Register of the Sergei Aleksandrovich Golovan papers

Finding aid prepared by Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Stanford University

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Title: Sergei Aleksandrovich Golovan papers

Date (inclusive): 1919-1921

Collection Number: 28005

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Russian

Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (3.8 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, military orders, communiqués, and clippings, relating to the Russian Civil War, and White Russian military relations with Switzerland.

Creator: Golovan, Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1928.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Sergei Aleksandrovich Golovan Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains material from the office of Maj.-Gen. Sergei Golovan, head of the Rossiiskaia Voennaia Agentura v Shveitsarii (Russian Military Agency in Switzerland). It covers the period 1919-1921 and includes correspondence, orders, and operational, political and intelligence reports received from various White Russian offices and officials, including the headquarters of the Vooruzhennyia Sily Iuga Rossii (VSIUR) (Armed Forces of South Russia) and the Voennyi Predstavitel' Verkhovnago Pravitelia pri Soiuznykh Pravitel'stvakh I Soiuznom Verkhovnom Komandovanii (Military Representative of the Supreme Ruler to the Allied Governments and Allied Supreme Command). Most of this material is related to Russian military personnel residing or passing through Switzerland and especially to sick and invalid former prisoners of war in Swiss sanatoria.

Also included are proclamations and other official publications of VSIUR and a collection of clippings from the Russian, Swiss, and British press.

This collection was first arranged by Lieut.-Gen. Nikolai Golovin and the present register fully retains this arrangement, in which the material is divided numerically into files.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921

Russians -- Switzerland

Military attachés

ROSSIISKAIA VOENNAIA AGENTURA V SHVEITSARII 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Correspondence with various White Russian offices and officials, especially the office of Gen. Dmitrii Shcherbachev in Paris and the headquarters of VSIUR (Vooruzhennyia Sily Iuga Rossii), orders, reports, information bulletins, miscellaneous material re military personnel and former Russian prisoners of war residing in Switzerland, bound clippings from Swiss, English, and Russian press. Arranged by file number and therein by physical form

File 1. Orders and official operational, political, and intelligence reports received by the Rossiiskaia Voennaia Agentura v SHveitsarii from General D. Shcherbachev, Voennyi Predstavitel' Verkhovnago Pravitelia pri Soiuznykh Pravitel'stvakh I Soiuznom Verkhovnom Komandovanii 1919

box 1, folder 1

Original binding cover describing material included in file

box 1, folder 2

Orders 1919 September-November

Reports 1919

box 1, folder 3

October

box 1, folder 4-5

November

box 1, folder 6

December

box 1, folder 7

Telegrams 1919 October-November

box 1, folder 8

File 2. Miscellaneous orders received from Voennyi Predstavitel' Glavnokomanduiushchago Russkoi Armii Pri Pravitel'stve Frantsuzskoi Respubliki 1920

box 1, folder 9

File 3. Printed information bulletins issued by the Omsk Government re military matters and relations with foreign governments 1919

box 1, folder 10

File 4. News bulletins issued by the Biuro Russkoi Pechati v Konstantinopole 1921

box 1, folder 11-13

File 5. Orders and correspondence re recruitment of military personnel for White Armies 1919-1920

File 6. Russian military personnel in Switzerland 1919-1920

box 1, folder 14

Original binding cover describing material included in file

box 1, folder 15

Alphabetical listing of resident military personnel

box 1, folder 16-18

Correspondence re military personnel in Switzerland

box 2, folder 1-4

File 7. Miscellaneous office correspondence with other Russian military missions, institutions, and organizations, especially re military personnel 1919

box 2, folder 5-6

File 8. Same as above 1919-1920

box 2, folder 7-8

File 9. Correspondence with General D. Shcherbachev, Lieut.-General Nikolai Monkevich, Glavnoupolnomochennyi Glavnokomanduiushchago Vooruzhennymi Silami Iuga Rossii, and other military missions, mostly re recruitment of military personnel 1919-1920

File 10

box 2, folder 9

Original binding cover describing material included in file

box 2, folder 10

General. Official orders of VSIUR headquarters and reports of Otdel Propagandy Pri VSIUR

box 2, folder 11-14

News bulletins, Biuro Russkoi Pechati v Konstantinopole 1920

box 3, folder 1-2

File 11. Information reports, bulletins, and official orders issued by VSIUR 1920

File 12 1920

box 3, folder 3

Original binding cover describing material included in file

box 3, folder 4

Reports re situation in Germany received from the Russkaia Delegatsiia po Delam Voennoplennykh I Bezhentsev v Germanii

box 3, folder 5

Summaries of European and Soviet press

box 3, folder 6-7

File 13. Operations telegrams from the British War Office re situation on Russian fronts 1920-1921

File 14

box 3, folder 8

Original binding cover describing material included in file

Correspondence with private individuals

box 3, folder 9-10

1919

box 3, folder 11

1920

box 3, folder 12

Orders issued by VSIUR and other official communications. Includes Bainbridge Colby's note on U.S.-Russian relations

box 3, folder 13-14

File 15. Correspondence re care in Swiss sanatoria of sick and invalid former Russian prisoners of war and their repatriation and reports re condition, political mood, and Soviet influence on former prisoners of war. Includes correspondence of Société de la Croix-Rouge de Russie, Bureau de Secours aux Prisonniers de Guerre, Section Russe, Berne 1919-1920

box 4, folder 1-3

File 16. Operational, political, and intelligence reports received by the Rossiiskaia Voennaia Agentura v SHveitsarii from General D. Shcherbachev, Voennyi Predstavitel' Verkhovnago Pravitelia pri Soiuznykh Pravitel'stvakh I Soiuznom Verkhovnom Komandovanii 1919

box 4, folder 4-7

File 17. Same as above 1919 December-1920 March

box 4, folder 8-10

File 18. Same as above 1920 March-September

box 5, folder 1-3

File 19. Same as above 1920 September-December

File 20, See also OVERSIZE FILE 1919.

box 5, folder 4

Original binding cover describing material included in file

box 5, folder 5

Orders issued by British commander, Maj.-Gen. H. C. Holman to British Military Mission, South Russia

Reports

box 5, folder 6

Dezhurnyi General Shtaba (military court decisions)

box 5, folder 7

Morskoe Upravlenie VSIUR (complement of ships in the White fleet

box 5, folder 8

Osobaia Kommissiia po Razsledovaniiu Zlodeianii Bol'shevikov, Sostoiashchaia pri Glavnokomanduiushchem VSIUR

File 21. Office of the Rossiiskaia Voennaia Agentura v Shveitsarii. Correspondence

box 5, folder 9

Original binding cover describing material included in file

Russian government agencies

box 5, folder 10

1918

box 5, folder 11

1919

box 5, folder 12

1920

box 5, folder 13

Swiss officials and Allied representatives

box 6

File 22. Bound clippings from Swiss, British, and Russian press 1919

box 7

File 22. Bound clippings from Swiss, British, and Russian press

box 8

File 22. Bound clippings from Swiss, British, and Russian press

OVERSIZE FILE 1919-1920.

Scope and Contents

Proclamations under the signature of Gen. Aleksei Denikin and reports of VSIUR General Staff

General note

Includes oversize material from File 20

box 9, folder 1

Proclamations under signature of Lieut.-Gen. Aleksei Denikin

Reports (operational, political, and intelligence) issued by the Shtab Glavnokomanduiushchago VSIUR

box 9, folder 2-3

General

box 9, folder 4

Leaflets