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Information for Researchers
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Series Description
Container List
Project Description
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Vasilii Ivanovich Alekseev

A Register of His Papers, 1954-1967
At Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Prepared by Vladimir von Tsurikov

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Jordanville, New York
2008

© 2008 Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Collection Title
Vasilii Ivanovich Alekseev Papers, 1954-1967

Creator
Vasilii Ivanovich Alekseev

Extent
4 manuscript boxes (1.6 linear feet)

Repository
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
P.O. Box 36, Jordanville, New York, 13361
Phone/Fax: (315) 858-0945
Email: info@hts.edu
http://www.hts.edu

Abstract
These papers reflect the writings and research interests of Vasilii Ivanovich Alekseev, a historian, writer, and professor in emigration. Among his writings are works related to the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union under the German occupation.

Arrangement Statement
The collection is organized into three series: Correspondence, Speeches and writings, and Subject file

Physical Location
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York

Language:
English, German, and Russian

Information for Researchers

Access
The collection is open for research

Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vasilii Ivanovich Alekseev Papers, [Box no.], Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in 2001

Alternate Forms Available
Partial collection is available on Microfilm

Related Collection
V. I Alekseev Papers, T.C. Anderson library, University of Minnesota

Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the online catalog.

Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’--History.
Soviet Union--History.
Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.

Biographical Note

1906 October 6

Born, Vladimir, Russia

1930

Graduated, Moscow State University

1930

Arrested and sentenced to five years in prison camp

1934

Released from prison camp

1941

Drafted

1942

POW camp, Germany

1951

Arrived in the United States

1952

Author, Nevidimaia Rossiia

1954

Author, Rossiia soldatskaia

1955-1975

Taught Russian history, University of Minnesota

1955

Author, The foreign policy of the Moscow Patriarchate, 1939-1953: materials for the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S.S.R.

1962

Author, The two Russian revolutions of 1917

1967

Defended Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota

1976

Author, The great revival: the Russian Church under German occupation

1990

Author, Rol’ tserkvi v sozdanii russkoi gosudarstva: period ot nashestviia tatar do Ivana III

2002 October 8

Died, Minneapolis, MN

Scope and Content Note

These papers reflect the writings and research interests of Vasilii Ivanovich Alekseev, a historian, writer, and professor in emigration. Among his writings are works related to the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union under the German occupation. The Speeches and writings and Subject file include notes and copied archival documents, relating to Alekseev’s dissertation, and research interests.

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 Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials remain in the Holy Trinity Seminary Archives as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is appended to this register. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Series Description

Box Nos

Series

1

Correspondence, 1954 and undated.
Letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

1

Speeches and writings, 1967 and undated.
Articles, monographs, and notes, arranged chronologically by title

2-4

Subject file, undated.
Photocopies of archival documents, notes and citations from published works. Not filmed

Container List

Box Nos

Folder Nos

Contents

1.

Correspondence, 1954-1958 and undated

1

Leontii, Bishop, 1954

2

Shchukin, Sergei, Reverend, undated

3

Vissarion (Pui), Metropolitan, 1958. Includes “L’Archeveque Roumain Vissarion en Transnistrie (Ucraine) en 1943,” undated typescript

Speeches and writings, 1967 and undated

Notes, undated

4

General

5

Interviews

6

Notebook

7

German legislation in regards to the Russian Orthodox Church, 1941-1944

8

Ministry for Eastern Territories, Third Reich

9

Records of the Security police of the Third Reich

10

Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’--History--Belarus

11

Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’--History--Poland

12

Smolensk archives

13

Ukrainian Orthodox Church, biographical data on hierarchs

14

World War, 1939-1945, Camp Plattling, Germany

15

Zhurnal moskovskoi patriarkhii

16

“Moskovskaia patriarkhiia, religioznyi pod”em v Rossii i sovetskaia propaganda,” undated. Typescript

17

“Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’ na okkupirovannoi nemtsami territorii,” undated. Typescript

18

“Smert’ ekzarkha Sergiia Voskresenskogo i vybory moskovskogo patriarkha v svete sekretnykh nemetskikh dokumentov,” undated. Typescript, includes notes

“The Russian Orthodox Church under German occupation,” 1967.

19

Bibliography

20-21

Typescript. Includes related notes

2-4.

Subject file, undated. Not filmed, originals retained by Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Includes photocopies from various archives, as well as related notes and citations from published works

Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’--History

Soviet Union--History

Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Includes materials on the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus, and the Ukraine