Клуб «Друзья Музея-архива русской культуры в Сан-Франциско» был основан осенью 2008 года, в год 60-летия со дня основания самого Музея.
Целью клуба «Друзья Музея» было оживление взаимосвязи между русской колонией в Сан-Франциско и Музеем-архивом, а также финансовая поддержка Музея. Инициатива создания клуба исходила от вице-президента Музея-архива Юрия Андреевича Тарала. В роли организатора клуба была предложена кандидатура Маргариты Кветославовны Меняйленко, кандидата исторических наук.
Молодое поколение Русского Зарубежья получило роскошь узнать о прошлом своих отцов, матерей, дедушек и бабушек из уст представителей Русского Зарубежья, а также познакомиться с деятельностью Центрального общественного архива русской эмиграции в Сан-Франциско из уст его сотрудников.
Начиная с 11-й встречи проводились также видеозаписи. С 2022 года Музей-архив начал загружать архив видеозаписей на YouTube канале нашего Музея:YouTube_MRCSF
50th Meeting. September 23rd, 2023
Maria Sakovich, historian, independent scholar, granddaughter of the Rector of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Archpriest Vladimir Sakovich (1918-1931): “One Picture — Several Stories: The Petrograd Children’s Colony in Russia and America” (in English).
Video recording (YouTube)
49th Meeting. July 29th, 2023
Sofya Anisimova, PhD (The University of St. Andrews, Scotland): “Russia’s Military Strategy and the Entente in the First World War, 1914 – February 1917” (in English).
Video recording (YouTube)
48th Meeting. July 1-2, 2023
The 100th anniversary of the arrival of the US Army Transport Merritt at Angel Island on July 1, 1923, carrying 526 Russian refugees who had fled in October of 1922 from Vladivostok with the Siberian Flotilla under the command of Rear Admiral G. K. Stark as the Bolsheviks closed in.
- Yves Franquien, Opening remarks
- Maria Sakovich, “The USAT Merritt Refugee Emigrants in the Context of the Broader Post-Revolution Russian Diaspora: A Few Remarks”
- Lada Tremsina, “From Vladivostok to San Francisco: the Journey of the Extended Kolosoff Family”.
Video recording (YouTube)
47th Meeting. June 3rd, 2023
– Lt. Col. Andre Dragomiretzky: “Historical Road to Maidan Square” (in English).
Video recording (YouTube)
46th Meeting. April 29, 2023
– Olga Matich: presentation devoted to her great uncle Vasily Shulgin (1878-1976) and titled “Противоречия или парадоксальное мышление В.В. Шульгинa.” – Part 2.
Video recording (YouTube)
45th Meeting. March 25, 2023
– Ivan Podvalov and Michael Protzenko – the son of the Cossack trick rider Sergei Ivanovich Protzenko (1894-1984).
Video recording (YouTube)
44th Meeting. February 11, 2023
– Olga Matich: presentation devoted to her great uncle Vasily Shulgin (1878-1976) and titled “Противоречия или парадоксальное мышление В.В. Шульгинa.” – Part 1.
43rd Meeting. November 5, 2022
– Natalia Solodiagina’s :mom’s memoirs “Югославский аккорд. Воспоминания дочери Белых эмигрантов. 1941-1950”. .
Video recording (YouTube)
42nd Meeting. September 17, 2022
– Yves Franquien: “Недавно поступившие в Музей портреты: изображённый на них человек и выполнивший их портретист”.
– Michael Tolstoy: “Поиски наследия художника Михаила Вербова”.
Video recording (YouTube)
41th Meeting. August 20, 2022
– Ryan Gourley (Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley): “Musical Treasures of Manchuria’s Russian Gramophone Industry.”
40th Meeting. June 25, 2022
– George Vladimirovich Grigoriev and George Albertovitch Zupko: History of Russian Aviation Part 3. “Flights to faraway lands. The Legacy of Czarist Aviators” – Russian aviation’s influence in the Western Europe and United States.
Video recording (YouTube)
39th Meeting. March 22, 2022
– George Vladimirovich Grigoriev and George Albertovitch Zupko: History of Russian Aviation Part 2. “Cossacks from the Clouds” – Russian aviators in WW1.
Video recording (YouTube)
38th Meeting. January 29, 2022
– Ryan Gourley (Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley): “An Overview of Musical Recordings at the Museum of Russian Culture San Francisco”.
– Michael Tolstoy: “«Свадебка» композитора И.Ф. Стравинского и В.Ф. Кибальчич”.
Special Event. October 6, 2021
– Galina Epifanova: book presentation “The Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in Memoirs of Witnesses and Contemporaries”
Video recording (YouTube)
37th Meeting. September 25, 2021
– George Vladimirovich Grigoriev and George Albertovitch Zupko: History of Russian Aviation Part 1. “Canvas Wings and Iron Personalities” – an overview of aviation in Europe and in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, with special emphasis on the accomplishments and career of Igor Sikorsky.
Video recording (YouTube)
36th Meeting. Feb 8, 2020
– Alexander Kugushev: “My Three Grandfathers. About the three historical options open to Russia in 1900”.
– Laura Filimonova: “The assistance to Russian military invalids of the First World War in exile”. It is based on 13 boxes of these materials, collected in our archive during 70 years.
Video recording (YouTube)
35th Meeting. Oct 26, 2019
– Alla Zaharoff, a longtime friend of Mr Cherkas, will talk about the artist life: “From Moscow to Santa Monica”.
– Maria Zaharoff will cover Mr Cherkas’ artistic achievements: “From Impressionism to Cubism. A lifetime journey”.
Video recording (YouTube)
34th Meeting. May 4, 2019
– Maria Sakovich: “Russian Choral Music in San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s: Cultural Riches and Cultural Sharing”.
– Igor Sazevich (born in San Francisco in 1929): “A Memoir of an Architect and Painter in Old San Francisco”.
Video recording (YouTube)
33rd Meeting. Feb 9, 2019
– George Schiller: “Судьба семьи Шиллеров за 30 мин (первый московский дом с лифтом, выброшенные рояли, из драгунов в священники, пятеро выживших детей из двенадцати)”
– Lada Tremsina: “Ижевцы и Воткинцы в Сан-Франциско (к 100-летию Ижевско-Воткинского восстания)”.
32nd Meeting. Nov 10, 2018
– William Grant: “Journey of the General Manager of Verkh-Isetsk Mining District Yakov Pogrebnyak and his historical tablecloth from Yekaterinburg after 1917 revolution”
– Laura Filimonova and Larisa Andreeva: the Museum of the family of the Emperor Nicholas II in Tobolsk, other museums in Tobolsk and Tyumen.
Video recording (YouTube)
31st Meeting. Jun 18, 2018 (in commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the arrival of USAT).
- Margarita Meniailenko: Words of Welcome
- Yves Franquen: Siberian Flotilla and Admiral Yuri Stark
- Eugenia Bailey: Voyage of the USAT Merritt
- Masha Sakovich: Admission to Angel Island and Finding Help in San Francisco
- Olga Kachina: Acclimation of refugees…
Video recording (YouTube)
30th Meeting. May 12, 2018 (Museum’s 70 Years Jubilee)
– Н. Корецкий: Вступительное слово.
– И. Франкьен:Православный миссионер протоиерей Макарий Баранов (Прибыловы острова) – один из первых дарителей редких книг Музею-архиву в Сан-Франциско.
– Elena Danielson: George Tarala and grant for the Museum and Hoover institution project 1999-2001.
– А. Шмелев: Заметки о прошлом Музея Русской культуры.
– М. Меняйленко: Переоборудование Выставочного зала – подарок Музею к 70-летнему юбилею.
29th Meeting. Mar 24, 2018
– Mikhail Tolstoy: “Возвращение протопресвитера А.Н. Киселева”.
– Richard Robbins: recently published book “Overtaken by the Night”, based on extensive archival research on V.F. Dzhunkovsky, who in 1913 became the empire’s security chief.
Video recording (YouTube)
28th Meeting. Nov 18, 2017
– Mara Klestoff: Воспоминания дедушки – генерал-майора И.Ф. Шильникова. Фотография с Государем Николаем II на перроне Бобруйского вокзала.
– Margarita Meniailenko: Я.И. Лисицын, Cветлейший князь А.А. Ливен, И.А. Ильин, П.Е. Ковалевский: «Музею в Сан-Франциско быть!».
Video recording (YouTube)
27th Meeting. Oct 7, 2017
– Dr Wim Coudenys, Professor of Russian and European (Cultural) History at the University of Leuven (Belgium): Russian post revolutionary emigration in Belgium.
– Alla Sokolov: The journey of the Anatolii Sokolov, starting from prerevolutionary times.
Video recording (YouTube)
26th Meeting. May 6, 2017 (Commemoration of 100 years of Nicolas II abdication)
– L. Andreeva: История ковра из Тобольска.
– G. Epifanova: Отречение Николая II в воспоминаниях современников
– A. Shmelev: 1917-й год в коллекциях архива Гуверовского института
– Elena Danielson: Scenes of the Revolution memorialized by the artist Ivan A. Vladimirov. (Сцены революции, запечатлённые художником Иваном А. Владимировым)
25th Meeting. Nov 21, 2016
– Olgard Dabbert, M.D.: “Riding the Century” – the memoir devoted to his mom Alexandra Dubbert.
– Natasha Ermakova: The Diocesan archive at Tikhon Zadonsky church, San Francisco.
Video recording (YouTube)
24th Meeting. Oct 8, 2016
- Andrei Svensson: “Memoir of a White Russian” (Boris Kuminov).
- Tatiana Makht: historical painting- the cycle “Tsarist Russia”.
- Galina Epifanova: The Great Tea Road.
Video recording (YouTube)
23rd Meeting. Mar 26, 2016
- Yves Franquien: ancient engraved maps of Russia executed by European master cartographers.
- Valeria Kustova: portrait of an unknown subject, which the Museum received several years ago.
- Lena Samsonova: authentic Russian musical culture.
- Lena Samsonova and Masha Medvedyeva: an excerpt from an ancient polyphonic folk song.
Video recording (YouTube)
22nd Meeting. Dec 5, 2015
Exactly 70 years ago the Russian Historical Archive Abroad had been transferred from Prague to the USSR.
- Lukáš Babka (director of the Slavic library) presented a talk on the history and current activities of the Slavic library.
Video recording (YouTube)
21st Meeting. Oct 31, 2015
- I. Podvalov: материалы Ивана Алексеевича Колюбакина.
- Larissa Andreeva; предметы материальной культуры Российской Империи.
- N. Hidchhenko gift – напрестольное Евангелие.
- A. Zabegalin: gift – афиша, вероятно, 1960х-1970х годов.
Video recording (YouTube)
20th Meeting. Apr 25, 2015
The 20th (Jubilee) meeting of the Friends of the Museum and Archive was devoted entirely to a lecture by a guest from Prague.
- Anastasia V. Koprshivova: “Russian Émigrés in Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period”.
Video recording (YouTube)
19th Meeting. Feb 7, 2015
- Lada Tremsina: update on the memoirs of Colonel Avenir G Efimov (1888-1972) publication.
- Valeria Kustova: collection of icons produced by Alexandra Dabbert.
- Yves Franquien: a paper on the history of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco (1853-1924).
- Michael Tolstoy: four previously unpublished autographs of Alexander Vertinsky.
Video recording (YouTube)
18th Meeting. Oct 18, 2014
- Y. Franquien: gift – watercolors and sketches, by the Anatolio Sokoloff.
- E. I Yakoubovsky-Lerke (née Brajnik): the Russian High School in Paris.
- L. Andreeva: the restoration work on portraits of Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna.
Video recording (YouTube)
17th Meeting. Aug 23, 2014
- F. Zeibot’s: the NTS collection.
- G.V. Kumansky: gift – the video recording of the Russian “Freedom Rally” (1980, San Francisco).
- E. Ivannkova: the activities of I. Ogurtsov.
Video recording (YouTube)
16th Meeting. Mar 29, 2014
- Anna Ivanovskaya: collection of the censor Count P I Kapnist.
- Mikhail Tolstoy: a choir director and conductor V F Kibalchich.
- A .A. Kondrashov: gift – a unique photograph of the family of General N.P. Zlobin.
Video recording (YouTube)
15th Meeting. Dec14, 2013
- V. Kustova: archive of M.A. Shouliakovsky.
- Y. Franquien: three books prepared with his participation.
- E. Ivannikova: the banner of the Simbirsk Corps of Cadets – from Simbirsk to San Francisco.
- A. Zabegalin: gift – a collection of O.A. Skopichenko’s poetry.
Video recording (YouTube)
14th Meeting. Apr 6, 2013
- N. Hidchenko: gift from A.D. Kochnev.
- Y. Franquien: the Kochnev Family Collection (scans made by N. Dragomiretzky).
- Y. Franquien: collection of Russian periodicals published in China from 1904 to 1948.
- T. Savina: collection of poetry manuscripts.
– Video: filmed in 1949 by B. Klingenberg – the life of Russian refugees on Tubabao Island.
Video recording (YouTube)
13th Meeting. Sep 15, 2012
- Y. Franquien: archive of A.S. Loukashkin (1901-1988).
- Larissa Andreeva: a replica of Plaque No 14 of Possessions of the Russian-American Company.
- E. Elsner: gift – a life buoy with the inscription “Officers’ Wardroom San Francisco”.
- I. Dragomiretzkaya: some recently received books.
Video recording (YouTube)
12th Meeting. May 19, 2012
- Y. Franquien: фотоколлекция «Западный фронт Императорской Российской армии во время I Мировой войны».
- Helene Kolosovich: коллекция писем Великой княжны Марии Александровны.
Video recording (YouTube)
11th Meeting. Mar 10, 2012
- Elena Danielson: the ethics of an archivist.
- L. Tremsina: collection “Russian Emigration in the Far East”.
- N. Ananeva: activities of the Russian Operetta in San Francisco.
- N. Hidchenko: gift from A.D. Kochnev (Alex D Kennedy).
- N. Hidchenko:gift – editions of Shakespeare (1902) and Byron (1904), issued in St Petersburg).
Video recording (YouTube)
10th Meeting. Oct29, 2011
- N. A. Koretsky: the database of Russian graves.
- K. Stakhovskaya: music collection dedicated to the work of Dmitry Agrenev.
- E. Danielson: respect for archives existing in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- M. Meniailenko’s: interview with Baron E.A. Pfalz-Fein (Epanchin family).
- N. & A. Hidchenko: gift – rare publications that traveled Shanghai – Tubabao – Buenos Aires – San Francisco.
- A. Sheremetova: gift – a number of valuable archival materials.
Video recording (YouTube): baron E.A. Pfalz-Fein interview
9th Meeting. Jun 11, 2011
- M. Meniailenko: trip to the East Coast.
- N. A. Koretsky: E E Ukhtomsky’s “Journey to the East of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsesarevich, 1890-1891”.
- Y. Franquien: the Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago and the Polish Museum of America.
- Y. Franquien: photos of officers of the Siberian Flotilla auxiliary cruiser “Orel”; unique albums ( ward-room).
- M. Meniailenko’s: a manuscript excerpt of Alexei Remizov (collection of A.S. Loukashkin).
- G.B. Pishenin: gift – two perfectly preserved First World War posters.
8th Meeting. Apr15, 2011
- L. Tremsina: archival material collected by G. Kumansky.
- M. Meniailenko: collection of articles “Depositories of Russia Abroad” (San Francisco, 1954).
- N. Hidchenko: gift – rare Russian pre-war editions from Shanghai and Harbin.
7th Meeting. Jan 29, 2011
- N. Bogdan: the long journey from “White Lake” to Beijing (Ukhtomsky-Nazarievs).
- L. Tremsina: the memoirs of General Staff Major General P.P. Petrov.
- S. P. Petrov: own view on his father’s career.
- Y. Franquien: large-sized pictures from the eve of the Russo-Japanese War.
6th Meeting. Oct 8, 2010
- Maria Sakovich: Russian entrepreneurship in San Francisco in the 1920s-1930s.
- S. Marechek: site-specific proxy for updating the website www.mrcsf.org.
- E. Filimonov: Internet blog for English-speaking audiences dedicated to East European history and culture.
- Y. Franquien: ornithologist B.P. Yakovlev (1881-1947).
- Z. Gradova: artist P. Tchelitchew’s collection.
5th Meeting. Jun 5, 2010 – photos in RL pdf only
- I. Dragomiretzky: valuable acquisitions to be transferred to the Museum archive.
- Y. Franquien: additions to the P.F. Tchelitchew’s collection.
- Z. Gradova: the creative works of A. Gefter.
- Y. Franquien: personalities next to Admiral G.K. Stark on a group photograph.
4th Meeting. Feb 27, 2010
- N. A. Koretsky: scanning status, thanks to Irina and Nicholas Dragomiretzky.
- M. Menialenko: architectural encyclopedia by G.V. Baranovsky (from V.A. Planson).
– Y. Franquien: a group photograph (mission sent to China by Ataman A I Dutov) and a document personally signed by Admiral A.V. Kolchak.
– Y. Franquien: gift – an album of rare postcards devoted to Vladivostok.
- G. V. Kumansky: gift – an original copy of the 1904 Imperial Manifesto of Emperor Nicholas. II
3rd Meeting. Dec12, 2009
- N. Koretsky: the start of scanning archival materials.
- A. Gansa: catalogs of Russian postcards.
- L. Tremsina: collection of the Association of Izhevsk and Votkinsk Veterans.
- Y. Franquien: a group photograph of barristers discovered in the collection of A .Ya. Slobodchikov.
2nd Meeting. Nov14, 2009
– Y. Franquien: lawyer A.Ya. Slobodchikov.
– Z. Gradova: neo-romantic artist P Tchelitchew.
– M. Meniailenko: publications of DP (end of the 1940s).
1st Meeting. Jul18, 2009
- N. Koretsky, M. Meniailenko, Y. Franquien: the system of storage, the principles of systematizing and inventorying stored materials, and the Museum’s projects and problems.
- N. Sabelnik: gift – a unique album cover “2d Army Headquarters 1915-1916”
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