Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz Records, 1916-1945

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

The collection is organized in six series.

• Series I: Correspondence, 1920-1924
• Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence
• Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence
• Series II: Manuscripts
• Series III: Documents and Notes
• Series IV: Photographs and Drawings
• Series V: Subject Files, 1921-1945
• Series VI: Printed Materials

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files, drawings and printed material of the Vserossiiskii zemskii soiuz (All Russian Zemstvo Union). The correspondence, spanning the years 1920-1944, is for the most part addressed to Porfirii N. Sorokin, Executive Secretary of the organization's Vremennyi glavnyi komitet (Temporary Executive Committee), the coordinating unit for all the institutions of the Zemstvo Union. The manuscripts include writings by N. I. Astrov, V. D. Kuz'min-Karavaev, and others. The documents are almost exclusively minutes of the Temporary Executive Committee's meetings from the period 1919-1924. The photographs, for the most part unidentified, are of Russian refugee settlements and White Army encampments in the area of Constantinople and Gallipoli, ca. 1921. The subject files include some financial records, and the printed material include the Vserossiiskii zemskii soiuz bulletin from 1916-1921 as well as publications about the Rossiiskii Zemsko-gorodskoi komitet and the Vserossiiskii soiuz gorodov.

• Series I: Correspondence, 1920-1924

  The correspondence is for the most part addressed to Porfirii N. Sorokin, Executive Secretary of the organization's Vremennyi glavnyi komitet (Temporary Executive Committee), the coordinating unit for all the institutions of the Zemstvo Union.

• Series II: Manuscripts

• Series III: Documents and Notes

• Series IV: Photographs and Drawings

• Series V: Subject Files, 1921-1945

• Series VI: Printed Materials

  The printed materials include publications of the Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz as well as publications about the Rossiiskii Zemsko-gorodskoi komitet and the Vserossiiskii soiuz gorodov.

Using the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vserossiiskii Zemskii Soiuz Records; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Date of acquisition--03/--/31.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 03/--/31.

Papers Processed 03/--/31.

Materials were intellectually arranged in six series at the same time the finding aid was converted to EAD. Notes were revised and updated. Authorities were expanded. Nothing in the collection was physically rearranged.

Revision Description

2021-04-02 PDF finding aid converted to EAD; authorities and notes revised, updated and expanded. KSD.

Subject Headings

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

Russian social welfare organization founded in 1914 to aid wounded soldiers. During and after the Civil War it attended to the needs of the White Army and of Russian refugees in Europe.