Sergei Grigor'evich Svatikov Papers, 1860-1950

Summary Information

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Arrangement

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in six series.

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, documents, subject files and printed materials of Sergei Grigor'evich Svatikov (1878/1880?-1942), Russian lawyer, historian, publicist, and public figure. The correspondence includes letters from Mark Aldanov, Vladimir Burtsev, Ivan Efremov, Georgii Grebenshchikov, Grigorii Lozinskii, Sergei Mel'gunov, Nikolai Rubakin, George Vernadsky and Mark Vishniak. There is a notebook that belonged to Vera Zasulich. Among the photographs are pictures of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Sergei Mel'gunov, and Aleksander Wielopolski. The manuscripts include several by Svatikov as well as many notes, lists and bibliographical compendia relating to his oeuvre. The subject files cover such areas as the Russian Reading Hall in Heidelberg, the Turgenev Library in Paris, and the Russkii akademicheskii soiuz (Groupe academique russe), also in Paris. The printed materials include clippings, materials from the Institute d'ʹetudes slaves, and a number of books by Svatikov.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Sergei Grigor'evich Svatikov Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1951.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1962.

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Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1951.

Papers Accessioned 1962.

Papers Processed 01/--/83.

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

Sergei Grigorievich Svatikov, (1878/1880? – 1942) Russian lawyer, historian, publicist, and public figure, was born in the South of Russia to a family of Russian gentry. In 1897, he enrolled in the School of Law at St. Petersburg university but soon after was expelled for the participating in the student movement. Svatikov completed his education at the University of Heidelberg in Germany where he defeated his PhD dissertation in 1904.

Several years after graduation he worked as an attorney for the Petrograd Court of Justice. In 1917, Svatikov was appointed as a Comissar of the Provisional Government Abroad for the elimination of the secret police agents. In 1918-1919, Svatikov worked at the Propaganda Department of the General Denikin Army. He fled Russia in 1920 and lived in Paris ever after.

Sergei Svatikov lectured at the Sorbonne University from 1924 to 1939. He was also very active in creating of the Russian Literary Archive of the Turgenev Public library in Paris. In 1935, he played significant role on the side of prosecution against the notorious Protocols of Zion at the Berne Trial. Sergei Svatikov authored several books and numerous articles on the history of Don Cossacs and Siberia. From time to time he used a penname Chuzhinets.