Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Poli͡akov, Ivan Alekseevich, 1886-1969
- Abstract:
- These papers contain the correspondence, and writings of Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov, participant in the Don Cossack uprising of 1918, and ataman of the Don Cossacks in emigration since 1947.
- Extent:
- 39 microfilm reels (5.85 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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These papers contain the correspondence, and writings of Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov, participant in the Don Cossack uprising of 1918, and ataman of the Don Cossacks in emigration since 1947. The Correspondence file includes detailed correspondence with leading Russian émigré military and social leaders, and provides a rich source of information on the activities of Cossack activities in the diaspora.
Poliakov's Speeches and writings include the typescript of Donskie kazaki v bor'be s bol'shevikami, as well as related correspondence and reviews. In addition, several articles, notes, speeches, and materials relating to Poliakov's monograph Krasnov-Vlasov: vospominaniia are included.
The Subject file includes materials on the history of the Don and Kuban Cossacks, the Russkii obshche-voinskii soiuz, and General A. A. Vlasov. Of special significance are documents relating to the Don Cossack ataman elections in the diaspora.
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 Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Holy Trinity Seminary Archives as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is appended to this register. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Biographical / historical:
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Date Event 1886 August 10 Born, Russia1914 Graduated, Nikolaevskoe inzhenernoe uchilishche1915 Captain, Ninth Army1918 Arrived at the Don, joined Ataman P. N. Krasnov's Don Cossack Army1919 Emigrated to Serbia1947 Assigned as acting ataman of Don Cossacks1952 Emigrated to the U.S.A.1959 Author, Krasnov-Vlasov: vospominaniia1962 Author, Donskie kazaki v bor'be s bol'shevikami1969 Died, New YorkIvan Alekseevich Poliakov was born into a Don Cossack family in Novocherkassk on August 10, 1886. His officer father sent Ivan to Donskoi kadetskii korpus, after which he went on to the Nikolaevskoe inzhenernoe uchilishche, graduating in 1914. Poliakov served in the Ninth Army as captain, joining General Petr N. Krasnov's Don Cossack Army in 1917 and being elevated to the rank of major general in 1918. Poliakov immigrated to Serbia in 1919. He returned to active military life during General Krasnov's involvement in organizing Cossack divisions within the German Army from 1942 to 1945; unlike Krasnov, however, Poliakov joined Vlasov's Russkaia osvoboditel'naia armiia.
Poliakov was elected Don Cossack ataman in 1947, a position he continued to hold through 1965. Arriving in the United States in 1952, he published two memoirs, one dealing with the Don Cossack anti-Bolshevist struggle from 1917 to 1920 and another on General Krasnov's and General Vlasov's activities during World War II. He died in New York in 1969.
- Acquisition information:
- Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2008.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is organized into five series: Biographical file, Correspondence, Speeches and writings, Subject file, Miscellany, and Photographs
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Russians -- United States
Cossacks
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ivan Alekseevich Poliakov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563