Vladimir Mikhailovich Andreevskii Papers, 1885-1954

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

• Series I: Correspondence
• Series II: Manuscripts
• Series III: Documents
• Sereis IV: Subject Files
• Series V: Printed Materials

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, a subject file, and printed materials. Much of the collection consists of manuscripts and memoirs by V. M. Andreevskii: his memoirs up to 1917; memoirs of a trip to Palestine in 1881; and his diary for 1919-1931. Also included is a typescript copy of the memoirs of historian Boris Chicherin, entitled "N.I. Krivtsov." Many of the printed materials concern the Orthodox Church in emigration. Another item, dated 1885, is: "Spravochnaia kniga (instruktsiia) dlia rukovodstva gorodovym i voobshche nizhnim politseiskim sluzhiteliam."

• Series I: Correspondence

• Series II: Manuscripts

• Series III: Documents

• Sereis IV: Subject Files

• Series V: Printed Materials

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vladimir Mikhailovich Andreevskii Papers; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Accruals

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1956.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1957.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1956.

Papers Accessioned 1957.

Papers Processed 12/--/78.

Papers Processed 02/--/82.

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

Revision Description

2021-05-11 PDF finding aid converted to EAD; notes revised, updated and expanded. KSD.

Subject Headings

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Subject

History / Biographical Note

Biographical sketch

Vladimir Mikhailovich Andreevskii (October 30 (November 12) 1858, Tambov - May 16, 1943, Paris), Russian statesman, active state councilor (January 1, 1911), member of the State Council, honorary magistrate for the Kirsanovsky district of the Tambov province.

He graduated from the law faculty of the Moscow University. After a long trip to the countries of Europe and the Middle East, he published a volume of travel notes "Egipet: Aleksandriia, Kair, ego okrestnosti, Sakkara i berega Nila do pervykh porogov (Printing house of M. M. Stasyulevich, 1884) and was accepted as a member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.

In 1886 he left the service and settled in the Bogoslovka estate in the Kirsanovsky district. He was elected the district marshal of nobility. Since 1906, a member of the State Council.

After the revolution, in March 1920, emigrated to France with his sister Olga and wife Vera Konstantinovna. In 1921 he was elected to the board of the Soiuz osvobozhdeniia i vozrozhdeniiia Rossii. Participated in the Soveshchanie gruppy patrioticheskikh deiatelei in Paris in 1925. Andreevskii's family tooka an active part in the openning of a shelter for Russian refugees near Paris organized by Princess Vera Kirillovna Meshcherskaya in 1924.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Andreevskii buried in the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois cemetery.