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The Hoover Institution's Russian collections are among its most extensive and important. While the Russian Empire was swept away in 1917, the collections relating to it span the period from the mid-19th century through the 20th and into the 21st centuries, including the Russian Civil War and the activities of émigrés and exiles forced abroad as a result of Bolshevik rule. Among the subjects best covered are the First World War, 1917 revolution, Russian Civil War (mainly the anti-Bolshevik side) and emigration. The records of various Russian embassies, legations and missions abroad are significant for diplomatic history, as are the papers of Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov and diplomats Mikhail Girs, V.A. Maklakov and Nikolai Bazili. The papers of Grand Duchess Kseniia Aleksandrovna and Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna open up the world of the Romanov dynasty. Military history is also well represented in the papers of General N.N. Golovin, V.E. Flug, Dmitrii Shcherbachev and others. The Hoover Library is an excellent resource for Imperial government documents and both Imperial and émigré society
Russian Provisional Government embassy, 1916–24
Russian Imperial and Provisional Government embassy, 1897–1947
Russian Imperial and Provisional Government diplomatic mission, 1874–1925
Russian Imperial and Provisional Government diplomatic mission, 1781–1924
Russian legation, 1902–8
Russian legation, 1857–1913
Russian legation, 1828–1904
Russian consulate, 1860–1914
Russian consulate, 1830–1914
Russian minister of foreign affairs, 1910–16
White Russian diplomat
Russian politician and diplomat; ambassador of the Provisional Government to France, 1917–24
Russian imperial diplomat
Daughter of Tsar Alexander III and sister of Nicholas II
Consort of Alexander III
General, Russian imperial army
General, Russian imperial army
General, Russian imperial army
Collections copied from the seminary's archives
Collections copied from the museum's archives
Anatol Shmelev is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at Hoover’s Library & Archives, and the project archivist for its Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Collection. Shmelev’s expertise is in twentieth-c...
Photographs from the Paris Office of the Russian Imperial Secret Police
"A Room Alive with Memories" by Linda Bernard and Dennis Bark
Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the exhibition The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution examines the political, social, and cultural upheavals that transformed Russia in the final decades of the Romanov dynasty and the first years of Soviet Communism.
A new exhibition, Double Exposure: Russia’s Secret Police under the Last Tsars, is based on one of the most extraordinary collections held in the Hoover Library & Archives: the records of the Paris headquarters of the Russian Imperial secret police, known as the Okhrana. The Okhrana collection, consisting of once-secret files and photographs of many of the most wanted Russian revolutionaries of the early twentieth century...
Historians and archivists are accustomed to saving historical records—and the memories they document—from oblivion. Seldom, however, do they find themselves in the position of saving actual historical personalities from an almost certain death. One such historian—who was later the state archivist of Delaware—found himself in precisely such a position while serving as head of the American Red Cross mission in South Russia in 1920.
One hundred years ago the office in charge of editing Russia's state papers created a unique album, depicting as it does many of the guests at a costume ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of St. Petersburg. Three hundred and ninety people attended, including sixty guardsmen. It was to be the last imperial ball in Russian history.
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