Register of the Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo Records
Prepared by Anatol Shmelev
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
© 2003
Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Register of the Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo Records
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: Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo records,
Date (inclusive): 1935-1948
Collection number: 2000C15
Creator:
Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo
Collection Size:
4 microfilm reels
(0.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, and reports, relating to Russian émigré participation in agriculture in the United States and Canada.
Language:
Russian.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo Records, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were 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.
Administrative History
Association of émigré Russian agronomists in North America.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the correspondence and office file of the Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo (Russian Agricultural
Union of North America). Of particular interest are the issues of its bulletins, including the file of unpublished article
drafts, which illustrate the breadth of its members' interests and activities. The correspondence is also a significant resource
for the study of the contributions of Russian émigré agronomists and engineers to American and Canadian agricultural production
and food processing (particularly grain, dairy products and spirits).
The correspondence is largely between the organization's founder, Petr Filaretovich Konstantinov, and its members, including
V. M. Benzin, I. V. Emelianov, I. K. Okulich, M. T. Zarotschenzeff and others.
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
Agriculture--United States.
Agriculture--Canada.
Russians--United States.
Russians--Canada.
Russia.
United States.
Canada.
Series Description
box 1-2
Correspondence, 1937-1948.
Scope and Content Note
Incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the formation and activities of the association, arranged chronologically
box 3-4
Office File, 1935-1947.
Scope and Content Note
Consists mainly of organizational materials, minutes of meetings, annual statements, lists of members and miscellaneous correspondence,
arranged alphabetically by physical form. Also includes issues of the organization's bulletin and unpublished articles written
for it
Container List
Box 1
CORRESPONDENCE, 1937-1948
Box/Folder 1 : 1
1937 December 8 - 1938 July
Box/Folder 1 : 3
1939 July 1 - 1940 January 1
Box/Folder 1 : 4
1940 January 1 - 1941 January 1
Box/Folder 2 : 2
1937 December - 1939 June
Box/Folder 3 : 1
Activity reports, 1938-1939
Box/Folder 3 : 3
Founding documents.
Scope and Content Note
Includes drafts of charter, appeals for support to Russian agronomists abroad, 1935-1938
Box/Folder 3 : 4
Membership list, 1940 February 10
Box/Folder 3 : 5
Minutes of meetings, 1938-1945
Izvestiia Russkogo sel'sko-khoziaistvennogo obshchestva
Box/Folder 3 : 6
General.
Scope and Content Note
Drafts of articles submitted for publication and related materials
Box/Folder 3 : 7
Issues #1-7, 1939-1941.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copies
Box/Folder 3 : 8
Miscellany.
Scope and Content Note
Includes reviews
Box/Folder 3 : 9
Katalog russkikh knig biblioteki Russkogo sel'sko-khoziaistvennogo obshchestva v Sev. Amerike, 1939.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 3 : 10
Obzor deiatel'nosti za 1938 g., 1939.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy. Includes correspondence between V. A. fon Reimers and P. F. Konstantinov and I. K. Okulich, 1940, originally
bound or placed into the volume
Box/Folder 3 : 11
"O sel'skom khoz-ve Ameriki."
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings, mainly from Russian émigré newspapers, regarding the state of farming and agricultural production in the
United States. Also includes many articles by P. F. Konstantinov
Box/Folder 4 : 1
"Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo v Amerike."
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings, photographs and the resumes or vitaes of members, as well as the charter, minutes of meetings, and annual
reports of the organization
Box/Folder 4 : 3
Poultry.
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes and correspondence on poultry production
Box/Folder 4 : 4
Russian Center (Russkii tsentr), San Francisco
Box/Folder 4 : 5
Seeds--Soviet Union.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes and writings relating to transportation of seeds to the Soviet Union during the Second World War
Box/Folder 4 : 6
Miscellany.
Scope and Content Note
Includes drafts of appeals, proposals, projects and speeches, memoranda, notes, and receipts
