Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov papers, 1914-1940

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Summary

Creators:
Tolstov, SergeÄ­ Sergeevich, 1881-
Abstract:
Correspondence, military documents, and photographs, relating to Russian military activities during World War I, and to the Russian Civil War.
Extent:
2 microfilm reels (0.3 Linear Feet)
Language:
Russian
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The papers of Colonel Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov detail his military career during the First World War and Russian Civil War. They include orders, battlefield notes and descriptions of battles on the Austrian front of World War I, and in Siberia and the Far East (Vladivostok) during the period 1917-1919. The correspondence is also largely of a military nature.

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 Library & 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 Library & Archives.

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Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1881 February 13 (O.S.)
Born, Kazanskaia guberniia, Russia
1898
Entered military service as a volunteer
1901
Graduated Kazan' infantry military college
1904-1905
Served in Russo-Japanese War with 6th Eniseiskii polk
1914-1915
Commanded mounted unit of 2nd Siberian Rifle Division
1915-1916
Battalion commander, 5th Eastern Siberian Rifles
1917
Commanded Krasnoiarsk garrison
Commanded 6th Siberian Rifle Brigade
Commanded 15th Siberian Reserve Regiment
1918
Commandant, Vladivostok fortress
Commanded military and naval forces of the Maritime District
1919 April
Arrived, Shanghai, China
1923
Arrived, United States

Colonel S. S. Tolstov was born on 13 February 1881. He was wounded in the Russo-Japanese War and several times in the course of the First World War, where he began as a captain and rose to command the 5th Siberian Rifles (promoted to the rank of colonel in 1916).

In 1917, as commander of the 6th Siberian Reserve Brigade, he was simultaneously the commander of the Krasnoiarsk garrison and later the entire military region. Arrested during the anti-Bolshevik uprising in Irkutsk in December 1917, he escaped from jail to Vladivostok, where he worked in various capacities. In June 1918, he was invited by the anti-Bolshevik government in Vladivostok to be commander of the Primor'e Military District. In September 1918, he resigned his command for political reasons and left for Shanghai (1919). In 1923 he and his wife, Lidiia Vladislavovna, moved to San Francisco, where he was involved in fundraising activity to help Russian war invalids abroad, and where he died of a heart attack on 9 November 1950.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2000.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
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