Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Russian Farm Supply Fund records
- Dates:
- 1967-2002
- Creators:
- Russian Farm Supply Fund
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, photographs, and videotapes documenting American agricultural assistance to Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
- Extent:
- 7 manuscript boxes (2.6 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- In English and Russian
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Russian Farm Supply Fund records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, photographs, and videotapes documenting American agricultural assistance to Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Russian Farm Supply Fund ("ะกะตััะตะปั") was an American foundation that promoted the revival of agriculture in Russia by sending seeds and agricultural equipment to the country. Its donations were distributed to monasteries, farmers, and retired military officers who wished to pursue farming. The founder and principal figure of the organization was Igor Leonidovich Novosiltsov. He was born in 1905 in Kaluga, Russia, into an old noble family. After the Revolution, in 1920, he emigrated with his family to Yugoslavia. Novosiltsov graduated from the Russian Cadet Corps and later moved to Czechoslovakia. During World War II, he lived in Germany, where he worked at the Vineta radio station in Berlin, broadcasting to the USSR. After the war, Novosiltsov moved to Italy, where he served as a representative of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), assisting former Soviet citizens in avoiding forced repatriation to Stalin's regime. Novosiltsov settled in the United States in 1962, where he taught Russian at the U.S. Air Force School at Syracuse University and wrote articles on the history of the Russian Liberation Movement (ROA). He died in 2002.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2008.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Russian Farm Supply Fund records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563