Konstantin Stavrovich Cherkassov (Lagoridov), born 1921
Konstantin Stavrovich Cherkassov was born Konstantin Lagoridov in Taganrog, Russia, on March 2, 1921. He adopted his new name after World War II to escape forced repatriation to the Soviet Union. During the War, he joined General Andrei Vlasov’s Russkaia osvoboditel’naia armiia, and was a captain in the 5th Cossack Division under the command of General Ivan Kononov, serving later as reconnaissance officer. Cherkassov first assumed the last name Dulshers and lived in the immediate afterwar period in a displaced persons camp in Parsch, Austria. In 1949 he immigrated to Australia, where he worked as a gardener. The collection contains Cherkassov’s novel “Mezhdu dvukh ognei” in manuscript form, in which he drew on facts experienced first-hand as a former member of the Rossiiskaia osvoboditel’naia armiia.
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 Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also provides for depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives.
The original materials are the property of Holy Trinity Seminary.