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Title: Alex N. Kniazeff (Aleksei Nikolaevich Kniazev) papers,
Date (inclusive): 1911-1993
Collection number: 2000C46
Creator:
Kniazeff, Alex N., 1909-1993
Extent:
43 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 17 microfilm reels
(13.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, financial records, bulletins, personal documents, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the
Russian Boy Scouts movement abroad and to Russian émigré affairs. In part, microfilm.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Russian,
and English.
Collection is open for research.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Alex N. Kniazeff Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired.
In part, originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1909 August 5 (N.S.) | Born, Tsitsihar, China |
| 1933 | Degree, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Polytechnic Institute, Harbin, China |
| 1935-1948 | Engineering and administrative positions, Kailan Mining Administration, Tientsin, China |
| Scoutmaster, Tientsin, China | |
| 1941 April 27 | Married Eugenia Smikovska |
| 1949-1951 | General Consulting Engineer, International Refugee Organization, Tubabao, Samar, Philippines |
| 1952-1955 | Instructor of Russian, U. S. Army Language School, Monterey, California |
| 1955-1958 | Instrumentation Designer, Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco, California |
| 1958-1974 | Senior Draftsman, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, California |
| 1959- | Scoutmaster, Natsional'naia organizatsiia rossiiskikh skautov (St. George's Knights) |
| 1993 | Died, San Francisco, California |
This collection consists of correspondence, clippings and other matter reflecting Kniazeff's involvement in various émigré
organizations. He was a member of the San Francisco Trans-Baikal Cossacks' Stanitza and of the Harbin Polytechnic Alumni Association,
and senior scoutmaster of the Natsional'naia Organizatsiia Russkikh Skautov (National Organization of Russian Scouts, or St.
George's Knights, as it was incorporated in California). Most of the collection relates to the history of the Russian Boy
Scout movement abroad, particularly for the period 1963-1975.
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Boy Scouts.
Natsional'naia organizatsiia russkikh skautov.
Russians--United States.
Russia.
United States.