Register of the Vera Cattell Collection
Prepared by Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop
Hoover Institution Archives
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Register of the Vera Cattell Collection
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:
- Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop
- Date Completed:
- 1999
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© 2003 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Vera Cattell collection,
Date (inclusive): 1767-1986
Collection number: 2000C2
Collector:
Cattell, Vera, collector
Extent:
5 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 card file box
(4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to aspects of Russian imperial
and military history, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and Russian émigrés in China and elsewhere.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
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], Vera Cattell Collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Accruals
Increments may have been received since this finding aid was prepared. Please check Stanford University's online catalog Socrates
at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat to find the full extent of the collection.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists primarily of papers belonging to Grigorii Konstantinovich Bologov, chairman of the Russian Emigrants'
Association of Shanghai, and concerns the evacuation and resettlement of White Russian refugees from China. The bulk of the
series under that name relates to the emigrants' stay at a refugee camp on Tubobao Island in the Philippines under the auspices
of the United Nations International Refugee Organization. It includes material about conditions in the camp, lists of refugees,
and correspondence with American and Philippine camp authorities, as well as correspondence related to efforts to obtain permission
for emigration to the United States, South America, and Australia. Of special interest is an extensive correspondence of Archbishop
John of Shanghai and San Francisco. Also included are the founding documents and minutes of meetings of the Russian Emigrants'
Association in Shanghai and Tubobao.
Of particular interest in the subject file are the correspondence and personal papers of Prince Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza,
as well as printed copies of orders issued by him as Commander of the Ekaterinburg Garrison in 1918-1919, during the Russian
Civil War. The file also contains the business papers and military medals of Leonid Vishnevetskii, his business partner.
The photograph file contains a large leatherbound album celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Guards Regiment
(Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi), in which the prince served and which includes informal photographs of the Russian imperial
family.
Furthermore, the collection contains the commission and passport papers of Karol de Perthees, royal cartographer to King Stanislaw
August Poniatowski of Poland, to be found in the oversize file. Karol de Perthees was probably the most prominent 18th century
Polish cartographer. He was born in Dresden, the capital of the Saxon-Polish monarchy, the illegitimate son of the Russian
envoy in Dresden and later in Warsaw, baron Herman Kayserling. Perthees lived and worked in Warsaw from 1764 until 1798. After
the third partition of Poland he moved to Wilno where he devoted his time to entomology. (He compiled 9 vols. of
Insecta Polonica et Lithuanica.) Perthees' detailed maps of Poland, later reprinted in Berlin and Petersburg, were commonly used during Napoleon's invasion
of Russia. He was married to Jozefa, the middle daughter of Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto, the court painter of King Stanislaw
August.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Russia--History.
Russia--History, Military.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
Russians--China.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
China.
Container List
box 1-3
Russian Refugees from China File, 1937-1973.
Scope and Content Note
Announcements, appeals, clippings, correspondence, financial records, founding documents, lists, memoranda, minutes of meetings,
petitions, reports, personal papers, clippings and other printed matter, related to the evacuation and resettlement of Russian
refugees from China. Arranged alphabetically by subject
Box/Folder 1 : 2
Individual petitions for emigration, 1949-1951
Bologov, Grigorii (G. K. Bologoff), Chairman of the Russian Emigrants' Association
Bogen, E. (Special Delegate for Resettlement, IRO-UNEC, Tubobao, Philippines)
Box/Folder 1 : 5
General.
Scope and Content Note
Includes instructions of American government agencies and International Refugee Organization, 1949-1951
Box/Folder 1 : 6
Resettlement in Germany, 1949
Box/Folder 1 : 7
Delovaia Komissiia Pomoshchi Tubobavtsam (Viktor Korostylev), 1949-1950
John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco.
Note
See John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco/Correspondence
Box/Folder 1 : 8
Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev (Committee on Resettlement of Russian Refugees) (Viktor
Borzov), 1949-1950
Box/Folder 1 : 9
Modest, Hieromonk, 1950-1952
Box/Folder 1 : 12
Zaitsev, Pavel (
Russkaia Zhizn'), 1949
Box/Folder 1 : 13
Memorandum to American government, 1950
Box/Folder 1 : 15
"Possible Improvements of Legal Position of the Russian Emigrants," n.d.
Box/Folder 1 : 16
"Russian Emigrants' Association," n.d.
Box/Folder 1 : 17
"Russian Political Emigrants in China," n.d.
Box/Folder 1 : 18
"Ruinous Position of White Russian Emigrants in China," 1946
Box/Folder 1 : 19
"On Persons Twice Displaced" and "On Camp Conditions in Tubobao," 1949
Box/Folder 1 : 20
Diplomatic missions in Shanghai. List of personnel, 1948
Box/Folder 1 : 21
Federation of Russian Charitable Organizations in the United States. Minutes of meeting, 1948 April.
Note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev
I.R.O. Camp, Tubobao Island, Cuiuan, Samar, Philippines.
Note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev
Box/Folder 1 : 22
Correspondence, reports and clippings related to Senator William Knowland's visit to the camp, 1949
Box/Folder 1 : 23
Draft for constitution of Arbitration Board, n.d.
Box/Folder 1 : 24
Arrested for various misdemeanors, n.d.
Box/Folder 1 : 25
Members of R.E.A. Concert Band, n.d.
Box/Folder 2 : 1-2
Residents in the camp, 1949
John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco
Box/Folder 2 : 5
Clippings.
Scope and Content Note
Includes newspaper interviews, 1949
Correspondence with Grigorii Bologov
Box/Folder 2 : 10
Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev (Committee on Resettlement of Russian Refugees). Announcements
and forms, 1950.
Note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev
Box/Folder 2 : 11
Orthodox Church in China, Chancery. Announcements, directives, and correspondence, 1949-1950
Rossiiskaia Emigrantskaia Assotsiatsiia (Russian Emigrants' Association).
Note
See also Bologov, Grigorii/ Correspondence
Box/Folder 2 : 12
Address to John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, 1949
Appeals for aid in the resettlement of refugees.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, reports, and printed matter
Box/Folder 2 : 17
Brazil.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence of V. Reyer
Box/Folder 2 : 18
International Refugee Organization, Geneva, 1949.
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3,000 signatures of camp residents
Box/Folder 2 : 19
Italy.
Scope and Content Note
Report on refugee camp
Box/Folder 3 : 1
Philippines.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with president's office
United States.
Note
See also Bologov/ Correspondence/Bogen, E.
Box/Folder 3 : 3
List of refugees who applied for immigration into the U.S.
Correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings related to Grigorii Bologov's business travel
Box/Folder 3 : 7
Donations file, 1950.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 8
Financial records, 1947-1950
Box/Folder 3 : 9
Letter of gratitude to the American people, n.d.
Box/Folder 3 : 10
Membership registration blanks and list of members, 1940-1949
Minutes of meetings, 1948-1950
Box/Folder 3 : 13
Replies to enquiries related to members, 1949-1950
Box/Folder 3 : 14-17
Statutes, founding documents and other material related to the organization in Shanghai, 1946-1949
Box/Folder 3 : 18
Russian Center of San Francisco. Miscellany, 1952
Box/Folder 3 : 19
St. Tikhon's Orphanage and Seminary of St. John the Baptist.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in China and the Tubobao Camp Administration, and a list
of pupils and staff, 1949-1950
Box/Folder 3 : 20
Surinam. "Vestnik Russkikh v Surinami," 1952
Box/Folder 3 : 21
United States. Congress. House of Representatives, Report No. 2187, 81st Congress, 2nd Session, June 2, 1950
box 4
Subject File, 1913-1931.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and personal papers of Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza and Leonid Vishnevetskii; Russian paper money and government
bonds; documents related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Arranged alphabetically by subject
Box/Folder 4 : 1
Bonds - Russia, 1915-1917
Box/Folder 4 : 2
Georgievskii Komitet Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Velikago Kniazia Mikhail Aleksandrovicha. Statutes and membership list,
1915-1916
Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza.
Note
See also OVERSIZE FILE
Box/Folder 4 : 3
Correspondence and clippings related to court case re inheritance, 1930-1931
Box/Folder 4 : 4
Personal papers, including military service records,
1913-1915
Box/Folder 4 : 5
Orders issued as Commander of Ekaterinburg Garrison, 1918-1919.
Scope and Content Note
Printed sheets
Box/Folder 4 : 6
Mariia Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, 1913-1914
Box/Folder 4 : 7
Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke, 1914-1915
Box/Folder 4 : 9
Petrogradskii Sovet Rabochikh i Soldatskikh Deputatov. Order No. 1, March 1, 1917.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 4 : 10
Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi (Imperial Guards Regiment). Orders, 1916 February.
Note
See also PHOTOGRAPHS
Box/Folder 4 : 11
Tsarskoe Selo. Clipping, 1917?
Box/Folder 4 : 12-13
Vishnevetskii, Leonid. Contracts and other documents related to platinum mining, 1903-1916.
Note
See also Photographs and Memorabilia
box 5-6
Photographs, 1929-1937.
Scope and Content Note
72 prints related to Russia before the Revolution; 1 album of 22 postcards depicting uniforms of the Imperial Guard; 1 large
leatherbound album celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Guards (Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi) and containing
100 prints depicting the regiment and the imperial family
Box/Folder 5 : 1
1 print depicting Saint John of Kronstadt, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 2
19 prints depicting Emperor Nicholas II, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 3
5 prints depicting Empress Alexandra, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 4
15 prints depicting Grand Duke Alexis, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 5
18 prints depicting the imperial family, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 6
6 prints depicting the imperial family in informal military settings, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 7
1 postcard depicting Emperor Nicholas II, commemorating his death, 1929
Box/Folder 5 : 8
1 print depicting Leonid Vishnevetskii, 1927
Box/Folder 5 : 9
4 prints depicting miscellaneous Russian subjects, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 10
1 print depicting the Declaration of Trust of the China Realty Co., 1937
Box/Folder 5 : 11
1 photograph copy of a Chinese document, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 12
Album of 22 postcards, illustrating uniforms of the Imperial Guard, n.d.
Box 6
Album celebrating the 100
th anniversary of the Imperial Guard (Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi).
Scope and Content Note
Includes 100 prints showing members of the regiment in dress uniform and on parade. Also includes formal and informal photographs
of the imperial family, n.d.
box 7-9
Oversize File, 1767-1915.
Scope and Content Note
Personal papers of Karol de Perthees, watercolor depicting a rider on horseback, and printed matter consisting of
Russkie v Shankhae and
Khram Pamiatnik Moriakam Pogibshim v Voinu s Iaponiei v 1904-1905
Jiganoff, V. D.,
Russkie v Shankhae, n.d.
Box 8
Komitet po Sooruzheniiu Khrama Pamiatnika Moriakam Pogibshim v Voinu s Iaponiei v 1904-1905 gg.,
Khram Pamiatnik Moriakam Pogibshim v Voinu s Iaponiei v
1904-1905
gg.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy, 1915
Box 9
Personal papers of Karol de Perthees (1740-1812), royal cartographer/geographer to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski of Poland.
Scope and Content Note
Includes his Commission as lieutenant in the Polish Crown artillery, signed by Count Aloisius Bruhl, 1767; a passport for
travel to Elblag, East Prussia, signed by King Stanislaw August; his commission as colonel, signed by King Stanislaw August,
1783; extract from a register of the nobility of Wilno Guberniia confirming titles of the Perthees family, with wax seal of
Emperor Alexander I, 1812
Watercolor depicting a rider (Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza?) on horseback, n.d.
box 10
Memorabilia, 1920-1928.
Scope and Content Note
Medals received by Leonid Vishnevetskii for service in the Polish Army, 1920-1928
