Register of the Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov Papers
Prepared by Anatol Shmelev
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Register of the Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov Papers
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Prepared by:
- Anatol Shmelev
- Date Completed:
- 2000
- Encoded by:
- ByteManagers using OAC finding aid conversion service specifications
© 2003 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov papers,
Date (inclusive): 1914-1940
Collection number: 2000C65
Creator:
Tolstov, Sergei Sergeevich, 1881-
Extent:
2 microfilm reels
(0.3 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, military documents, and photographs, relating to Russian military activities during World War I, and to the
Russian Civil
War.
Language:
Russian.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Biographical Note
| 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 6
th Eniseiskii polk
|
| 1914-1915 |
Commanded mounted unit of 2
nd Siberian Rifle Division
|
| 1915-1916 |
Battalion commander, 5
th Eastern Siberian Rifles
|
| 1917 |
Commanded 15
th Siberian Reserve Regiment
|
| |
Commanded 6
th Siberian Rifle Brigade
|
| |
Commanded Krasnoiarsk garrison |
| 1918 |
Commanded military and naval forces of the Maritime District |
| |
Commandant, Vladivostok fortress |
| 1919 April |
Arrived, Shanghai, China |
| 1923 |
Arrived, United States |
Scope and Content Note
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 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
World War, 1914-1918--Russia.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
Russia. Armiia--Officers.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
World War, 1914-1918.
Series Description
box 1
Biographical File, 1914-1933.
Scope and Content Note
Letters of recommendation, military service records and other materials, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1
Correspondence, 1923-1938.
Scope and Content Note
Letters and cards from unidentified individuals
box 1-2
Subject File, 1914-1940.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, orders, military service records, battle dispositions and field notes, and other materials, arranged alphabetically
by subject
box 2
Photographs, 1910s-1930s(?).
Scope and Content Note
Sixteen prints depicting S. S. Tolstov, other officers, scenes from the First World War and unidentified individuals
Container List
Box 1
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1914-1933
Commendations.
Note
See SUBJECT FILE/World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Russia
Box/Folder 1 : 1
Letters of recommendation from G. Elliot and V. Grosse
Box/Folder 1 : 2
Military service records.
Note
See also SUBJECT FILE
Box/Folder 1 : 4
CORRESPONDENCE, 1923-1938.
Scope and Content Note
Letters and cards from unidentified individuals, 1923-1938
Box/Folder 1 : 5
Obukhov, Vladimir Dimitrievich
Box/Folder 1 : 6-8
Russia (Territory under White Armies, 1918-1920).
Armiia.
Scope and Content Note
Documents relating to the Civil War in the Maritime District, particularly the situation in Vladivostok in 1918, consisting
mainly of correspondence, recommendations, orders, and related matter
Box/Folder 1 : 9-11
Campaigns--Eastern Front.
Scope and Content Note
Orders, descriptions of battles, field books
Box/Folder 2 : 1-2
Russia.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence from soldiers and fellow officers, 1914-1917, and orders relating to Tolstov's service in Krasnoiarsk in 1917
Box/Folder 2 : 3-4
Veterans--Russia.
Scope and Content Note
Mainly correspondence relating to military invalids outside Russia, 1931-1940. Includes commendations to Tolstov for his part
in aiding them
Box/Folder 2 : 5
PHOTOGRAPHS, 1910s-1930s(?).
Scope and Content Note
16 prints depicting S. S. Tolstov, episodes of his life, family members, and friends
