Register of the N. A. (Nestor Apollonovich) Lakoba Papers
Register of the N. A. (Nestor Apollonovich) Lakoba Papers
Hoover Institution ArchivesStanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Natasha Porfirenko
- Date Completed:
- 2008, Revised, 2010
- Encoded by:
- Elizabeth Konzak
| 1893 May 1 | Born, Village of Lykhny, Abkhaziia |
| 1910-1911 | Studied at the seminary in Tiflis, Georgia |
| 1912 | Became a member of the Russian Social Democratic party |
| 1912-1918 | Worked for the Russian Social Democratic party in Abkhaziia and Groznyi |
| 1918 | Led the uprising against the Menshevik-dominated government of Abkhaziia |
| Deputy chairman of the Sukhumi Military Revolutionary Committee (Georgia); organized detachments of partisan forces for combat during the Russian Civil War | |
| Late 1918 | Arrested and imprisoned in Sukhumi, Georgia |
| 1919 | Banished from Georgia |
| 1920 | Took control of the underground Bolshevik organization in the city of Batumi (Georgia) |
| 1921 | Assistant chairman of the Revolutionary Committee in Abkhaziia |
| 1922 | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Abkhaziian ASSR |
| 1930-1936 | Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Abkhaziia; served on the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR, the Central Executive Committee of the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and the Bureau of the Party Central Committee in Georgia. He was personally acquainted with his fellow Caucasians Joseph Stalin and Lavrentii Beriia |
| 1936 December 28 | Died unexpectedly. Lakoba had an honorable burial, but was later declared an "enemy of the people" |
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection Contents
Biographical file, 1915-1939.
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Notebook pages.
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Autobiography, 1936 February 12
Curriculum vitae, 1936 October 14
Certificate of graduation, Tiflis seminary, 1915 May 6
Certificate, honorary leader of children communist movement of Abkhaziia, Georgia, 1924 August 22
Lakoba case, Sukhumi jail, 1918 November-December
Medical records, X-Ray results, 1926, 1935
Correspondence, 1922-1939.
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General
Undated, unidentified
General
Letter from Kostia regarding pursuit of bandits Chkhopeliia and Sichinava
Unfinished letter in purple ink regarding upcoming visit of L. Beriia to Sukhumi
Note from Dzhemal
1925-1932, unidentified
Cables, mostly undated. Includes cables from 1927
Undated, Adamii and Chitai, official letter
Undated, Kuchuloriia, D. I., People's Commissar of Provision, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Undated, Pirunov, comrade
1922 June 15, Meskhishvili
1922-1928, Ordzhonikidze, Sergo (chairman of the Central Control Commission)
Undated, letter to N. Lakoba with a request to send 16.5 million Deutschmarks to Mr. Schreiber, who lives in Berlin. Probably these are party money earmarked for the support of the German Communist Party
Undated, note to N. Lakoba asking to accommodate his old friend Sergei Anishchev arriving in Sukhumi on vacation
1922 April 17, letter to Atarbekov regarding the visit of Feliks Dzerzhinskii, Genrikh IAgoda, and others to Sukhumi in mid-October
1922 May 15, letter regarding a visit of Feliks Dzerzhinskii, Genrikh IAgoda, and other people to Sukhumi
1923 August 22, letter to N. Lakoba regarding Sergo Ordzhonikidze
1924 January 18, letter to N. Lakoba regarding medical leave of Leon Trotsky to Sukhumi
1925 September 27, note to N. Lakoba regarding Abkhazian situation
1926 January 7, draft letter from N. Lakoba to Sergo Ordzhonikize
1926 November 29, letter regarding Molotov's trip to Sukhumi
1928 October 18, letter to N. Lakoba asking to arrange a stay in Sukhumi for a military attach Vitalii Primakov
1924 January 6, Belen'kii, A., letter to N. Lakoba regarding doctor's advice to Leon Trotsky to immediately take a trip to the south
1924 January 18, Dzerzhinskii, Feliks (organized the first Soviet institutions of police coercion and terror)
1924 February 13, official confidential letter from Sofronov, signed as head of the Black Sea fleet
1924 March 21, official letter from the State Black Sea-Azov steam-ship line
1924 September 25, Prosecutor General of Abkhaziia (Georgia), office memo regarding death sentence to Zholkver, A.
1924-1932, Beriia, Lavrentii, head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
Undated, copy of the letter from N. Lakoba regarding Stalin's request to find a candidate to fill the position of Secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Communist Committee
Undated, defending a famous secret service officer
1924 November 12, confirming appointment of comrade Dzhavakhov to a senior position in the Sukhumi CheKa (secret police)
1924 November 19, letter to N. Lakoba asking him to familiarize himself with the case of Comrades Sadzhaia and TSaralov. Includes L. Beriia's signature on the letterhead of the Tanscaucasian CheKa (secret police)
1925 January 27, secret service travel identification card for protection of comrade Leon Trotsky
1928 September 14, letter to N. Lakoba concerning two sick workers
1929 October 29
1932 June 21, copy of the letter which describes a conversation between N. Lakoba and Stalin regarding Secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Communist Party Committee Mamiia Orakhelashvili
1932 July 26, letter "the copy of our report note"
1932 December, Draft letter to L. Beriia (with copies to Stalin, Kaganovich, Molotov, and Rudzutak) regarding pronouncement received by N. Lakoba on December 21, 1932
1925 January 26, Georg (possibly Georgii Sturua)
1925 August 7, TSanava, Sergei
1926 January 4, Orakhelashvili. M., secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Communist Party Committee
1926, Lakoba, Mikhail (N. Lakoba's step brother)
Undated, strictly confidential
1926 May 23. He was assigned to Leon Trotsky as head of the secret police guard during Trotsky's stay in Abkhaziia
1926 June 10, V. Pantsulai, famous Georgian Menshevik. He is expressing concern about Russian policy in Georgia in general and in Abkhaziia in particular
1927 June 16, Tuskiia, S.
1927 October 4, Inal-Ip, N.
1927 November 1, Gugushvili. V.
1927 November 8, Birvava, P.
1929, April 19, Bzhalava, Manuchar
1929-1934, Stalin, Joseph
Undated, Letter to Stalin in which N. Lakoba talks about his (N. Lakoba's) upcoming trip to America "for purchasing of planting material of citrus trees". Includes draft and final version
1929 October 19, expressing disagreement with the decision of the Georgian Bolshevik Party's Central Committee (TSetlin's commission) regarding the Abkhaziian case, which recommended removing N. Lakoba from the position of president of the Central Executive Committee of Abhaziia
1929 late October, response to Stalin's letter of October 19
1934 August 12, short evaluation of N. Lakoba's essay "Stalin i Khashim," which was published in October of the same year as an illustrative brochure by the Abhazian party press (20,000 copies)
1931 March 10, CHichinadzhe letter
1931 July 20, Fedorov, Professor, letter regarding N. Lakoba's health
1931 August-November, Eliava, SHalva, Deputy People's Commissar of the Foreign Commerce of the USSR
1932 October 16, SHaginian, Marietta, poet
1932 May 18, letter on stationery of the "Chairman of the All Union State Association Sovmongtuvtorg"
1932 November 23, Karpov, L.
1933 February 9, Leideker, S.
1933 February 20, note from the Director of the Kholodnorechensk construction project (Stalin's "dacha" - summer vacation residence)
1933 November 15, CHakvetadze, head of "Traktotsentr"
1933 November 29, Kalandiia, Markoz
1934 January 11, Ivashchenko, Mikhail
1934 February 26, office memo on the stationery of the Chairman of the State Political Administration
1934 October 15, Agrba, Z.
1934 December 28, Petiaev, S. People's Commissar of Agriculture of Abkhaziia
1936 February, Borisova, A.
1936 May 31, letter to N. Lakoba from General Vlasik, head of Stalin's secret police guards
1936 November, Musabekov, G., secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Communist Party Committee
1939 September 12, letter from Mardaleishvili
Speeches and writings, 1921-1937.
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Undated, N. Lakoba sayings
Undated, notes
Undated, theses for speeches
Speech drafts
Undated
1930s
Undated, request draft for a battalion of GPU from Tiflis for peasant suppression
1921, report to the "Council of propaganda and action of the people's of the East about the political situation in Sultan (old) Turkey"
1922, coded messages compiled by N. Lakoba
1922, article, Iskry Oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii, Sukhumi. Printed copy
1922 November 18, speech at a meeting of senior workers
1925/1926, general thoughts regarding an exhibit of the achievements of the Caucasus economy
1934 January, explanation regarding accusations laid down in the office memo of Prosecutor General of the USSR Akulov to Comrade Stalin
1934, Stalin i KHashim : 1901-1902 gogy, (nekotorye epizody iz Batumskogo podpol'ia), Sukhumi
Theses of the manuscript, undated
Holograph and typescript, undated
Printed copy, 1934
1935, Ot VI k VII S'iezdu Sovetov ASSR Abkhazii, Sukhumi. Printed copy
1936, speech praising the project of the new Soviet Constitution
1936 January 1, speech at the celebratory meeting of the Sukhumi city council devoted to the opening of the railroad Ochamchire-Kelasuri
1936 January 4, speech, "Progress report on the question of storage of tobacco supplies in Abkhaziia"
1936 October, order, directions and requests ("strictly confidential") for building a two room cottage
1937 February 17, Strictly confidential letter from investigator Pertsov
Subject file, 1914-1936.
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Undated, evaluation of work methods of Comrade TSeitlin in the city of Gudauta.
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Undated, letter to Anton Ivanovich from unidentified correspondent
Undated, survey, "Agriculture of Abkhaziia - base of the Soviet food industry" (pp.8-24 are missing)
Undated, questionnaire for "The history of the civil war in Abkhaziia"
Undated, letter (21 pages) from the people of the Abkhaziian Autonomous Republic to Comrade Stalin
Undated, complaint regarding false accusations to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, unidentified
Undated, reference material about geranium planting
1914 October 14, bank document and check
1921, appreciation letter to Doctor Sil'chenko
1923, Miriantsev, Georgii, promissory note
1924, case of bandits CHkhopeliia and Sichinava. Includes list of crimes committed
1924-1925, minutes of meetings, Caucasian Regional Control Commission, Russian Communist Bolshevik Party
1929 May, Kadyrov, Seid, report ("strictly confidential") on the national question in Georgia
Early 1930s, Kolokolkin, V., note
1930 August 7, Danchin, Valerian Dmitrievich, curriculum vitae
1931 January-August, council of the Tkvarchel'skii collective farm, progress report
1934 December 31, Rubtsov, L. I., description of the local tree "prutniak" or "Avraamovo derevo" (Vitex Agnus Castus)
1935 April 5 and 19, excerpts from the newspaper Pravda
1936, October 14, KHatuntsev, letter to his doctor
Photographs, undated.
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N. Lakoba
Portrait
On a tribune
In a parade
In automobile
In the airplane named after him Looking through an open window
N. Lakoba with Soviet and party officials
Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin, and others
Sergo Ordzhinikidzhe, Semen Budennyi, and others
L. Beriia, A Khandzhian, and others
L. Beriia, and others on steps of an office building
N. Lakoba, L. Beriia, Sarie Lakoba (N. Lakoba's wife), and others
Group of delegates (including N. Lakoba) of the VIIth All-Union Congress of the Council of People Deputies
Guests at home
Guests in the Botanical garden
Friends on a wooden bridge
Lev Kamenev with hunting trophies
In his native village Lykhny with Moscow guests
Group of people in front of the Duke's home in Lykhny village
Abkhaziian party
Two other horsemen
Horsemen in mountains
Group of people sitting on a bench
Bolsheviks in an automobile
L. Beriia in N. Lakoba's car
L. Beriia, Nina Gegechkori (his wife), Svetlana Stalina and others (on a ship)
Series of photographs depicting L. Beriia flirting with a woman
L. Beriia, Khandzhian, and Musabekov
L. Beriia on a tribune
Friends and family
Vasilii Stalin, Nina Gegechkori (L. Beriia's wife), and Sarie Lakoba (N. Lakoba's wife)
Nina Gegechkori (L. Beriia's wife), Svetlana Stalina, Sarie Lakoba (N. Lakoba's wife), and Nazie Dzhikhashvili (N. Lakoba's relative)
IAkov Dzhugashvili (Stalin's son), Svetlana Stalina, and Rauf Lakoba (N. Lakoba's son)
Sergo Ordzhonikidzhe with Rauf (N. Lakoba's son), group picture
Svetlana Stalina and L. Beriia
Funeral
General
Memorial service
L. Beriia helping to carry N. Lakoba's coffin
Funeral wreath from L. Beriia and his wife Nina Gegechkori
3 strips of contact prints
1933 September, 1 photo album with inscription "To Comrade Lakoba". Depicts vacation images of Joseph Stalin, L. Beriia, N. Lakoba, and many others