Register of the Vera Cattell collection

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1 No online items Finding aid prepared by Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop Hoover Institution Archives 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA, (650) , C2 1

2 Title: Vera Cattell Date (inclusive): Collection Number: 2000C2 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives Language of Material: Russian Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 card file box (4.0 linear feet) Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia relating to aspects of Russian imperial and military history, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and Russian émigrés in China and elsewhere. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Collector: Cattell, Vera Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Vera Cattell Collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in Accruals Materials may have been added to the since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the in Stanford University's online catalog at Materials have been added to the if the number of boxes listed in the catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Scope and Content Note This consists primarily of papers belonging to Grigorii Konstantinovich Bologov, chairman of the Russian Emigrants' Association of Shanghai, and concerns the evacuation and resettlement of White Russian refugees from China. The bulk of the series under that name relates to the emigrants' stay at a refugee camp on Tubobao Island in the Philippines under the auspices of the United Nations International Refugee Organization. It includes material about conditions in the camp, lists of refugees, and correspondence with American and Philippine camp authorities, as well as correspondence related to efforts to obtain permission for emigration to the United States, South America, and Australia. Of special interest is an extensive correspondence of Archbishop John of Shanghai and San Francisco. Also included are the founding documents and minutes of meetings of the Russian Emigrants' Association in Shanghai and Tubobao. Of particular interest in the subject file are the correspondence and personal papers of Prince Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza, as well as printed copies of orders issued by him as Commander of the Ekaterinburg Garrison in , during the Russian Civil War. The file also contains the business papers and military medals of Leonid Vishnevetskii, his business partner. The photograph file contains a large leatherbound album celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Guards Regiment (Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi), in which the prince served and which includes informal photographs of the Russian imperial family. Furthermore, the contains the commission and passport papers of Karol de Perthees, royal cartographer to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski of Poland, to be found in the oversize file. Karol de Perthees was probably the most prominent 18th century Polish cartographer. He was born in Dresden, the capital of the Saxon-Polish monarchy, the illegitimate son of the Russian envoy in Dresden and later in Warsaw, baron Herman Kayserling. Perthees lived and worked in Warsaw from 1764 until After the third partition of Poland he moved to Wilno where he devoted his time to entomology. (He compiled 9 vols. of Insecta Polonica et Lithuanica.) Perthees' detailed maps of Poland, later reprinted in Berlin and Petersburg, were commonly used during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. He was married to Jozefa, the middle daughter of Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto, the court painter of King Stanislaw August. Subjects and Indexing Terms 2000C2 2

3 China. Russia--History, Military. Russia--History. Russia. Russians--China. Soviet Union--History--Revolution, Soviet Union. Box 1-3 Russian Refugees from China File, Announcements, appeals, clippings, correspondence, financial records, founding documents, lists, memoranda, minutes of meetings, petitions, reports, personal papers, clippings and other printed matter related to the evacuation and resettlement of Russian refugees from China. Arranged alphabetically by subject Box/Folder 1 : 1 Clippings, 1949 Box/Folder 1 : 2 Individual petitions for emigration, Box/Folder 1 : 3 Lists of evacuees, 1949 Bologov, Grigorii (G. K. Bologoff), Chairman of the Russian Emigrants' Association Correspondence Box/Folder 1 : 4, Bogen, E. (Special Delegate for Resettlement, IRO-UNEC, Tubobao, Philippines) Box/Folder 1 : 5 Includes instructions of American government agencies and International Refugee Organization, Box/Folder 1 : 6 Resettlement in Germany, 1949 Box/Folder 1 : 7 Delovaia Komissiia Pomoshchi Tubobavtsam (Viktor Korostylev), John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco See John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco/Correspondence Box/Folder 1 : 8 Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev (Committee on Resettlement of Russian Refugees) (Viktor Borzov), Box/Folder 1 : 9 Modest, Hieromonk, Box/Folder 1 : 10 Rossiia, 1949 Box/Folder 1 : 11 Tinio, Capt., 1949 Box/Folder 1 : 12 Zaitsev, Pavel ( Russkaia Zhizn'), 1949 Box/Folder 1 : 13 Memorandum to American government, 1950 Box/Folder 1 : 14 Personal papers, undated Reports Box/Folder 1 : 15 "Possible Improvements of Legal Position of the Russian Emigrants," undated Box/Folder 1 : 16 "Russian Emigrants' Association," undated Box/Folder 1 : 17 "Russian Political Emigrants in China," undated Box/Folder 1 : 18 "Ruinous Position of White Russian Emigrants in China," 1946 Box/Folder 1 : 19 "On Persons Twice Displaced" and "On Camp Conditions in Tubobao," 1949 China Realty Co., 1937 See PHOTOGRAPHS 2000C2 3

4 Box/Folder 1 : 20 Diplomatic missions in Shanghai. List of personnel, 1948 Box/Folder 1 : 21 Federation of Russian Charitable Organizations in the United States. Minutes of meeting, 1948 April See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev I.R.O. Camp, Tubobao Island, Cuiuan, Samar, Philippines See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev Box/Folder 1 : 22 Correspondence, reports and clippings related to Senator William Knowland's visit to the camp, 1949 Box/Folder 1 : 23 Draft for constitution of Arbitration Board, undated Lists of refugees Box/Folder 1 : 24 Arrested for various misdemeanors, undated Box/Folder 1 : 25 Members of R.E.A. Concert Band, undated Box/Folder 2 : 1-2 Residents in the camp, 1949 Box/Folder 2 : 3 Medical documents, 1949 Box/Folder 2 : 4 Press release, 1950 John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco Box/Folder 2 : 5 Clippings Includes newspaper interviews, 1949 Correspondence with Grigorii Bologov Box/Folder 2 : 6 Incoming, Outgoing Box/Folder 2 : Box/Folder 2 : Box/Folder 2 : 9 Sermon, Christmas, 1949 Box/Folder 2 : 10 Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev (Committee on Resettlement of Russian Refugees). Announcements and forms, 1950 See also Bologov, Grigorii/Correspondence/Komissiia Po Okazaniiu Pomoshchi Pereseleniiu Russkikh Bezhentsev Box/Folder 2 : 11 Orthodox Church in China, Chancery. Announcements, directives, and correspondence, Rossiiskaia Emigrantskaia Assotsiatsiia (Russian Emigrants' Association) See also Bologov, Grigorii/ Correspondence Box/Folder 2 : 12 Address to John (Maksimovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, 1949 Box/Folder 2 : 13 Announcements, 1950 Appeals for aid in the resettlement of refugees Includes correspondence, reports, and printed matter Box/Folder 2 : 14 Box/Folder 2 : 15 Box/Folder 2 : 16, Argentina Australia 2000C2 4

5 Box/Folder 2 : 17 Brazil Includes correspondence of V. Reyer Box/Folder 2 : 18 International Refugee Organization, Geneva, 1949 Includes 3,000 signatures of camp residents Box/Folder 2 : 19 Italy Report on refugee camp Box/Folder 3 : 1 Philippines Includes correspondence with president's office United States See also Bologov/ Correspondence/Bogen, E. Box/Folder 3 : 2 Box/Folder 3 : 3 List of refugees who applied for immigration into the U.S. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1949 Correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings related to Grigorii Bologov's business travel Box/Folder 3 : 4 Philippines, 1949 United States, 1950 Box/Folder 3 : 5 Box/Folder 3 : 6 List of contributors Box/Folder 3 : 7 Donations file, 1950 Typescript Box/Folder 3 : 8 Financial records, Box/Folder 3 : 9 Letter of gratitude to the American people, undated Box/Folder 3 : 10 Membership registration blanks and list of members, Minutes of meetings, Box/Folder 3 : 11 Box/Folder 3 : 12 Executive Committee Printed matter See OVERSIZE FILE Box/Folder 3 : 13 Replies to enquiries related to members, Box/Folder 3 : Statutes, founding documents and other material related to the organization in Shanghai, Box/Folder 3 : 18 Russian Center of San Francisco. Miscellany, 1952 Box/Folder 3 : 19 St. Tikhon's Orphanage and Seminary of St. John the Baptist Includes correspondence between the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in China and the Tubobao Camp Administration, and a list of pupils and staff, Box/Folder 3 : 20 Surinam. "Vestnik Russkikh v Surinami," C2 5

6 Box/Folder 3 : 21 United States. Congress. House of Representatives, Report No. 2187, 81st Congress, 2nd Session, 1950 June 2 Box 4 Subject File, Correspondence and personal papers of Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza and Leonid Vishnevetskii; Russian paper money and government bonds; documents related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Arranged alphabetically by subject Box/Folder 4 : 1 Bonds - Russia, Box/Folder 4 : 2 Georgievskii Komitet Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Velikago Kniazia Mikhail Aleksandrovicha. Statutes and membership list, Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza See also OVERSIZE FILE Box/Folder 4 : 3 Correspondence and clippings related to court case re inheritance, Box/Folder 4 : 4 Personal papers, including military service records, Box/Folder 4 : 5 Orders issued as Commander of Ekaterinburg Garrison, Printed sheets Telegrams Box/Folder 4 : 6 Mariia Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, Box/Folder 4 : 7 Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke, Box/Folder 4 : 8 Paper money - Russia Box/Folder 4 : 9 Petrogradskii Sovet Rabochikh i Soldatskikh Deputatov. Order No. 1, 1917 March 1 Printed copy Box/Folder 4 : 10 Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi (Imperial Guards Regiment). Orders, 1916 February See also PHOTOGRAPHS Box/Folder 4 : 11 Tsarskoe Selo. Clipping, circa 1917 Box/Folder 4 : Vishnevetskii, Leonid. Contracts and other documents related to platinum mining, See also Photographs and Memorabilia Box 5-6 Photographs, prints related to Russia before the Revolution; 1 album of 22 postcards depicting uniforms of the Imperial Guard; 1 large leatherbound album celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Guards (Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi) and containing 100 prints depicting the regiment and the imperial family Box/Folder 5 : 1 1 print depicting Saint John of Kronstadt, undated Box/Folder 5 : 2 19 prints depicting Emperor Nicholas II, undated Box/Folder 5 : 3 5 prints depicting Empress Alexandra, undated Box/Folder 5 : 4 15 prints depicting Grand Duke Alexis, undated Box/Folder 5 : 5 18 prints depicting the imperial family, undated Box/Folder 5 : 6 6 prints depicting the imperial family in informal military settings, undated Box/Folder 5 : 7 1 postcard depicting Emperor Nicholas II, commemorating his death, 1929 Box/Folder 5 : 8 1 print depicting Leonid Vishnevetskii, C2 6

7 Box/Folder 5 : 9 4 prints depicting miscellaneous Russian subjects, undated Box/Folder 5 : 10 1 print depicting the Declaration of Trust of the China Realty Co., 1937 Box/Folder 5 : 11 1 photograph copy of a Chinese document, undated Box/Folder 5 : 12 Album of 22 postcards, illustrating uniforms of the Imperial Guard, undated Box 6 Album celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the Imperial Guard (Sobstvennyi Ego Velichestva Konvoi) Includes 100 prints showing members of the regiment in dress uniform and on parade. Also includes formal and informal photographs of the imperial family, n.d. Box 7 Box 7 Box 8 Oversize File, print depicting the class of the Khristchanskii Soiuz Molodykh Liudei in Harbin, China, 1936 Printed matter Jiganoff, V. D., Russkie v Shankhae, undated Komitet po Sooruzheniiu Khrama Pamiatnika Moriakam Pogibshim v Voinu s Iaponiei v gg., Khram Pamiatnik Moriakam Pogibshim v Voinu s Iaponiei v gg Printed copy, 1915 Box 9 Personal papers of Karol de Perthees ( ), royal cartographer/geographer to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski of Poland Includes his Commission as lieutenant in the Polish Crown artillery, signed by Count Aloisius Bruhl, 1767; a passport for travel to Elblag, East Prussia, signed by King Stanislaw August; his commission as colonel, signed by King Stanislaw August, 1783; extract from a register of the nobility of Wilno Guberniia confirming titles of the Perthees family, with wax seal of Emperor Alexander I, 1812 Watercolor depicting a rider (Iskander Riza Kuli Mirza?) on horseback, undated Box 10 Memorabilia, Medals received by Leonid Vishnevetskii for service in the Polish Army, C2 7