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Typescript and manuscript memoirs that concern Belov's military education, his service in World War I, his forcible repatriation to the Soviet Union after World War II and his subsequent experiences in Soviet concentration camps.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vladimir Dmitrievich Belov Memoirs; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1958.
Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1957.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Memoirs Accessioned 1958.
Memoirs Processed 01/--/79.
Papers Accessioned 1957.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/Belov.
2020-02-26 PDF removed. jg
2021-06-23 authorities checked, notes revised and expanded. ksd
Colonel Vladimir Dmitrievich Belov (1892 -), graduate of the Pskovskii kadetskii korpus (Pskov Cadet Corps), the Elisavetgradskoe kavaleriiskoe uchilishche (Elisavetgrad Cavalry School) and the Aleksandrovskoe pekhotnoe uchilishche (Alexandrovsky Infantry School). In 1914-1915 he commanded an armored train at the 12th Army Corps, was wounded and treated in the hospital in Petrograd, where he saw the tsarina and her older daughters, who worked there as nurses. Emigrated to Yugoslavia. In August 1944, being a member of the Russkii Okhrannyi Korpus, he was seriously wounded in battles with Tito near Kosovskaya Mitrovica and was sent to a Vienna hospital, where he became close to members of the ROA. He ended up with them in the Dachau camp and was handed over to the Soviets with them. In 1945 forcibly repatriated to the USSR, went through concentration camps. Later was released and returned to Austria.
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