossiiskoe Pravitel'stvo (Kolchak). Declaration, 1919 April 1918-1920)

 

Russian Liberation Committee

box 11, folder 2

General. Background information

box 11, folder 3

Bulletins 1919 March-August

box 11, folder 4

Information leaflets

box 11, folder 5

Russskii Kruzhok v Londone. Miscellany