Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov

A Register Of His Papers, 1884-1973
At Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Prepared by Vladimir Von Tsurikov

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Jordanville, New York
2007

Descriptive Summary

Collection Title:
Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov Papers, 1884-1973

Creator:
Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov

Extent:
5 manuscript boxes
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 literary activities of General Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov, Don Cossack Ataman, writer and historian. Most of his writings in emigration focus on the events leading up to the Russian revolution, as well as on the revolution and its aftermath themselves. Krasnov also focused on the history of the Don Cossacks.

Language:
Russian

Biographical Note

1869 September 22

Born, St. Petersburg, Russia

1888

Graduated, Pavlovskoe voennoe uchilishche

1903

Author, Po Azii. Putevye ocherki Manchzhurii, Dalniago Vostoka, Kitaia, Iaponii i Indii

1910

Colonel, commanding officer, 1st Siberian Cossack regiment

1913

Commanding officer, 10th Don Cossack regiment

1914

Major General, commanding officer, 1st Don division

1917

Commanding officer, 3rd Cavalry corps

1918

Elected ataman of Don Cossacks

1918

Retired

1921

Author, Ot dvuglavogo orla k krasnomu znameni, 1894-1921

1922

Author, Vsevelikoe voisko donskoe

1923

Author, Poniat’-prostit’: roman v 4 chastiakh

1927

Author, Dusha armii: ocherki o voennoi psikhologii

1931

Author, Vypash

1937

Author, Nakanunie voiny: iz zhizni pogranichnogo garnizona

1943

Head of Cossack units within the German Army

1945

Turned over by the British Army to Soviet authorities, along with thousands of Cossacks at Lienz, Austria

1947 January 16

Executed, Moscow (?), USSR

Scope And Content Note

These papers reflect the literary activities of General Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov, Don Cossack Ataman, writer and historian. Most of his writings in emigration focus on the events leading up to the Russian revolution, as well as on the revolution and its aftermath themselves. Krasnov also focused on the history of the Don Cossacks. His writings have been published in translation in English, German and other languages. This collection consists of detailed correspondence mainly related to his writings and personal matters, and also reviews of his published works. The SPEECHES AND WRITINGS FILE consists mainly of correspondence related to and reviews of his writings.

The SUBJECT FILE consists of various materials on the Don Cossacks, including minutes of meetings, reports, official documents and publications, dating from 1917 to 1944.

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

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1884-1969 and undated. Articles, clippings, family file. Arranged alphabetically by physical form

1-3

CORRESPONDENCE, 1919-1944 and undated. Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

3-5

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1910-1944 and undated. Includes articles, contracts, correspondence relating to author’s writings, reviews in different languages, arranged according to original order

5

DON COSSACK FILE, 1917-1935 and undated. Official documents, correspondence, reports and publications of the Don Cossacks, arranged alphabetically by physical form

5

PRINTED MATTER, 1929-1931. Newspaper and pamphlets, signed and dedicated to P. N. Krasnov

5

PHOTOGRAPHS, 1922-1973. Twenty-six prints of Don Cossacks

Container List

Box Nos

Folder Nos

Contents

1.

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1884-1969 and undated

1

Biographical sketch, “Portrait-Etude P. N. K. . .a,” 1936. Holograph

Clippings, 1913-1969 and undated

2

General, 1913-1933 and undated

3

Fortieth anniversary of Krasnov’s literary activities, 1931 and undated. Includes related letter addressed to Konstantin Sergeevich ?

4

Fiftieth anniversary of Krasnov being elevated to rank of officer, 1939 and undated

5

Hundredth anniversary of Krasnov’s birth, 1969

Family file, 1884

6

Letter, originally accompanied by a print of the tsarevich Nicholas, forwarded as a gift to Nikolai I. Krasnov by Alexander III, 1884

CORRESPONDENCE, 1919-1944

7

General - Athonite monks, 1930

Unidentified, 1919-1943, and undated

8

General, 1919-1943

9

Anastasiia (?), undated

10

Anna Nikolaevna (?), 1923-1936 and undated. Includes three newspaper clippings

11

Mila (?), 1943

12

Nadezhda (?), 1939

13

Petr (?), 1931

14

Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Valentinovich, 1922-1935

15

Anastasii (Gribanovskii), Metropolitan, 1938

16

Annenkov, Boris V., Ataman, 1920

17

Antonii (Khrapovitskii), Metropolitan, 1928-1935 and undated

18

Artifeksov, Leonid Aleksandrovich, undated

19

Baikov, Nikolai Arkad’evich, 1935-1936

20

Berezovskii, Efim Prokop’evich, 1936

21

Bratstvo Prepodobnogo Iova Pochaevskogo, 1936

22

Buliubash, Evgenii Grigorievich, 1938

23

Chebotareva, T., undated. Incomplete letter

24

Chebotari, Mariia, 1940

25

Cheslavskii, Vasilii Vladimirovich, undated

26

Chikhachev, Vladimir, undated

27

Cochenhausen, von, Conrad, 1939-1943 and undated

Denisov, Sviatoslav Varlaamovich

28

Undated

29

1921-1922

2.

1

1923-1929

2

1930-1938

3

1939-1940

4

D’iakova, E., 1930

5

Durnovo, Sofiia Petrovna, undated

6

Eletskii, Leonid Vasil’evich, Prince, 1925

7

Fond imeni velikago kniazia Nikolaia Nikolaevicha, 1929

Galich, Iurii. See Goncharenko, Iurii, 1938

8

Glaz, Ol’ga, 1922-1938 and undated

9

Glovatskii, Boris, 1938

10

Goncharenko, Iurii, 1932-1936

11

Grebenshchikov, Georgii, undated

12

Herrick, Byron (U.S. Ambassador in Paris), undated

13

Ioann (?), Archimandrite, 1941

14

Ionov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, 1928

15

Juvin, Lucien, 1929 and undated

16

Kasatkin-Rostovskii, Feodor Nikolaevich, 1935-1941 and undated

17

Khodnev, Dmitrii, 1933-1938

18

Kira Kirillovna, Grand Duchess, 1939

19

Koverda, Boris, 1937-1938

20

Leikhtenbergskii (Leuchtenberg), Georgii Nikolaevich, 1925

21

Leikhtenbergskii (Leuchtenberg), Konstantin, 1938

22

Militsa Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, 1924-1943 and undated

23

Miller, Evgenii K., General, 1930-1931

24

Nikolai, Grand Duke of Russia, 1923

25

Olga Aleksandrovna, Grand Duchess, 1927

26

Omerov, Nika, undated

27

Orekhov, Vasilii Vasil’evich, 1938

28

Paleolog, Sergei Nikolaevich, 1924-1929

29

Popov, K, 1934

30

Popova, N., undated

31

Postoronkin, Vladimir Nikitich, 1936

32

Roman Petrovich, Prince, 1932

33

Shcherbachev, A., undated

34

Shinkarenko, N., 1936-1937

35

Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1936

36

Skripkina, Vera, 1937

37

Struve, Petr, 1936

38

Suvorin, Aleksei Alekseevich, 1921-1922 and undated

39

Suvorin, Mikhail Alekseevich, 1922-1929

40

Svechin, Mikhail Andreevich, 1929

41

Turoverov, Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1938-1941

42

Vechernee Vremia, 1919

3.

1

Velikoshnaia, T., 1922

2

Vera Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess, 1941

3

Vinogradov, Vasilii, Archpriest, 1930

4

Volkova, Mariia, 1943-1944. Includes photograph

5

Vrangel’, Ol’ga, undated

6

Vrangel’, Petr Nikolaevich, 1926 and undated

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1910-1944 and undated

General

Open letters, 1921-1934

7

Miscellaneous, 1922-1934 and undated

8

Pis’ma kazakam, 1921-1927

9

“Kto ubival russkikh tsarei,” 1921. Photocopy

10

Lectures, 1936 and undated

11

“Ob organizatsiiakh,” 1921. Photocopy

Correspondence, 1921-1944

General

12

Bookstore “Grad Kitezh,” 1922-1923 and undated

13

Contracts, documents related to publishing houses and bookstores, 1921-1923 and undated

14

Controversy regarding Krasnov’s article “Tuda i ottuda,” 1928 and undated.

15

General, 1923-1943 and undated. Includes letters, newspaper clipping

16

Amazonka pustyni, 1932-1939 and undated

17

Belaia svitka, 1928-1944 and undated

18

Bozhii tron, 1922

19

Domoi, 1936-1943 and undated

20

Dusha armii, 1928-1941

21

Edinaia nedelimaia, 1925-1940 and undated

22

Ekaterina Velikaia, 1935-1941 and undated

23

Istoricheskie ocherki Dona, 1944

24

Kazaki v Abessinii, 1941

25

Largo, 1931-1943 and undated

26

Lozh’, 1939-1942 and undated

27

Mantyk, 1935-1939 and undated

28

Na rubezhe Kitaia, 1938-1939 and undated

29

Nakanune voiny, 1936-1938

30

Nenavist’, 1934-1935 and undated. Includes correspondence relating to literary award

31

Opavshie list’ia, 1923-1924

4.

1

Ot dvuglavogo orla k krasnomu znameni, 1923-1943 and undated

2

Pavlony, 1926-1944

3

Podvig, 1932 and undated. Includes letter from Patriarch Varnava (Rusich)

4

Poniat’-Prostit’, 1924-1943 and undated

5

S Ermakom na Sibir’, 1930

6

S kazakami i kavkazkimi gotsami, 1943

7

S nami Bog, 1927 and undated

8

Tsareubiitsy, 1938-1943 and undated

9

Tsesarevna, 1933-1934 and undated

10

Venok na mogilu neizvestnomu soldatu, 1928

11

Vse prokhodit, 1926-1931 and undated

12

Vsevelikoe voisko donskoe, undated

13

Vypash, 1931-1943 and undated

14

Za chertopolokhom, 1922-1923 and undated

Reviews, 1910-1944 and undated. Includes reviews in Dutch, English, French and German

15

General, 1920-1938

16

Amazonka pustyni, 1922-1925

17

Arkhiv russkoi revoliutsii, 1921-1922 and undated

18

Belaia svitka, 1928-1930 and undated

19

Domoi, 1936-1940

20

Dusha armii, 1927-1940 and undated

21

Edinaia-nedelimaia, 1925-1926 and undated

22

Ekaterina Velikaia, 1937-1940 and undated

5.

1

Kartiny bylogo tikhogo dona, 1910

2

Largo, 1930

3

Lozh’, undated

4

Mantyk, 1929

5

Na rubezhe Kitaia, 1939 and undated

6

Nakanune voiny, 1936-1937

7

Nenavist’, 1934-1939 and undated

Reviews, 1910-1944 and undated (Contd.)

8

Opavshie list’ia, 1923-1929

9

Ot dvuglavogo orla k krasnomu znameni, 1921-1939 and undated

10

Pavlony, 1944

11

Poniat’-prostit’, 1924-1929 and undated

12

S Ermakom na sibir’, 1930 and undated

13

S nami Bog, 1927

14

Step’, 1925-1931

15

Tsareubiitsy, 1938-1940 and undated

16

Tsesarevna, 1933 and undated

17

V Manchzhurskoi glushi, undated

18

Vse prokhodit, 1925-1927 and undated

19

Vypash’, 1931 and undated

20

Za chertopolokhom, 1922

DON COSSACK FILE, 1917-1935 and undated

21

Don Cossacks in France. Includes materials on the elections of a new Don Cossack ataman, 1935 and undated

22

Kazachii soiuz v Amerike. Includes lists of members, minutes of meetings, statutes, 1934 and undated

23

Obshchestvo revnitelei donskoi istorii i pravdy, 1921

24

Official publication of the Vsevelikoe voisko donskoe, title page missing. Includes decisions made by the 4th gathering dedicated to education, 1918. Printed copy

25

Reports No. 361 and 372, signed by Major General Krasnov, 1917

26

Sbornik uzakonenii i rasporiazhenii, 1918. Printed copy

27

Shurashov, Ivan, “VI-mu eparkhial’nomu s”ezdu, Donskoi staroobriadcheskoi eparkhii. Doklad,” 1918. Printed copy

PRINTED MATTER, 1929-1931

28

Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr, “Literatura v izgnanii,” 1929, and “Una letteratura in esilio,” 1930. Printed copies. Dedicated to Petr N. Krasnov and signed by author

29

Sibirskii kazak, 1931. Newspaper signed by A. G. Gryzov, dedicated to Petr N. Krasnov

30

PHOTOGRAPHS, 1922-1973. Twenty-six prints of Don Cossacks in the diaspora; includes one print of Viacheslav Ivanovich Volkov, signed on reverse by his daughter, and eight prints from a Cossack in Paraguay