Aleksei Petrovich Arkhangel'skii Papers, 1903-1959

Call No.:	BA#0016
Bib ID	4077981 View CLIO record
Creator(s)	Arkhangelʹskiĭ, Alekseĭ Petrovich, 1872-1959; Imnadze, E.S (Form subheading: Correspondence.); Kholʹmsen, Ivan Alekseevich, 1865-1941; Kondzerovskiĭ, Petr Konstanovich (Form subheading: Correspondence.); Krasnov, P. N. (Petr Nikolaevich), 1869-1947; Kusonskiĭ, P. A.; Miller, Evgeniĭ Karlovich, 1867-1939; Vitkovskiĭ, Vladimir; Vrangel', Petr Nikolaevich, Baron, 1878-1928; Denikin, Anton Ivanovich, 1872-1947
Title	Aleksei Petrovich Arkhangel'skii Papers, 1903-1959
Physical Description	2500 items (5 boxes)
Language(s)	Russian .
Additional Description	http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/ldpd_bak_4077981.pdf
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Summary

Papers of General Alekseĭ Petrovich Arkhangelśkiĭ, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, membership lists, photographs and miscellaneous printed materials. Most of the documents in the collection pertain to the activities of ROVS and its divisions and member organizations, especially its Fifth Section (Belgium), in the late 1920s and the 1930s and 1940s. The correspondence (1924-1954) is primarily between Arkhangelśkiĭ and other military officers, including A.I. Denikin, P.P.N. Krasnov, E.K. Miller, P.N. Wrangel, V.K. Vitkovskiĭ, I.A. Kholḿsen, P.A. Kusonskiĭ, P.K. Kondzerovskiĭ, E.S. Imnadze, etc. The manuscripts encompass official orders and pronouncements, information bulletins, speeches, announcements, manifestos, emigre military course instruction manuals and reports. Many of the latter deal with Soviet internal affairs and foreign policy. The collection also includes photographs, chiefly of White Army personnel in Yugoslavia in the early 1920s, miscellaneous printed materials, ROVS financial records for the period 1924-1926, various membership lists as well as 24 separate subject files, including materials on the founding of ROVS Fifth Section, ROVS activities in North America, Australia, and the Far East, the ROVS Court of Honor, the Russian Defense Corps (Russkiĭ Okhranyĭ Korpus) in Yugoslavia in World War II, the "Vnutrenni︠a︡i︠a︡ Linii︠a︡" and others.

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Former chief of the Russian Universal Military Union (Russkiĭ Obshche-Voinskiĭ Soi︠u︡z-ROVS), and a high ranking officer in the Russian Army prior to the Revolution. After the Revolution, he joined the White Army in the South. He settled in Brussels in the mid-1920s, and in 1937, after the disappearance of General Miller, Arkhangelśkiĭ assumed the latter's post as head of ROVS.

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