Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz Records, 1916-1945

Creator:: Vserossīĭskīĭ zemskīĭ soi︠u︡z pomoshchi bolʹnym i ranenym voinam
Extent:: 3000 items 9 manuscript boxes
Language:: Russian .
Scope and content:: Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files, drawings and printed material of the Vserossiiskii zemskii soiuz (All Russian Zemstvo Union). The correspondence, spanning the years 1920-1944, is for the most part addressed to Porfirii N. Sorokin, Executive Secretary of the organization's Vremennyi glavnyi komitet (Temporary Executive Committee), the coordinating unit for all the institutions of the Zemstvo Union. The manuscripts include writings by N. I. Astrov, V. D. Kuz'min-Karavaev, and others. The documents are almost exclusively minutes of the Temporary Executive Committee's meetings from the period 1919-1924. The photographs, for the most part unidentified, are of Russian refugee settlements and White Army encampments in the area of Constantinople and Gallipoli, ca. 1921. The subject files include some financial records, and the printed material include the Vserossiiskii zemskii soiuz bulletin from 1916-1921 as well as publications about the Rossiiskii Zemsko-gorodskoi komitet and the Vserossiiskii soiuz gorodov.
Biographical / historical:: Russian social welfare organization founded in 1914 to aid wounded soldiers. During and after the Civil War it attended to the needs of the White Army and of Russian refugees in Europe.

Acquisition information:

Papers: Date of acquisition--03/--/31.

Processing information:

Papers Accessioned 03/--/31.

Papers Processed 03/--/31.

Materials were intellectually arranged in six series at the same time the finding aid was converted to EAD. Notes were revised and updated. Authorities were expanded. Nothing in the collection was physically rearranged.

Arrangement:

The collection is organized in six series.

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Rules or conventions:

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Location of originals:

Bakhmeteff Archive. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University.

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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz Records; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

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