1885 June 16

Born, Vitebsk Guberniia, Russia

1921

Author, Sila i chelovek, Sovremennaia nemetskaia mysl’: sbornik statei

1922

Arrived in Paris, France, from Tunis, Tunisia

1922-1962

Journalist in the Russian émigré press

1962 April 19

Died, Grasse, France

Box Nos

Series

1

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1954-1985. Includes family correspondence, obituaries, and refugee questionnaire. Arranged by physical form

1

CORRESPONDENCE, 1934-1960. Letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

1

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1947-1957. Arranged chronologically by title

1-54

ZARUBEZHNAIA RUS’ FILE, 1916-1961. Includes author’s catalog of exhibit, description, chronological and subject files, including advertisements, calling cards, clippings, concert programs, consular documents, correspondence, food and ration cards, fundraising documents, obituaries, personal identification cards, photographs, and travel documents

54

PHOTOGRAPHS, 1916-1961. 142 prints, 12 negatives. Includes 1 print of Admiral A. V. Kolchak, 50 prints of Nicholas II and the Romanov family, 12 prints and 3 negatives of N. N. Pilevskii and associated individuals, 19 prints of Russian officers in emigration, 60 prints of Russian Orthodox churches and parish life, and 8 negatives of the “Zarubezhnaia Rus’” exhibit

55

OVERSIZE FILE, 1936. Zhiganov, V. D., Russkie v Shankhaie

56-60

PRINTED MATTER, undated. Unsorted clippings. Boxes 57-60 not filmed

Box
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Contents

1.

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1954-1985

1

Family correspondence, 1962-1985 and undated. Includes letters from V. K. Abdank-Kossovskii to Svetlana and Venedikt Kossovsky (photocopy), from Venedikt Kossovsky to Sergei P. Polonsky, and condolence letter from Grand Duke Vladmir Kirillovich (photocopy)

2

Obituaries, 1962. Clippings

3

Questionnaire from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Refugee department, 1954 and undated. Includes biographical data

CORRESPONDENCE, 1934-1960 and undated. See also BIOGRAPHICAL FILE

4

Unidentified, undated

5

Bulatsel’, Sergei Sergeevich, 1956-1960. Includes “V persidskoi kazachei ego velichestva Shakha divizii,” 1957. Holograph

6

Danilevich, Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1956. Includes “Pod vpechatleniem,” 1956, “Rus’ bogatyrskaia i radost’ bytiia,” 1956, “Spiashchaia krasavitsa,” 1954. Typescript

7

De Clapiers Collongues, Olga, 1944-1956

Gornyi, Sergei. See Otsup, Aleksandr

8

Gogina, Ol’ga Vasilievna, 1935

9

Isaenko, Evgeniia S., 1958

10

Kletnova, Ekaterina Nikolaevna, 1934

11

Markov, Anatolii L’vovich, 1951-1956

12

Nikulins, Teopont E., 1956

13

Otsup, Aleksandr (pseudonym Sergei Gornyi), 1934

14

Pastac, Isaak Abramovich, 1944

15

Rantanen, N., 1944

16

Savin, N., 1957

17

Strakhovsky, Leonid Ivanovich, undated

18

Sviatoslavskii, N., undated

19

Volzhenskii, Aleksei Mitrofanovich, 1944

20

Vuich, Georgii Ivanovich, 1944

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1947-1957 and undated

General

21

Newspaper articles, 1947 and undated. Published mainly in Rossiia

22

Notes, 1956 and undated

23

“Anna Iaroslavna v Sandisie,” undated. Typescript

24

“Chudo chelovecheskikh predpriiatii,” undated. Typescript

25

“Ko dniu proslavleniia sv. kniazia Vladimira,” undated. Typescript

26

“Ko dniu sv. ravnoaposol’nago kniazia Vladimira,” undated. Typescript

27

“Mozhno bylo terpiet’ stavku Batyia, no ‘Leningrad’ nel’zia preterpiet’,” undated. Typescript

28

“O russkom ofitsere,” undated. Typescript

29

“O tom kak tsar’ Ivan Vasil’evich Groznyi gotovilsia emigrirovat’ v Angliiu,” undated. Typescript, incomplete. Includes newspaper clipping related to topic

30

“O voinie,” undated. Typescript with handwritten notes

31

“O zachatii i zdanii tsarstvuiushchago grada S.-Peterburga v lieto ot pervago dnia Adama 7211 po Rozhdestvie Iisusa Khrista 1703 goda,” undated. Typescript

32

“Paradiz Petra,” undated. Typescript

33

“Peterburgu byt’ pustu,” undated. Typescript

34

“Vasil’evskii ostrov,” undated. Holograph

35

“K predstoiashchemu iubileiu Sankt-Peterburga,” 1953. Typescript

36

“Fevral’skoe prestuplenie 1917-1957,” 1957. Typescript

ZARUBEZHNAIA RUS’ FILE, 1916-1961.
Materials chronicle the life of Russian émigrés in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. Includes advertisements, calling (visiting) cards, clippings, concert programs and announcements, consular documents, correspondence, drawings, food and rations cards, fundraising documents, obituaries, personal identification documents, printed matter, signed orders (by White Army generals Petr N. Vrangel’, Evgenii K. Miller and others), photographs, and travel documents

General

Catalog, undated

37

Part I

38

Part II

39

List of periodicals and print materials originally held as part of V. K. Abdank-Kossovskii’s “Zarubezhnaia Rus’” collection, but not part of the present papers, undated

40

Unkovskii, Vladimir N. Description of “Zarubezhnaia Rus’” exhibit, 1944. Printed copy

Negatives (8) of exhibit, undated.
SEE PHOTOGRAPHS

Chronological file

2.

1916-1920. Materials chronicle the fate of the Russian White Army in the North as well as the evacuation from the Crimea and refugee life. Also includes materials on Empress Maria Feodorovna

3.

1921. Includes materials on Russian refugee camps at Gallipoli, Lemnos, Sidi-Bishr (Egypt), the activities of the Russian Press Office and the Russian Consulate in Constantinople, the Russian Red Cross, the Russian National University in Paris, life at the sanatorium of the Russian Red Cross on the Adriatic Sea. Also includes original photographs of generals Petr N. Vrangel’, Aleksandr P. Kutepov, Vladimir K. Vitkovksii, a signed photograph of General A. P. Bogaevskii

4.

1922-1924. Includes materials on Grand Dukes Nikolai Nikolaevich and Kirill Vladimirovich, Zinaida N. Gippius and Dmitri S. Merezhkovskii, documents signed by generals Petr N. Vrangel’ and Aleksandr P. Kutepov

5.

1925-1927. Includes materials on the Institut St. Serge in Paris, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Boris S. Koverda, Ivan S. Shmelev, Reverend Innokentii Seryshev, documents signed by generals Petr N. Vrangel’ and Evgenii K. Miller, letters from Prince Vladimir A. Krasinskii to Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii

6.

1928-1929. Includes materials on the editorial board of Vozrozhdenie, the Russian Christian Student Movement, the Gallipoli Society and other veterans organizations, cadet corps, Cossack dzhigit groups, Russian opera and theatre in Paris, Russian parishes in Belgrade, Boulogne-Biancoure and Ugine (France). Also includes clippings on the death and funerals of Empress Maria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, and General Petr N. Vrangel’

7.

1929-1930. Includes materials on the Brotherhood of Russian Truth (Bratstvo Russkoi Pravdy), Russian ballet in Rio de Janeiro, cinema, Russian secondary schools, Russian chamber of commerce in Paris. Also includes materials on the kidnapping of General Aleksandr P. Kutepov, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, and rare photos of Metropolitan Antonii (Khrapovitskii) visiting a Russian Cadet Corps

8.

1930-1931. Includes materials on the Gallipoli Society, cadet corps, Russian soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, fundraising documents for the search for General Aleksandr P. Kutepov and his kidnappers, Alexander I. Kuprin’s novel Iunkera, including a handwritten and signed excerpt from the novel

9.

1931-1932. Includes materials on the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), Russian soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Also includes a letter signed by Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna

10.

1932-1933. Includes materials on Vozrozhdenie, Bishop Vladimir (Tikhonitskii), Rev. Innokentii Seryshev, Ivan A. Bunin (receipt of the Nobel Prize), Nikolai N. Golovin

11.

1934. Includes materials on Russian scouting organizations, Russian fascists in Brazil, the Sokol movement. Also includes materials on the murder of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

12.

1934. Includes materials on literary circles in France and Eastern Europe, Nikolai K. Roerich, Rev. Innokentii Seryshev

13.

1934-1935. Includes materials on the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), Count Mikhail N. Grabbe, Aleksander L. Kazem-Bek and the Mladorossy (Young Russians), Metropolitan Evlogii (Georgievskii)

14.

1935. Includes materials on the Kondakov Institute in Prague, and a memorial gathering in memory of Admiral Aleksandr V. Kolchak, attended by generals Anton I. Denikin and Evgenii K. Miller

15.

1935-1936. Includes a photograph of members of Platoff’s Don Cossack choir with Metropolitan Evlogii (Georgievskii) and General Evgenii K. Miller

16.

1936-1937. Includes materials on Nikolai P. Afonskii’s choir, Platoff’s Don Cossack Choir, the Miss Russia pageant, Olga I. Preobrazhenskaia’s ballet studio in Paris, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), the Russian Nobility Association in Paris. Also includes materials on the kidnapping of General Evgenii K. Miller, and the role of General Nikolai V. Skoblin and his wife Nadezhda V. Plevitskaia

17.

1937. Includes materials on Metropolitan Evlogii (Georgievskii), the kidnapping of General Evgenii K. Miller, General Nikolai V. Skoblin, Sergei N. Tretiakov

18.

1937-1938. Includes materials on orphanages, the Russian cathedral in Shanghai, the Russian Church in China, General Dmitrii L. Khorvat, the kidnapping of General Evgenii K. Miller, and the court proceedings against Nadezhda V. Plevitskaia; Iakov L. Rubinshtein, Rev. Innokentii Seryshev

19.

1938-1939. Includes materials on celebrations of the 950th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’, the Russian cemetery at St. Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris. Also includes materials on grand dukes Kirill Vladimirovich and Vladimir Kirillovich, the funeral of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Russian soldiers in General Francisco Franco’s army

20.

1939-1940. Includes materials on the Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Paris, the Russian colony in Kharbin, Russian officers in the French Army, Russian writers in the diaspora. Also includes materials on Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, Pavel N. Miliukov, Anastasii A. Vonsiatskii

21.

1940-1942. Includes materials on the official representation of Russian émigrés in France, the Russian nursing home “Maison Russe”. Also includes materials on Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii’s project “Zarubezhnaia Rus’”, Andrei F. Meiendorff, an original letter by Aleksei M. Remizov

22.

1942-1944. Includes Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii’s article “Rossiia v izgnanii”, materials on Cossack divisions in the German army, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in Vienna, descendants of Tsar Nicholas I in the diaspora, famous Russian émigrés deceased in France during the German occupation, Russian émigrés in the German Army, the Russian Liberation Army (ROA). Also includes materials on Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, generals Petr N. Krasnov and Andrei A. Vlasov, Ekaterina P. Dostoevskaia, Iurii L. Voitsekhovskii

23.

1944-1946. Includes materials on Cossack divisions in the German army, Russian gypsies in France, the Russian Liberation Army (ROA). Also includes materials on Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii, generals Anton I. Denikin, Petr N. Krasnov and Andrei A. Vlasov, metropolitans Anastasii (Gribanovskii), and Evlogii (Georgievskii).

24.

1946-1948. Includes materials on displaced persons camps, the Russian Museum in Prague, the Russian Orthodox parish in Vanves near Paris, Russian émigrés in the French resistance. Also includes materials on Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii’s arrest, Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich

25.

1948-1949. Includes materials on the Museum and Archives of Russian Culture in San Francisco, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), the Russian Orthodox Church in Palestine, Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii’s exhibit “Zarubezhnaia Rus’”, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich

26.

1949-1950. Includes materials on Archbishop Ioann (Maksimovich), the Orthodox Church in America, the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in the Holy Land

27.

1950-1951. Includes materials on displaced persons camps in Kellerberg and Schleissheim, the Eighth All American Sobor of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, and the Union of Russian Engineers in France. Also includes materials on Boris M. Chetverukhin, Prince Aleksandr N. Iskander, Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna, and Ivan S. Shmelev

28.

1951-1952. Includes materials on the Hermitage of Our Lady of Kursk in Mahopac, N.Y., the House of Free Russia, Inc., the Russian Anticommunist Center in New York, and Pavel A. Savich

29.

1952-1954. Includes materials on Vladimir K. Abdank-Kossovskii’s exhibit “Zarubezhnaia Rus’,” General Konstantin K. Agoev, M. A. Bozhenko-Karneeva, Russian cadet corps, Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, N.Y., Prince Aleksandr N. Iskander, Resurrection Russian Orthodox Church in Meudon, France, ROVA Farms in New Jersey, and Russian veterans in Nice, France

30.

1954-1958. Includes materials on the Diocesan Assembly of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in May 1954, the Gallipoli Society, the Hermitage of Our Lady of Kursk, Holy Trinity Monastery, House of Free Russia in New York, Metropolitan Anastasii (Gribanovskii), General Viacheslav G. Naumenko, P. A. Savich

31.

1954-1955. Includes materials on Archbishop Vitalii (Maksimenko), Bikhop Nikon (Rklitskii), Grand Duke Gavriil Konstantinovich, General Viacheslav G. Naumenko

32.

1956, 1958. Includes materials on Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, Vladimir M. Despotuli, Georgii D. Grebenshchikov, Boris S. Koverda, Vsevolod K. Levashev (Dubrovskii), and the Tolstoy Foundation

33.

1959-1961. Includes materials on the consecration of the Synodal Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in New York, and Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna

34.

Subject file.
Includes clippings from émigré periodical publications, original documents, photographs, and other materials

1

Atlantis

2

Byzantium

3

Calendar reform

4-6

Carpatho-Rusyns

7

Cossacks

8

Den’ Neprimiromosti

9

Displaced persons

10

Eichmann, Adolf. Relates to his trial in Jerusalem in 1961

11-12

France

35.

1

Freemasons

2

Grebenshchikov, Georgii Dmitrievich

3

Iskander, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Prince. Includes biographical sketch, calling cards, correspondence

4

Katyn’ Forest massacre

5

Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia

6-7

Monarchy

36.

1-2

Monarchy (contd.)

3

Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz

4-7

Nicholas II, 1894-1917

37.

1-5

Nicholas II (contd.)

6

Numismatics

7

Ob”edinenie russkikh dvorian

8

Occult

38.

1

Performing Arts

2

Philately

3

Red Cross

4-5

Romanov, House of. Includes materials on Imperial Family members in the diaspora

Russia

6

General

7-10

Anthropology

39.

1-3

Anthropology (contd.)

4

Cadet corps

5

Censorship, printing

6-7

Colonization of America

8

Feasts

40.

1-2

National symbols

Russia--History--Revolution, 1917-1921

3-4

General

5

Intellectuals

6

Russia (Territory under White Armies, 1918-1920). North Russia. Orders and other documents signed by General Evgenii K. Miller

7

Russian Boy Scouts

8

Russian discoverers and inventors

41

Russian émigré organizations

1

General

2

Official forms

3-4

Russian émigré press

5

Russian fascists

6

Russian intelligentsia

7-8

Russian language. Includes materials on old orthography

9-10

Russian literature. Includes materials on Dostoevsky, Khomiakov, Pushkin, Tolstoy

42.

1-2

Russian military émigrés

3

Russian Revolutionary Forces

4

Russian women

5

Russian youth organizations

Russians--Foreign countries

6-7

General

43.

1

General (Contd.)

2

Albania

3-7

Africa. Includes materials on Abyssinia, Algeria, Egypt, South Africa, Tunis

44.

1

Asia

2-3

Australia

4

Austria

5

Baltic states. Includes materials on Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

6

Belgium

45.

1

Bulgaria

2

China. See also OVERSIZE FILE

3

Czechoslovakia

4

Europe. Includes materials on Denmark, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland

5-7

France. Includes materials on Russians in Cannes, Grasses, Nice, Paris

46.

1-7

France (contd.)

47.

1-6

France (contd.)

48.

1

France (contd.)

2

Great Britain

3

Greece

4

Holland

5

Luxembourg

6

Poland

South America

7

Argentina

8

Brazil

49.

1

Paraguay, Uruguay

2

Spain

3

Turkey

United States and North America

4-5

General

50.

United States and North America (Contd.)

1-5

General (Contd.)

51.

1-3

General (Contd.)

4

Cultural events

5-6

Performing arts

7

Yugoslavia

52.

1

Yugoslavia (Contd.)

2

Russkaia osvoboditel’naia armiia

Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’

3

General

4

Announcements

5

Baptism of Rus’ anniversary

6

Bell ringing

7

Clergy

8

Destruction of churches

9

Institut St. Serge, Paris, France

10

Monasteries

53.

1

Parishes in the diaspora

2

Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

3

Russkii korpus

4

Russkoe studencheskoe khristianskoe Dvizhenie

5

Separatism

6-8

Siberia and the Russian Far East

9

Slavs

54.

1

Union pour la defense des peoples oprimes

2

Vserossiiskii soiuz russkikh natsional’nykh obshchin

Miscellany

3

Announcements (large format, 1914 and undated)

4

Calling cards

PHOTOGRAPHS, 1916-1961

5

Kolchak, Admiral Aleksandr Vasil’evich, 1919. One print

6

Nicholas II and family. Fifty prints

7

Pilevskii, Nikolai Nikiforovich, and various unidentified individuals, 1921-1961 and undated. Twelve prints, three negatives

8

Russian officers in emigration, 1916-1953. Nineteen prints

9

Russian Orthodox Church, 1927-1959 and undated. Sixty prints

10

“Zarubezhnaia Rus’” exhibit, undated. Eight negatives

55.

OVERSIZE FILE, 1936. Zhiganov, Vladimir Daniilovich, Russkie v Shangkhaie, 1936. Printed copy

56.-60.

PRINTED MATTER, undated. Clippings from various émigré newspapers and other sources. Box 57-60 not filmed. Originals retained by Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary