Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

The collection consists of a photograph of Sergeĭ M. Lifaŕ correspondence, a diary, manuscripts and memoirs, subject files, documents, military service records and questionnaires, membership registers of the Union of the Knights of St. George (Soi︠u︡z georgievskikh kavalerov), photographs and printed materials. The collection mostly concerns the Russian General-Military Union and the Union of the Knights of St. George. The diary is by Lev L. De-vit on the Civil War. Subject files include materials on the Union of the Knights of St. George and Major-General Ippolit V. Savit︠s︡kiĭ. Service records, military service questionnaires, membership records and photographs deal with members of both organizations. Printed materials include mimeographed bulletins of these organizations and a book listing the recipients of the Order of St. George, dated November 26, 1916.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents. photograph, subject files and printed materials of Mikhail S. Stakhevich. There are catalogued letters from Daniel D. Fedotoff-White, arranged letters to Stakhevich and later, his widow (mostly from the 1930's and 1940's), and letter drafts and carbons by Stakhevich. There are manuscripts by Stakhevich and others (including the wife of General A.A. Brusilov), some of which were written for the emigre journal "Morskoĭ zhurnal" published by Stakhevich in Prague from 1927 to 1942. The documents relate to Stakhevich's family, career and life in emigration. There is a group photograph of naval officers on the "Rossii︠a︡ with Nicholas II and Admiral Essen. The subject files concern the Imperial Navy, the Association of Former Imperial Russian Naval Officers and Stakhevich himself. The printed materials include naval communiquʹes from 1917 to 1919, clippings and a copy of "Spisok lichnago sostava sudov flota" (Petrograd, 1916).

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Most of the correspondence dates from the 1950s and early 1960s, when Boi︠a︡rint︠s︡ev was head of the Ob'edinenie chinov Kornilovskago udarnago polka, an emigre veterans' organization, and relates to the affairs of this and similar groups. The manuscripts include campaign memoirs and a memoir called, "Epokha 1937-1965 gg." dealingwith events in the world of the White veteran's groups written by Boi︠a︡rint︠s︡ev; and a memoir of the First World War by a Captain I︠A︡. G. Shinin. Official documents relating to the military service of both Boi︠a︡rint︠s︡ev and Shinin are found in the collection, as well as some regimental and army orders of the Revolution-Civil War period. There is a photograph of Genral L.G. Kornilov; a large number of photographs of the White Army encampment at Gallipoli, of the Imperial family, White officers' reunions, funerals, dedication ceremonies etc. Printed materials include: a folder of printed engravings of varied content (portraits of the Imperial family, White officers, members of the White Russian community in Shanghai; and illustrations of various incidents in the Civil War; a complete set through 1965 of the emigre newsletter "Kornilovt︠s︡y" (Nos. 1-6; 1952_65); 7 issues of the "Vestnik pervopokhodnika" (Nos. 82-91; Aug. '68-May '70); and books, pamphlets, and jubilee volumes concerning Tsar Nicholas II, the White movement, General Kornilov, and the Mladorossy.

Most of the collection dates from 1918-1940, and concerns the Civil War in Siberia and the emigration in China. There is a long manuscript by Golovachev on the Civil War. Other manuscripts include memoirs by F. Porotikov on Admiral Kolchak, and one by V. Russii︠a︡n, a former tsarist police official, attempting to prove that Stalin was a police agent. Photographs include an inscribed portrait of Lev Tolstoĭ. Subject files concern various Siberian and Far Eastern institutions and organizations, and deal with both the Civil War and the emigration. Printed materials include books, pamphlets, newspapers, and clippings, again mostly on Siberian or Far Eastern affairs, or on the law.

Correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials of Bek and her husband. Correspondence includes two letters by Anton Denikin and one by Aleksandr Kutepov. Among the manuscripts are the memoirs of Nadezhda Bek, covering the period up to the 1917 revolution. Vladimir Bek's manuscripts from the Civil War include political reports on the situation in south Russia in October 1919-February 1920, and a number of essays on Civil War topics (such as the White propanganda agency Osvag, and the problems of the White Army officer corps). Other materials concern the Kuban region in the Civil War. Printed materials include copies of a book of poetry published by Bek, "O russkai︠a︡ zemli︠a︡" (1944).

Typescript memoirs entitled "Un an en Persie (1917-18)" (107 p.). The memoirs describe his service with the French military mission on the Caucasian front, and his efforts to organize in Persia Russian and other units to fight Turkey after the collapse of the Russian army. Also included is a copy of Gasfeld́'s published memoirs"Pol veka" (Paris, 1950), which incorporate these memoirs.

Orders, financial records, subject files, lists and service records of the Russian Expeditionary Forces. The collection pertains almost entirely to World War I, and there are limited materials on the Civil War in Russia and the emigration in Europe. The bulk of the collection consists of service records (posluzhnye spiski) and lists of soldiers from the 1st and 2nd Special Infantry (Osobye Pekhotnye) divisions. There are reports, plans, orders and financial records concerning these units in 1916-1919, chiefly in France. Files in the Civil War largely concern the northwestern front. Other files concern courts of honor (sud chesti) both in World War I and in the 1920s. Also in the collection is a book, IU. N. Danilov "Russkie Otriady na Frantsuzskom i Makedonskom Frontakh, 1916-18 g.".

Included are texts of telegrams (1919-20) between Azerbaijan's diplomatic representatives in Armenia and their government in Baku, deciphered by Armenian military intelligence; reports (1919-20) on the military situation in the Caucasus region; and three published books on Armenians in World War I and on the "Armenian question" in general.

The manuscript memoirs (in all 248 p.) discuss Mikhaĭlov's education in Nezhin and at Kiev University; and the Revolution and Civil War in Siberia, particularly Orenburg in 1917 and later with Admiral Kolchak. Also included are third-person memoirs, prepared by Mikhaĭlov, of a police agent, E.F. Mishchuk (touching on the Belis case), and of General P.K. Popov (on Nicholas II). Printed materials include Russian picture postcards; a photograph book"Vidy Kryma" (Stockholm, n.d.); and K.I. Zaĭtsev, ed."Pushkin i ego vremi︠a︡" (Harbin, 1938).

The bulk of the papers consists of Klementév's manuscript memoirs (250 p.), which deal with such topics as the Civil War, Boris Savinkov and the Soi︠u︡z Zashchity from the 1920s, Flegont Klepikov and Leonid Shesheni︠a︡ (with a photograph of the latter); and a volume of essays on the Soviet secret police, entitled "Che-Ka" published by the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries in 1922.