View options:
Standard
Entire finding aid

Contents:
Descriptive Summary
Information for Researchers
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Series Description
Container List
Project Description
List of Collections

Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich

A Register of His Papers, 1921-1965
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:
Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich Papers, 1921-1965

Creator:
Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich

Extent:
2 manuscript boxes, (0.8 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 provide insight into the life of the Orthodox Church in Poland in the Interwar period. Aleksander K. Svitich, a theologian and member of the faculty of the Vilno Theological Seminary, served on the editorial board of Za svobodu, a Russian émigré newspapers, to which he contributed numerous articles, at times using his pen name Tuberozov. Reflected in these papers are also Svitich’s research interests.

Arrangement Statement:
The collection is organized into five series: Biographical file, Correspondence, Speeches and writings, Subject file, and Printed matter

Physical Location:
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York

Language:
Polish, 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], Aleksandr Kallinikovich Svitich Papers, [Box no.], Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Alternate Forms Available
Full collection is available on Microfilm]

Related Collection(s)
Archbishop Apollinarii (Koshevoi) Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Vladislav Albionovich Maevskii Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Konstantin Nikolaevich Nikolaev Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Nikolai D. Talberg Papers, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

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

Eastern Catholic Church.
Orthodox Eastern Church--Poland--History--20th century.
Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America.
Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’ zagranitsei.
Poland--History.

Biographical Note

1890 March 15

Born, Vilno, Russian Empire

19??

Graduated, Theological faculty, Warsaw University

19??

Professor, Vilno Theological Seminary

1921-1932

Editorial board member (pen name Tuberozov), Za svobodu

1930-1933

Editor, V ograde tserkovnoi

1950

Arrived in the U.S.A.

1959

Author, Pravoslavnaia Tserkov’ v Pol’she i ee avtokefaliia

1963 August 17

Died, Denver, CO

Scope and Content Note

These papers provide insight into the life of the Orthodox Church in Poland in the Interwar period. Aleksander K. Svitich, a theologian and member of the faculty of the Vilno Theological Seminary, served on the editorial board of Za svobodu, a Russian émigré newspapers, to which he contributed numerous articles, at times using his pen name Tuberozov. Reflected in these papers are also Svitich’s research interests.

The Subject file contains documents pertaining to the activities of the Orthodox Church in the Unites States. Noteworthy are the correspondence of Archbishop Arsenii (Chakhovtsev), and Archbishop Irinei (Bekish), and documents relating to the Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’ zagranitsei.

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, 1927-1950 and undated.
Address of gratitude, Peretrukhin-Svitich controversy file, arranged alphabetically by physical form

1

Correspondence, 1926-1949.
Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

1

Speeches and writings, 1926-1961 and undated.
Articles, clippings, letter to the editor, notes, arranged chronologically by title

1-2

Subject file, 1921-1965 and undated.
Bylaws, clippings, correspondence, minutes, notebook, pamphlets, reports, research notes, resolutions, arranged alphabetically by subject

2

Printed matter, 1930-1933.
Catalog and clippings

Container List

Box Nos

Folder Nos

Contents

1.

Biographical file, 1927-1950 and undated

1

Address of gratitude of the Russian Orthodox deanery of the French occupation zone in Germany, 1950

2

Peretrukhin-Svitich controversy file, 1927-1934 and undated. Includes related materials

Correspondence, 1926-1949. See also Subject file/Orthodox Eastern Church--Poland--History--20th century/All-Polish council

3

Dionisii (Valedinskii), Metropolitan, 1930-1931

4

Iakubovich, Viacheslav, Reverend, 1926-1931 and undated

5

Ioann (Pommer), Archbishop, 1930

6

Mikhailovskii, Vladimir, 1926

7

Savva (Sovetov), Archbishop, 1949

8

Shavel’skii, Georgii, Reverend, 1930

9

Za svobodu, 1926-1931

Speeches and writings, 1926-1961 and undated. See also Subject file/Orthodox Eastern Church--Poland--History--20th century/All-Polish council

General

10

Letter to the editor, 1961

11

Notes, undated

Newspaper articles

12

General, 1953-1959 and undated

Za svobodu

13

1926

14

1927

15

1928

16

1929-1930

17

“Edinaia, sviataia, sobornaia i apostol’skaia tserkov’,” undated. Typescript

18

“Nasushchnieishaia nuzhda,” undated. Typescript

19

“Vybornoe nachalo v zhizni pravoslavnoi tserkvi,” undated. Typescript

20

“Znachenie sobornosti v pravoslavnoi tserkvi (v zashchitu sobornosti v zhizni tserkvi),” undated. Typescript

21

“Cherez Golgofu k voskreseniiu,” Rossiia, No. 5090, 1953. Printed copy

22

“Tserkov’ s pervykh vekov khristiianstva i ee sobornoe ustroenie,” 1953. Typescript, with introductory remarks and notes

Subject file, 1921-1965 and undated

23

Eastern Catholic Church, clippings, research notes

2.

Orthodox Eastern Church--Poland--History--20th Century

1

General, clippings

2

All-Polish council. Includes newspaper articles by Svitich and other authors, clippings, related correspondence, notes, and resolutions

3

Persecutions of Orthodox Christians, 1938-1940. Notebook entitled “Gonenie na Pravoslavie v Pol’shie” with pasted clippings

Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America

4

Bylaws, The Russian Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Sea Cliff, N.Y., undated

Correspondence

5

Arsenii (Chakhovtsev), Archbishop, 1935-1937. Includes correspondence with Metropolitan Feofil (Pashkovskii), and Bishop Leontii (Turkevich)

6

Irinei (Bekish), Archbishop, 1965

7

Minutes, Ninth All-American council, 1955

Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov’ zagranitsei

General

8

Parish bylaws, 1946-1955. Printed copies

9

Skvortsov, Vasilii Mikhailovich. Reports to ecclesiastical councils, 1921-1931

10

“Krizis upravleniia Russkoi zarubezhnoi tserkvi,” undated

11

Tserkovnye zakony kasaiushchiesia Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi zagranitsei, 1947. Printed copy

12

Poland--History. Clippings, 1957

13

Teodorovich, Terentii, Reverend, 1950-1953 and undated. Clippings and three prints

14-15

Printed matter, 1930-1933 and undated. Catalog and clippings