Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Mitrofan Ivanovich Retivov papers,
Date (inclusive): 1946-1961
Collection number: 2000C79
Creator:
Retivov, Mitrofan Ivanovich, 1869-1961
Collection Size:
3 microfilm reels
(0.45 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, photographs, and miscellany, relating mainly to the medical profession in Russia prior to the Russian Revolution.
Language:
Russian.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mitrofan Ivanovich Retivov Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
Accruals
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the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Biographical Note
| 1869 |
Born, Russia |
| 1901-1917 |
Vice-President of the Pirogov medical conventions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novocherkassk |
| 1917-1919 |
Director of a hospital in Khar'kov, Russia |
| 1932 |
Major, Red Cross, Paraguay |
| 1961 March 19 |
Died, Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina |
Scope and Content Note
M. I. Retivov was a prominent doctor in pre-Revolutionary Russia. The collection contain autobiographical and semi-autobiographical
writings, including memoirs of the Moscow University medical faculty in the 1890s, and a novel entitled "Moskva studencheskaia,"
as well as a study of V. I. Lenin and his role in Russian history. Other writings include a brief work on female doctors in
pre-Revolutionary Russia.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and the Museum of Russian Culture. The grant
also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco, as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Medicine--Russia.
Russians--South America.
Russia.
South America.