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The bulk of the collection consists of memoirs and manuscripts on historical military themes by Pavel Nikolaevich Chizhov. The memoirs deal with such topics as Chizhov's military education, his military service (garrison duty in Warsaw, the Far East, World War I, and the Civil War in the south), and his life in the emigration.
List of Chizhov's manuscripts: "4-yi Donskoi konnyi korpus: Gen. K. K. Mamontov" (with handmade map) "41 den' na Ellis Island" "Kavaleriiskii boi u stanitsy Sredne-Iagorlytskoi 18 II 1920 g." "Krepost' Varshava 1914 g." (with handmade map) "Manchzhurskiia vospominaniia" "Mikhailovskoe Artilleriiskoe Uchilishche" (with photographs) "Milaia Varshava" "Ochakov 1917-1918" "Otkliki revoliutsionnago dvizheniia v armii" "Pavlovsk" (with handmade map) "Po Zakavkaz'iu" (with handmade map) "Pravda o Miasoedove" "Russkie v Konstantinopole" "Sevastopol'skaia strada 1920 g." "Shtab Gen. P. N. Vrangelia v emigratsii" "V Tsarskom Sele na rubezhe 1916-17 gg." "Vospominaniia o Iugoslavii" "Znachenie i razvitie tiazheloi artillerii Rossiiskoi Armii" (with handmade map).
Also included is the photograph album of Colonel Valentina Vladimirovicha Vasenkov, officer of 120th Serpukhov Infantry Regiment, with photographs of Russian military personnel from 1910-1917.
There are also two issues of the "Za veru i vernost'", Informatsionnyi Vestnik "Bloka Monarkhicheskogo Edinstva" (Los Angeles) No.3, 1958 and No.4, 1959.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Pavel Nikolaevich Chizhov Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1954-1957.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Accessioned 1954.
Papers Processed 01/--/79.
Papers Revised 07/--/82.
May 22, 2020 PDF removed, notes revised and extended, record updated by KSD
Pavel Nikolaevich Chizhov, oficer of Russian Imperial Army, Colonel, was born on August 26, 1882 in St. Petersburg. Participated in World War I. After the October Revolution of 1917, fought in the Volunteer Army (Dobrovol'cheskaia armiia), participated in the Iassy-Don March (Drozdovsky's March). From May 1920 - in the Russian Army of General Denikin.
He was married to Colonel Aleksander Adamovich Romanus' daughter, Romanus (Polonskaia) Liudmila Aleksandrovna (she was persecuted in 1937 and died of exhaustion in the Karaganda camp in 1941), and had two children in this marriage - daughter Margarita and son Igor.
Emigrated to Yugoslavia and, after World War II, to the United States. Member of the monarchist movement. Remarried and had two daughters. He died in 1961 in Hollywood (USA).
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