Partial Register of the Boris N. Volkov papers
Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Stanford University
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Title: Boris N. Volkov papers
Date (inclusive): 1915-1963
Collection Number: 36008
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box, 23 microfilm reels, digital files
(3.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, clippings, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian literature, the
Russian Civil War in Siberia and Mongolia, the career of the White Russian commander Baron Ungern-Shternberg, Russian émigré
affairs, and anti-communist movements in the United States. Includes a translation by Elena Varneck and a fictionalized autobiographical
account of the Russian Civil War.
Creator:
Varneck, Elena, 1891-1976
Creator:
Volkov, Boris N., 1894-1954
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the Museum of Russian Culture
Access
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.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1936.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Boris N. Volkov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biography
B. N. Volkov was born in Ekaterinoslavl' (Siberia) on 30 May 1894 (N.S.). A university student in law, he volunteered for
military duty at the front in 1915, serving in Poland and the Caucasus as commander of a medical unit responsible for retrieving
wounded soldiers from the front lines. In December 1917, he was involved in an anti-Bolshevik uprising in Irkutsk. During
the Russian Civil War, Volkov served as an agent of the Siberian Provisional (later All-Russian) government in Mongolia.
Escaping from Baron R. F. Ungern-Shternberg, who had sentenced him to death, he spent the following few years in China, as
a commercial and sales agent for Gilchrist and Co. and the Tientsin Chemical Works Association.
In 1923 Volkov and his wife moved to the United States, where he worked as a longshoreman and construction worker, and at
a variety of other jobs. He was also a poet and writer, and though his autobiographical novel, "Conscript to Paradise," was
never published, he did see to press a book of verse entitled V pyli chuzhikh dorog (Berlin, 1933). Volkov also wrote for
the émigré press, and much of his poetry was published in periodicals. He died in San Francisco on 9 June 1954.
Chronology
1894 May 30 [N.S.] |
Born, Ekaterinoslav, Russia |
1915 |
Medic, Russian army |
1917 |
Completed university course, Legal Faculty, Moscow University |
1918-1920 |
Agent of Provisional Siberian and All-Russian governments (Omsk) in Mongolia |
1923 |
Emigrated to United States |
1933 |
Author,
V pyli chuzhikh dorog
|
1945 |
Translator, United Nations |
1954 June 9 |
Died, San Francisco |
Scope and Content
This collection consists mainly of the writings of the émigré poet and writer Boris Volkov. During the First World War, Volkov
was a medic with the Russian army on its Western and Caucasian fronts. During the Civil War, he was active in the counterrevolutionary
uprising in Irkutsk in 1918, and thereafter was an agent of the Omsk government in Mongolia, where he reported on the political
and military situation, particularly with regard to the activities of Ataman G. M. Semenov and General Baron R. F. Ungern-Shternberg.
Among his writings, the most significant piece is the unpublished novel "Conscript to Paradise." The novel itself is based
in part on his own experiences and in part on the diary of his wife, nee Elena Petrovna Witte, the daughter of the Russian
Councilor to the Mongolian government, but the completed draft is significantly abridged from the original version. The original
draft is in the form of a large volume of fragments, which may include typescript fragments of Witte's diary (or Volkov's
reworked versions of it). The fragments indicate that the author had in mind a much larger autobiographical novel that would
have encompassed his adventures in Siberia, the Transbaikal region of the Far East, and Mongolia during the 1917-1921 period.
This material has been left largely in the order received.
Other elements of the collection include Volkov's poetry and smaller prose works, some also of an autobiographical nature,
as well as evidence reflecting his anti-Communist views and work in America in the 1930s-1950s. The subject file and printed
matter series contains brochures and clippings on this and other subjects.
Left unfilmed due to the general accessibility of materials are a large number of boxes containing clippings and printed matter
(in Russian and English, from periodicals such as the
San Francisco Chronicle and
Examiner,
Reader's Digest,
American Mercury,
Look, etc.) relating to diverse subjects, the most significant of which are Communism and anti-Communism in the United States
(including large amounts of materials on McCarthy, espionage trials and Communist propaganda and subversion, as well as dossiers
on various public figures representing these movements), international affairs (especially the spread of Communism), and domestic
affairs in the USSR and its satellites and in the United States. This material covers the period from the 1930s to 1953.
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 Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials and copyright to
them (with some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. A transfer table indicating
corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Library & 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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russian literature
Russians -- United States
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Anti-communist movements -- United States
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Mongolia -- History
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, 1885-1921
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Armii͡a
onsite digital
Digital File
Scope and Contents
A digital version of Boris Volkov's "Conscript to Paradise." This version is important because the physical papers only contain
partial and messy drafts, whereas this e-version looks to be prepared for publication. DOC is 461 pages.
Microfilm of the Boris N. Volkov Papers held at the Museum of Russian Culture
Microfilm reel conversion list
Biographical File
1915-1953
General note
See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS/"A Descendant of Genghis Khan" and OVERSIZE FILE/Scrapbooks
Scope and Contents
Articles about Volkov, autobiographical notes, correspondence, commercial, employment and service records, arranged alphabetically
by physical form
reel 1
Addresses
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 1
reel 1
Articles about or mentioning Volkov. Includes correspondence with
Ripley's Believe It Or Not, regarding Volkov's entry, and correspondence regarding celebrations in honor of Volkov, 1931
1929 December 19
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 2
reel 1
Autobiographical notes
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 3
reel 1
Commercial records, Includes materials generated by Volkov as an agent of J.R. Gilchrist & Co.: correspondence with Tientsin
Chemical works, K. G. Baturin and Co., Gen. D. L. Khorvat and others, as well as financial documents
1920-1923
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 4
reel 1
Unidentified family members (?)
1922-1938
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 5
reel 1
Volkov, Alexander
1952-1953
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 6
reel 1
Witte, Boris
1928
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 7
reel 1
Description of invention by Volkov - "Etiquette stand"
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 8
reel 1
Employment documents
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 9
reel 1
Identity documents
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 10
reel 1
Inventory of archive
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 11
reel 1
Letter of recommendation for Volkov
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 12
reel 19
Obshchestvo druzei russkoi svobody. See SUBJECT FILE
reel 1
Service records
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 13
reel 1
Volkov (Townley), Bessie Baldwin
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 14
reel 1
Volkov (Witte), Elena Petrovna
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 15
reel 1
Miscellany
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 16
Correspondence
1922-1954
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
reel 1
General
1931-1951
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 17
reel 1
Unidentified
undated 1948
undated 1948
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 18
reel 1
Butenko, Vasilii
1951
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 19
Daniels, Camilla. Includes related correspondence with others. Consists largely of letters and postcards relating to the translation
of Volkov's unpublished novel, "Conscript To Paradise." See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
reel 1
Undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 20
reel 2
1932-1935
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 21
reel 2
1936-1943
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 1 folder 22
reel 2
Outgoing
1933-1943 (and undated)
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 1
reel 2
Eudin, X. J.
1950
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 2
reel 2
Izdatel'stvo imeni Chekhova
1952
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 3
reel 2
Kaun, Alexander
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 4
reel 2
Konstantinov, P.
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 5
reel 2
Lubelski, Sergei
1950
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 6
reel 2
Lutts, G.
1930
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 7
reel 2
Mel'gunov, S. (?)
1951
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 8
reel 2
Novoe Russkoe Slovo
1951
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 9
reel 2
Panteleieff, Maxim
1951
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 10
reel 3
Postnikova, Taisiia Anatol'evna
1953
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 11
reel 3
Rubtsova, T.
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 12
reel 3
Sakovitch
1925
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 13
reel 3
Serebrennikov, I. I.
1929-1930
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 14
reel 3
Serebrennikova, Aleksandra Nikolaevna
1929-1933
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 15
reel 3
Shapiro, Nadia L.
1927-1954
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 16
reel 3
Shmelev, Ivan S.
1950
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 17
reel 3
Solonevich, Boris, (fragment). Includes two attached wallet-size photos of Solonevich
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 18
reel 3
Tenney, Jack B., Senator
1948
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 19
reel 3
Vasil'ev, P.
1931
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 20
reel 3
Vernadsky, G.
1931
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 21
reel 3
Miscellany. Consists mostly of fragments of letters
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 22
Speeches And Writings
1913-1950
General note
See also OVERSIZE FILE
Scope and Contents
Articles, drafts of unpublished autobiographical novel, poetry, letters to the editor and reviews, arranged chronologically
by title
reel 3
Fragments (unidentified), Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 23
reel 3
Letters to editor, Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 2 folder 24
reel 4
Poems, Holograph, typescript and printed copies
1913-1936
undated.
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 1-3
reel 4
"Amerikanskoe pravopisanie," Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 4
reel 4
"Armeiskii razskaz," Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 5
reel 4
"Broshiury R. D. O.," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 6
reel 4
"Chekist li Sergei Gevlich," Typescript, and open letter of S. P. Mel'gunov
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 7
"Conscript to Paradise," include unrelated material
undated May
Scope and Contents
See also Digital File.
reel 4
Background materials. Includes notes by Volkov and others, citations from printed sources, correspondence (between Volkov
and various individuals), recollections by others of Mongolia and the activities of Gen. R. F. Ungern-Shternberg in
1918-1922
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 8-9
reel 5
Chapter outlines
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 10
reel 5
Contract for the translation of the book
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 3 folder 11
reel 5
General
1925-1933
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 4 folder 1
reel 1, reel 2
Daniels, Camilla. See CORRESPONDENCE
reel 5
Il'ina, Olga
1927
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 4 folder 2
Drafts and fragments of drafts. Holograph and typescript. Includes early drafts told from the point of view of E. P. Volkova
(Witte)
reel 5
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 4 folder 3-5
reel 6
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 4 folder 6-7
reel 6
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 5 folder 1-3
reel 7
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 5 folder 4-5
reel 7
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 6 folder 1 (Reel 7) and box 6 folder 2-8 (Reel 8)
reel 8
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 6 folder 2-8
reel 9
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 7 folder 1-7
reel 10
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 7 folder 8-10
reel 10
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 8 folder 1-4
reel 11
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 8 folder 5 (Reel 11)
Drafts and fragments of drafts
reel 11
General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 9 folder 1-3
reel 12
Primarily English translations
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 10 folder 1-7
reel 13
Primarily English translations
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 11 folder 1-8
reel 14
Primarily English translations
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 11 folder 9
reel 14
Primarily English translations
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 12 folder 1-3
reel 14
Russian
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 12 folder 4-8
reel 15
Russian
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 12 folder 9
reel 15
English
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 1-4
reel 15
List of photographs, possibly intended for inclusion in book
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 5
reel 15
Prepublication reviews
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 6
reel 15
Synopses and book proposals
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 7
reel 16
"Deti," Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 8
reel 16
"Di Pi staviat khoroshii rekord v SShA," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 9
reel 16
"Dolina Santa Klary," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 10
reel 16
"Galantnyia prikliucheniia esaula Malygina," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 11
reel 16
"Golova voina," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 12
reel 16
"Goluboe tria-lia-lia," Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 13
reel 16
"Kak pisat'," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 13 folder 14
reel 16
"Kamuflet ili nakazannyi samokhval (iz galantnykh prikliuchenii esaula Malygina v SShA)," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 1
reel 16
["Khunkhuzy"], Holograph and typescript. Includes background materials and drafts
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 2
reel 16
"Krugosvetnoe puteshestvie mistera Stobsa," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 3
reel 16
"Kto lgal? (Soedinennye shtaty protiv Aldzher Khissa)," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 4
reel 16
Letter to the editor, unidentified newspaper, Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 5
reel 16
"Literaturnyi roman ili svoi svoemu ponevole brat," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 6
reel 16
"Moral'nyia kachestva 'belykh'," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 7
reel 16
"Ob obychaiakh i obriadakh pri rodakh inorodcheskikh zhenshchin v Sibiri i Srednei Azii," Typescript (fragments)
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 8
reel 16
"Otboi," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 9
reel 16
"Our Lady of Chenstohov," Holograph (in Russian)
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 10
reel 16
"Povest' o shestnadtsatoi neistrebimoi rote," Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 11
reel 16
"Protsess Kravchenko s tochki zreniia amerikantsa," Holograph and typescript. Includes background material (clippings)
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 12
reel 16
"Put' poslednikh russkikh kniazei," Typescript. Includes English translation entitled "The Way of the Last Russian Princes"
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 13
reel 16
"Razgovor po dusham," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 14
reel 16
Review of
Vestnik Kitaia, Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 15
reel 16
Review of
Vol'naia Sibir', Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 16
reel 16
"Rubin," Typescript. Includes English translation entitled "The Ruby in the Ring"
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 17
reel 17
"Second Sight in Tartary," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 18
reel 23
"Severo-vostochnyi ugol Pekina," See OVERSIZE FILE
undated
reel 17
"Shtab-rotmistr Ianenko-Iankovskii," Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 19
reel 17
"Sibirskiia chastushki," Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 20
reel 17
"Sila russkago slova," Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 21
reel 17
"Sinodik pogibshikh," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 22
reel 17
"Skazka pro Bielago Bychka," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 23
reel 17
"Sovnaglost'," Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 24
reel 17
"A Spit," Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 25
reel 17
"Stiv i Pidro - gruzchiki San-Frantsisko," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 26
reel 17
"Strannyi sluchai gospodina Belfrans," Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 27
reel 17
"Svoboda slova i Amerik. Kommun. Partiia," Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 28
reel 17
Translation of "An Open Letter to Frederic Jolio-Curie," signed by ten Nobel Prize Laureates, Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 14 folder 29
reel 17
Translation of M. Osorgin's "Goluboi kon'," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 1
reel 17
"Ulybka Vyshinskago," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 2
reel 17
Untitled article on Cossacks, Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 3
reel 17
Untitled draft of work on U.S. recognition of U.S.S.R., Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 4
reel 17
Untitled draft of review of Western and émigré books and articles on U.S.S.R., Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 5
reel 17
Untitled memoir of university life, Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 6
reel 17
Untitled summary of notes of A. Jigalin regarding his experiences in China in Holograph
1945-1947
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 7
reel 17
Untitled synopsis of literary work on the Russian Civil War, Holograph
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 8
reel 17
Untitled work on Eugene Lyons, Holograph and typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 9
reel 17
Untitled work on experiences during the Russian Civil War, Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 10
reel 17
Untitled work on front-line experiences in Holograph
1915
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 11
reel 17
Untitled work on Russians in San Francisco, Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 12
reel 17
"Vrediteli," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 13
reel 17
"Vziatie bielymi Troitskosavska i sobytiia na russko-mongol'skoi granitsie g.g.)," undated Typescript
1918-1919
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 14
reel 17
"Znaiut li chto tvoriat," Typescript
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 15
reel 23
"Predel," 1921. See "Predel," and OVERSIZE FILE/Scrapbooks/Clippings I
1930 July 11
reel 17
"Ob Ungernie,"
Novosti zhizni, Printed copy
1921
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 16
reel 17
"Posliednie dni ungernovshchiny,"
Zaria, Printed copy
1921
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 17
reel 17
"Material ob Ungerne," Typescript. Includes "Ob Ungernie," "Konets Ungerna," "Zagovor protiv Ungerna," and "Ungern v Mongolii"
1921-1931
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 18
reel 17
"O dnevnike gen. barona A. Budberga,"
Russkaia zhizn', Background material and printed copy
1928 February 3
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 19
reel 17
"Ideal'nyi dom,"
Russkaia zhizn', Printed copy
1928 June 3
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 20
reel 17
"Schast'e rotmistra Gei-Tur,"
Novaia zaria, Printed copy
1929 January 9
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 21
reel 17
"Istinnyia prikliucheniia," undated Includes English translation entitled "A Job For a Prince" (notarized and correspondence
with Pervaia russkaia kino-studiia, 1924-1931. Typescript
1929 February 23
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 22
reel 17
"Meshchanskiia nastroeniia,"
Novaia zaria, Printed copy
1929 April 13
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 23
reel 17
"Sviazyvaiushchee nachalo," Typescript (under the pseudonym of Ivan Zuda)
1929 June 29
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 24
reel 17
"Predel,"
Russkaia zhizn', Typescript and printed copy. Possibly related to a 1921 article of the same title
1930 July 11
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 25
reel 18
"A Descendant of Genghis Khan,"
Asia, Printed copy. Includes drafts in English and Russian, entitled "Stepnoi aristocrat." Also includes biographical information
1931 November
reel 18
Untitled profiles of Russian emigrants in the United States, or 1933. Typescript
1932
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 27
reel 18
"East and West,"
Novaia zaria, Typescript of English translation. Includes review of Grace Burrough's dance concert by Flora Reif
1932 January 23
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 28
V pyli chuzhikh dorogBerlin
[1933]
reel 18
Typescript
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 15 folder 29-30
reel 18
Proofs
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 1
reel 18
Printed copy
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 2
reel 18
Reviews and correspondence
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 3
reel 18
Review of George Stewart,
The White Armies,
Novaia zaria, Typescript and printed copy. Includes abridged English translation
1933 August 1
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 4
reel 18
"Kogda roga prinosili bogatstvo,"
Novaia zaria, Printed copy
1933 December 16
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 5
reel 18
"Amerikanskii korrespondent,"
Zemlia kolumba, Typescript. Includes abridged English translation
1936 March
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 6
reel 18
"Asia's Oldest Democracy," Typescript. Includes Russian and English drafts and related correspondence
1936
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 7
reel 18
"Zagadochnaia smert' Krivitskago,"
Russkaia zhizn', Printed copy
1949 August 23
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 8
reel 18
"Komissiia Khuvera,"
Russkaia zhizn', Printed copy. Includes notes, background materials, and correspondence
1949 September 17
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 9
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"Kak Gor'kii ispol'zoval amerikanskoe mylo,"
Russkaia mysl', Typescript
1950 May 12
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 10
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Letters to the editor,
Russkaia zhizn', Printed copies. Includes background material and correspondence
1950 August 11
August 30 1950
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 11
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"Krestovyi pokhod za svobodu," Typescript. Includes background material
1950 September 3
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 12
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"Son redaktora," Typescript
1952 September
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 16 folder 13
Subject File
1913-1953
General note
Unless noted otherwise, files consist of clippings and other printed matter
Scope and Contents
Mainly clippings, with some correspondence and writings by others, arranged alphabetically by subject
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Abductions, Political--Europe. Relates to Soviet abductions of anti-Communist figures, particularly in post-World War II Germany,
and to the abduction of Gen. A. P. Kutepov in France
1937
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 1
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American-Russian Institute. Publications and printed matter
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 2
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Beloff, Georgei. Includes letters to the editor and other correspondence by Volkov and others relating to Beloff's article
(also included), "Still Alive,"
Liberty
1933
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 3
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Bridges, Harry
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 4
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Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 5
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Cheka
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 6
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Church of Christ the Savior, Berkeley, CA
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 7
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Communists, California
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 8
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Diplomatic and Consular Service, Soviet Union. Relates to the escape of Oksana Kasenkina from the Soviet consulate in New
York in and subsequent diplomatic scandal
1948
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 9
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Eastern Orthodox Church. SEE Catholicism
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Friends of Fighters for Russian Freedom
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 10
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Grebenshchikov, Georgii
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 11
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Karelina, Mariia Nikolaevna. Correspondence, including letter, describing her escape from the Soviet Union
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 12
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Lavrova (Shapiro), Nadia. Typescript and clippings of her articles in various newspapers
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 13
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Obshchestvo druzei russkoi svobody
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 14
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Orthodox Eastern Church. Relates to activities of Church in Russia as well as in the United States
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 17 folder 15
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Plevitskaia, Nadezhda
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 1
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Press, Russian--Caricatures
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 2
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Propaganda, Anti-Communist--United States. Includes clippings, correspondence and other printed matter relating to activities
of Americans and Russians in this field
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 3
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Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich. Includes correspondence and newspaper issues for (100th anniversary of Pushkin's death)
1937
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 4
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Rasputin, Grigorii
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 5
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Russian Far East. Brief memoir of life and social customs in Transbaikal region, by unidentified author
1900-1922
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 6
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Russian language
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 7
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General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 8
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Shanghai. Includes correspondence and drafts of newspapers articles by various journalists (M. Lidin and others), mainly relating
to the post-World War II period
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 9
Russians--Foreign countries
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General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 10
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'Sovpatrioty'
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 18 folder 11
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Russkaia zhizn'. Editorials materials and correspondence
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 1
Russkii tsentr (Russian Center), San Francisco
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General
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 2
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Clippings
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 3-4
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Russo-Japanese War, -Causes. Brief (6 p.) holograph on origins of war by unidentified participant
1904-1905
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 5
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San Francisco Workers' Alliance
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 6
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San Francisco Workers' School
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 7
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Science, Russian. Includes clippings on Russian and Soviet "firsts": inventions and discoveries
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 8
Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration
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'Nevozvrashchentsy'
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 9
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Soviet attitude toward emigrants
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 10
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'Vozvrashchentsy'
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 19 folder 11
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Tenney, Jack, Senator
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 20 folder 1
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Trebitsch-Lincoln
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 20 folder 2
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Zakharoff, Basil
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 20 folder 3
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Miscellany. Includes clippings on diverse topics from Russian émigré press in China
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 20 folder 4
Printed Matter
1932-1953
Scope and Contents
Unsorted brochures on various topics (mainly communism and anti-communism, as well as China and Mongolia), including some
rare émigré editions
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Brochures on various topics, some rare émigré editions
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 20 folder 5-10
Photographs
circa 1915-1950
Scope and Contents
Ten photographs include one of Volkov, taken during the First World War, three of Russian translators and interpreters working
for the United Nations, and the rest of unidentified people and places
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Ten photographs include one of Volkov, taken probably during the First World War, three of Russian translators and interpreters
working for the United Nations, and the rest of unidentified people and places
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 21 folder 1
Oversize File
1921-1963
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks containing biographical material and writings, as well as oversize writings, arranged alphabetically by physical
form
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Biographical material. Contains brief biography of Volkov by unidentified individual, clippings (Volkov's poems and articles
as well as information about him), correspondence, autographed poems, photograph World War I period)
1963 February 2
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 21 folder 2
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Clippings I. Newspaper articles (by and about Volkov) and Volkov's poems. Includes draft of "Predel" (See SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
for other draft)
1921-1933
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 21 folder 3
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Clippings II. Poems (and one short story)
1925-1937
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 21 folder 4
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Writings. "Severo-vostochnyi ugol Pekina," Background materials, notes and typescript. Includes correspondence and documents
relating to the Russian Orthodox Mission in Peking
undated
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed from box 21 folder 5-6