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Stakhevich, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1893-1948

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents. photograph, subject files and printed materials of Mikhail S. Stakhevich. There are catalogued letters from Daniel D. Fedotoff-White, arranged letters to Stakhevich and later, his widow (mostly from the 1930's and 1940's), and letter drafts and carbons by Stakhevich. There are manuscripts by Stakhevich and others (including the wife of General A.A. Brusilov), some of which were written for the emigre journal "Morskoĭ zhurnal" published by Stakhevich in Prague from 1927 to 1942. The documents relate to Stakhevich's family, career and life in emigration. There is a group photograph of naval officers on the "Rossii︠a︡ with Nicholas II and Admiral Essen. The subject files concern the Imperial Navy, the Association of Former Imperial Russian Naval Officers and Stakhevich himself. The printed materials include naval communiquʹes from 1917 to 1919, clippings and a copy of "Spisok lichnago sostava sudov flota" (Petrograd, 1916).

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Russkiĭ obshche-voinskiĭ soi︠u︡z-North America

ROVS North America (ROVS-N.A.) Records consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, organizational records, subject files, and printed materials. There are also papers of the Paris-based Sovet Rossiiskogo Zarubezhnogo Voinstva (Council of the Russian Military Abroad) and other emigre military and political organizations active in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and South America. The cataloged correspondence includes letters by Evgenii Miller, Nikolai Tsurikov, Aleksandr Kutepov and other emigre figures and by Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater and other prominent American politicians. Arranged correspondence series consist of general office files, Paris-New York files, correspondence of Aleksei von Lampe and Vladimir Vitkovskii and topical correspondence files. Among the manuscripts are short articles and reminiscences by various people. There are photographs of Evgenii Miller, Nicholas II and of emigre organizational gatherings during the 1950s and 1960s. The organizational records include circulars, bulletins, orders, memoranda, reports, publications and financial records for ROVS and the Sovet Rossiiskogo Zarubezhnogo Voinstva. Subject files concern such topics as the Elisavetgrad Military Academy, the Union of the First Kuban Campaign, the Gallipoli societies, the Ingermanlandskii Regiment and the Russian Anti-Communist Center in New York. The printed materials include a book by Boris Kuznetsov and publications and circulars from other emigre organizations.

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Soi︠u︡z pazheĭ (Paris, France)

Lists, subject files, photographs, etchings and printed materials relating to the Pazheskii Korpus (imperial Corps of Pages), a school for the sons of the Russian nobility founded in 1802, and the Soiuz Pazhei (Union of Pages), the emigré alumni organization founded in 1920. The materials were collected by representatives of the Union of Pages. The collection consists chiefly of mimeographed newsletters, books, printed mementoes, such as programs, menus, tickets, and school forms, and of pictorial materials, especially photographs and etchings. The great majority of the materials pertain to the Imperial Corps of Pages and to Russia's imperial family, and include many unusual photographs portraying school life and the life of the family of Nicholas II. There are also old photographs of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Tsarskoe Selo, printed reports of the State Council for 1894-99, newsletters published by the Union of Pages and miscellaneous Russian and foreign publications, originally part of the library of the museum of the Union of Pages in Paris.