Hoover Institution and Holy Trinity Seminary awarded NEH grant to process and microfilm collections of Holy Trinity Seminary Archive
 |
Hoover Tower, The Stanford University Signature Building |
The Hoover Institution and Holy Trinity Seminary have received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a 1.5-year joint project to process and microfilm the most significant archival holdings of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, NY. The primary goal of the project is to make these collections available to scholars in the reading rooms of the Hoover Institution Archives and Holy Trinity Seminary by the end of 2008. The Holy Trinity Seminary will retain the original materials.
The archive of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary was founded in 1982 in Jordanville, NY, as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Russian history and culture. Over the past 25 years it has acquired significant and unique materials relating primarily to the history of the Russian post-1917 emigration, pre-revolutionary Russia and the Civil War period. Among the Materials included for microfilming are the papers of General Petr Krasnov, a noted Civil War Cossack leader and writer, the records of the Russian all-Military Union (Rossiiskii Obshche-Voinskii Soiuz), the records of veterans' associations of several Imperial Russian Army and anti-Bolshevik regiments. The collections contain the papers and correspondence of prominent Russian political and cultural figures: Ivan M. Andreevskii (historian and writer), Vladislav Maevskii (historian and theologian), Ivan Shmelev (writer), Nikolai Talberg (historian) and others.