Register of the Innokentii Nikolaevich Seryshev Papers

box 1

Biographical File, 1918-[1965].

Scope and Content Note

Consists of bibliography of writings and periodicals edited, and scrapbooks containing correspondence, identity and travel papers, as well as other documents. Arranged alphabetically by physical form

box 1

Correspondence, 1915-1955.

Scope and Content Note

Scrapbooks and loose correspondence filed alphabetically by correspondent

box 2-11

Speeches and Writings, 1920-1968.

Scope and Content Note

Arranged chronologically by title

box 11-12

Subject File, 1891-1951.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, arranged alphabetically by subject. Includes biographical dossiers on various significant Russian émigrés

box 12

Printed Matter, 1904-1969.

Scope and Content Note

Primarily religious literature, including church and parish bulletins, arranged in alphabetical order by title

box 13

Photographs, 1916-1953.

Scope and Content Note

Include paste-ups for Seryshev's publications as well as group photos of Russian and foreign Esperantists, including Seryshev

Box 1

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1918-[1965]

Autobiography.

Note

See SPEECHES AND WRITINGS/"V zemnom plane moego vechnogo bytiia"

Box/Folder 1 : 1

Bibliographical list of Seryshev's publications, [1965]

Scrapbooks

Box/Folder 1 : 2

"Delo o deiatel'nosti i rabote sviashchennika Innokentiia Serysheva na Altae (Sibir') v dni po-Fevral'skoi revoliutsii i o poezdke ego v Iaponiiu po prichine padeniia Kolchakovskogo rezhima i nastupleniia rezhima bol'shevikov," 1918-1948.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of correspondence, identity papers, travel certificates, orders, and related materials. Includes introductory note and index

Box/Folder 1 : 3

"Delo o prebyvanii sviashchennika Innokentiia Serysheva v Kharbine," 1922-1948.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of correspondence, writings and printed matter. Includes introductory note

Box/Folder 1 : 4

"Dela Sidneiskogo prikhoda i rol' sviashch. I. Serysheva v nem," 1921-1949.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of autobiographical note, correspondence, circulars, and related matter

CORRESPONDENCE, 1915-1955.

Note

See also BIOGRAPHICAL FILE/Scrapbooks, SPEECHES AND WRITINGS (esp. "V zemnom plane moego vechnogo bytiia"), and SUBJECT FILE

General--Scrapbooks

Box/Folder 1 : 5

File 1, 1915-1944.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include K. V. Baturin, Bishop Vasilii, Sergei Maslov, and V. Zenzinov. Includes index as well as related printed matter

Box/Folder 1 : 6

File 2, 1929-1949.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include G. D. Grebenshchikov and S. I. Gusev-Orenburgskii. Includes index

Box/Folder 1 : 7

"Delovaia perepiska," 1936-1952.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include Bishop Serafim, N. N. Alekseev, A. V. Treichke

Box/Folder 1 : 8

"Sviaz' s redaktsiiami i izdatel'stvami," 1943-1947

Box/Folder 1 : 9

Agreneva-Slavianskaia, Margarita, D., 1947

Bulgakov, Petr I.

Note

See SUBJECT FILE

Box/Folder 1 : 10

Korzhenevskii, Pavel Vasil'evich, 1937-1948.

Scope and Content Note

Includes postcards from Korzhenevskii's children

Box/Folder 1 : 11

Morita, Pavel, 1920

Box/Folder 1 : 12

Sergii, Bishop of Japan, 1920

Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich.

Note

See SUBJECT FILE

Box/Folder 1 : 13

Zarochentsev, Mikhail Trofimovich, 1953-1955

Box 2

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1920-1968.

Note

For other works printed by his publishing house, see SUBJECT FILE

Scope and Content Note

Includes periodicals edited by Seryshev, nearly every issue of which contain one or more of his articles.

General

Box/Folder 2 : 1

Untitled compilation of articles and fragments of articles from various journals, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 2 : 2

"Sbornik broshiur Izdatel'stva 'Oriento'," 1935-1941.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy. Bound compilation of brochures (with table of contents) issued by Seryshev, some as supplements to his periodicals

Box/Folder 2 : 3

Scrapbook. "Stat'i I. Serysheva, pisannye iz Iaponii, po raznym voprosam, v esperantskikh zhurnalakh na Esperanto i v iaponskikh po-iaponski i po-russki, 1920-1922."

Scope and Content Note

Articles in periodical press include primarily works on Esperanto (in La Orienta Lumo, La Revuo Orienta, La Verda Ombro and other periodicals), as well as on current events (in Golos Iaponii)

Box/Folder 2 : 4

Tables of contents to some issues of periodicals edited and published by Seryshev

Box/Folder 2 : 5

"Liubopytnyi dokument," 1921 January 1.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

"Lektsiia Episkopa Sergiia ob arkhiepiskope iaponskom Nikolae," [summary] 1922.

Note

See SUBJECT FILE/Bulgakov, Petr/Subject file

Box/Folder 2 : 6

"Sushchnost' velikogo narodnogo vosstaniia v Sibiri v 1919 godu," 1922.

Scope and Content Note

Holograph

Box/Folder 2 : 7

"Iz vpechatlenii o Iaponii," 1924.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy. Clippings from an unidentified Harbin newspaper ( Nasha zaria?)

Strana samuraev, 1924-1925

Box/Folder 2 : 8

Part I.

Scope and Content Note

Includes Takekuma Tokusaburo, Aborigeny ostrova Khokkaido - "Ainy", translated by I. Seryshev. Printed copy

Part II

Box/Folder 2 : 9

Holograph.

Scope and Content Note

Includes introductory note by Seryshev, 1948 May

Box/Folder 3 : 1

Printed copy

Box/Folder 3 : 2

Oriento, #1 (July 1925).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy. Includes table of contents to numbers 1-2 (typescript and holograph)

Tserkovnyi kolokol (periodical).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 3 : 3

1932 May (#1) - April (#2)

Box/Folder 3 : 4

1932 November (#1) - 1933 February (#4)

Tserkov' i nauka (periodical).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 3 : 5

1933 March (#1) - 1933 December (#10)

Box/Folder 3 : 6

1934 January (#11) - 1934 December (#22)

Box/Folder 3 : 7

1935 January (#23) - 1935 August (#30)

Box/Folder 3 : 8

1935 October (#32) - 1936 March (#37)

Box/Folder 4 : 1

Fragments of #43 (1936); #52 (1954)

Box/Folder 4 : 2

Polemicheskii biulleten', 1933 July (#1) (periodical).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 4 : 3

Avstralaziia, 1933 November (#1) - 1935 April-September (#3) (periodical).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 4 : 4

Aziia, 1934 March (#1); 1935 January (#2); 1937 April[1935 December] (#3) (periodical).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 4 : 5

Informatsionnyi biulleten' Izdatel'stva "Oriento", #1 (May 1935).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Put' emigranta (periodical).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 4 : 6

1935 October (#4) - 1936 March (#3/9)

Box/Folder 4 : 7

1936 April (#4) - 1937 February (#19)

Box/Folder 5 : 1

1937 March (#20) - 1937 December (#29)

Box/Folder 5 : 2

1938 January (#30) - 1938 August (#37)

Box/Folder 5 : 3

1938 September (#38) - 1941 July (#46)

Box/Folder 5 : 4

La Pacifiko, 1935 December (#1) - 1936 September (#2)

Box/Folder 5 : 5

"Al'bom 'Avstralaziia'," 1937-1940.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 5 : 6

"Lektsionnyi al'manakh russkogo doma v Sidnee za 1943 god," 1943.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy. Includes lectures by others

Album of Great, Outstanding and Eminent Personalities of Russia, 1945-1946

Box/Folder 5 : 7

Background materials.

Note

For additional photostats, see PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content Note

Include clippings, correspondence, notes, photographs.

Box/Folder 6 : 1-7

Background materials

Box/Folder 7 : 1

Background materials

Box/Folder 7 : 2

Progress reports

Box/Folder 7 : 3-8

Drafts

Box/Folder 7 : 9

Printed copy, parts I-III

Box/Folder 7 : 10-11

Reviews.

Scope and Content Note

Includes newspaper clippings and correspondence, 1945-1954

Box/Folder 8 : 1

Review of V. Krymov, Drozofily i my, 1948.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 2

"Religiia i nauka," 1948.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 3

"Strastnaia sedmitsa," 1948.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 4

"Mozhet byt' ili navernost'," 1949 April.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 5

"Problema mehdunarodnogo iazyka," 1949 August.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 6

"Paskha," 1949 September.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 7

"Mysli o sektantstve," 1949 November.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 8

"Chetvertoe imerenie prostranstva," [1950 January].

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 9

"Zagrobnaia zhizn'," 1950 September.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 10

"Bog, mir, chelovek," 1951.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 8 : 11

Missionerskii listok, 1951 September - [1966]

Box/Folder 8 : 12

"Sbornik propovedei, besed i tem dlia dukhovnykh lektsii v pomoshch' pravoslavnym pastyriam," 1951 December.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box 9

"V zemnom plane moego vechnogo bytiia," 1952 February - 1968.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript. Includes photographs of author and others

Box/Folder 9 : 1

Volume 1: "V Sibiri."

Scope and Content Note

Missing pp. 281-282, 355-356

Box/Folder 9 : 2

Volume 2: "V Iaponii"

Box/Folder 9 : 3

Volume 3: "V Kitae"

Box/Folder 9 : 4

Volume 4: "V Avstralii"

Box/Folder 10 : 1-2

Volume 4: "V Avstralii

Box/Folder 10 : 3-4

Volume 4: "V Avstralii."

Scope and Content Note

Appendices (correspondence, documents and photographs)

Box/Folder 10 : 5

Volume 5: "Moi lektsii, doklady, stat'i"

Box/Folder 10 : 6

Conclusion, table of contents, bibliography of Seryshev's works

Box/Folder 10 : 7

"Rabota russkikh emigrantov na internatsional'nom poprishche esperantizma," 1952 December.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 10 : 8

Lechebnyi sbornik, #2 (1954).

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy. Compiled and edited by Seryshev.

Box/Folder 11 : 1

V chasy dosuga, v minuty razdum'ia, 1955-1957 (#18-19)

Box/Folder 11 : 2

"Istoriia Sidneiskogo prikhoda ot ego osnovaniia do pribytiia pervogo episkopa," 1956 July.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 11 : 3

Kriticheskii sbornik #3: Teosofiia, okkul'tim i khristianstvo, 1959 February.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 4

Mia "Cigna Kanto"/ Moia lebedinaia pesn', 1960 March.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 5

Voĉo de Esperantulo/ Golos Esperantista, 1962 (#1) and undated, unnumbered issue.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 6

Sperto de mia vivo, 1962 May.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 7

"Esperanto v S.S.S.R. i v ee satelitakh: Chast' 2-ia,", 1962 August.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 11 : 8

Opisanie zhini matushki Ekateriny Feodorovny Seryshevoi, (1884-1963), 1964.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 9

Apologeticheskie uroki Vetkhogo Zaveta, parts 1-7, 1966-1967.

Scope and Content Note

Printed copy

Box/Folder 11 : 10

Kritika knigi frantsuza ateista Leo Taksil' "Zabavnaia Bibliia," 1968 August.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 11 : 11

"Na knizhku 'Vo svete pisaniia' ukrainskogo eks-iereia G. Dobrovol'skogo, ushedshego v sektu baptistov, moi kriticheskii otvet," 1968 August.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 11 : 12

"Ob"iasnenie liturgii dlia molodezhi," 1968 December.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 11 : 13

"Potemkinskie potemki: Kriticheskii otvet na broshiuru starovera K. V. Potemkina 'Raz"ediniaiushchaia sila'," 1968 December.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

Box/Folder 11 : 14

"O reforme nashego eparkhial'nogo zhurnala," 1968 December 25.

Scope and Content Note

Typescript

SUBJECT FILE, 1891-1951

Box/Folder 11 : 15

Bebutova, Olga.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of letters from Archbishop Feodosii to Seryshev, 1951, and receipts pertaining to Seryshev's activity in advancing financial aid to Bebutova

Bulgakov, Petr, Rev.

Scope and Content Note

Materials from Bulgakov's archive sent to Seryshev, consisting of his correspondence, writings, and collected materials

Box/Folder 11 : 16

Biographical file.

Scope and Content Note

Includes brief notes and chronology of Bulgakov's life

Correspondence

General

Box/Folder 11 : 17

General and unidentified, [1908]-1928 and undated

Box/Folder 11 : 18

Scrapbook.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters to Seryshev, Patriarch Tikhon and others, 1922-1930 and undated. Also includes photograph of Bulgakov and biographical introduction by Seryshev, dated 1948

Box/Folder 11 : 19

Sergii, Bishop of Japan, 1920-1930

Box/Folder 11 : 20

Seryshev, Innokentii, 1920-1930

Box/Folder 11 : 21

Tikhon, Patriarch, 1891-1923.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter by S. Bulgakova to Seryshev introducing this correspondence, 1939

Box/Folder 11 : 22

Subject file - Sergii, Bishop of Japan.

Scope and Content Note

Includes summary of speech by him written by Seryshev and related letter by Bulgakov to the newspaper Novaia zaria, 1931

Box/Folder 11 : 23

Writings, 1908-1930.

Scope and Content Note

May include pieces not by Bulgakov

Box/Folder 11 : 24

Miscellany

Box/Folder 12 : 1

Japanese students.

Scope and Content Note

Diary of a Japanese student studying the Russian language, 1919-1920

Box/Folder 12 : 2

Russians--Australia.

Scope and Content Note

Scrapbook includes correspondence with A. A. Faminskii, 1939, and others, clippings, broadsides and other materials relating to Russians in Australia in the 1920s-1930s

Box/Folder 12 : 3

Shkurkin, Pavel Vasil'evich.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, 1927-1941, clippings, photograph and collected materials relating to the biography of this orientalist

Box/Folder 12 : 4

Miscellany.

Scope and Content Note

Includes newspaper clippings, mainly on church affairs

Box/Folder 12 : 5-8

PRINTED MATTER, 1904-1969.

Scope and Content Note

Consists mainly of religious literature, including a large amount of bulletins issued by various parishes and organizations in China and Australia, some published by Seryshev, as well as mimeographed and typed reports on religious and church-related subjects

Box 13

PHOTOGRAPHS, 1916-1953

Box/Folder 13 : 1

Photostats for use in Seryshev's Album of Great, Outstanding and Eminent Personalities

Box/Folder 13 : 2

Postcards, depicting various subjects, including indigenous peoples of Australasia.

Scope and Content Note

Include many printed by Seryshev, with titles in Esperanto

Box/Folder 13 : 3

Esperanto groups (including Seryshev) in Barnaul, Russia, 1916, and Peking, 1924

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