A Collection in the
Manuscripts and Rare Books Department
Collection Number Mss. 2002 K34
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and
Mary
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Anatole and Vladimir Kalichevsky Papers, Manuscripts and
Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and
Mary.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Kira K. Berry, of Williamsburg, 2001 and 2002,
their granddaughter and daughter, respectively.
ANATOLE KALICHEVSKY
Anatole Kalichevsky (March 28, 1870-April 3, 1937) was a
career military officer in the White Army of Russia where he
rose to the rank of Major General. He was also a court officer
of the last of the Czars. He was exiled from Russia in 1921
and arrived in America that year via Yokohama. When he lived
in New York he was active in Russian army veterans
associations. He had one son Vladimir. Anatole was born in
Tiflis, Georgia and died in Woodbury, New Jersey.
VLADIMIR KALICHEVSKY
Vladimir Kalichevsky (April 9, 1895-February, 1958)
[death date from Social Security Death Index and WorldCat] was
the only son of Russian Major General Anatole Kalichevsky. In
the 1930s he lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Woodbury, New
Jersey. He also lived in Beaumont, Texas.
This small collection, 1871-1955, primarily in Russian,
documents the military career of Russian Major General Anatole
Kalichevsky (1870-1937) and the travel diaries of his son,
Vladimir Kalichevsky (1895- 1958), a petroleum engineer who
spent most of his career in Texas and northern New Jersey.
Examples of items relating to Anatole are his service record,
military orders, his diplomatic passport, and his
New York Times obituary.
Vladimir, a graduate of the California Institute of
Technology, wrote several books on petroleum engineering,
three of which are in the collection. The diaries cover the
years 1902-1955 and refer to tourist attractions throughout
the United States and Europe as well as academic lectures
attended while traveling. Also included are family photographs
and Russian orders and badges awarded to Anatole. All
documents are in Russian unless otherwise indicated.
St. Petersburg. Anatole's father petitions
the government for a birth certificate for his son.
10 November 1871.
DS
Folder 2
Report card as a student in the Seventh
Class of a cadet corps in Tiflis, Georgia.
14 September 1887.
PDS
Folder 3
Appointment to teach tactics and military
history at the Nikolevsky Academy.
4 June 1899.
PDS
Folder 4
Complete service record. 1893-1902.
23 March 1905
PDS
Folder 5
Certificate for award of a medal issued to
mark the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812-1814.
27 August 1913
PDS
Folder 6
Receipt for purchase of cemetery plot in
Smolensk. Cost 361 rubles.
31 October 1914
PDS
Folder 7
Fire insurance certificate issued by the
Petrograd Insurance Company for the period April 19,
1917-April 19, 1918. Premium of 8,800 ruples.
19 April 1917
[printed form completed in
manuscript]
Folder 8
Order to serve as chief of the Evacuation
and War-Prisoners Department.
6 July 1917
TDS
Folder 9
Diplomatic passport in Russian and French.
Includes Anatole's photograph. Last transaction is
November 7, 1921.
22 September 1917
[printed form with manuscript and typed
entries]
Folder
10
Certificate in English, signed by the
Russian Charge d'Affaires in Denmark, stating that
Anatole is the Chief of the Evacuation and
War-Prisoners Department of the former Russian
General Staff. He is journeying to Omsk to join the
staff of the Supreme Regent of Russia, Admiral
[Alexander] Koltchak. On letterhead of the Legation
de Russie, Copenhague.
30 January 1919
TDS
Folder
11
Abbreviated service record. Issued in
Copenhagen.
1 February 1919
TDS
Folder
12
Order issued in Omsk assigning Anatole to
the signer's command.
27 September 1919
TDS
Folder
13
Exerpt from an order issued in Omsk by the
Commander-in-Chief of the General Staff assigning
Anatole to the General Staff.
5 October 1919
TDS
Folder
14
Copy from a copy of an order issued at
Omsk by the Chief-of-Staff and Commander-in Chief of
the Eastern Front giving Anatole the right of the
Commander of the Undivided Army.
20 October 1919
TDS
Folder
15
U.S. Immigration Form 228-"Declaration of
Alien About to Depart for the United States".
Yokohama, Japan. Approved by the American Consulate
General's Office in Yokohama, November 7, 1921.
29 July 1921
PDS
Folder
16
Certificate stating that Anatole was
wounded in May 1915 in a battle near Strei in East
Gallicia. In English.
9 July 1930
TDS
Folder
17
Another certificate confirming wounding in
May 1915.
16 August 1930
TDS
Folder
18
Anatoles's obituary,
New York Times , 4
April 1937, page 11, column 3. An undated typescript
made in 2001
4 April 1937
TD
Folder
19
Brief biographical sketch for the period
1870-1919 signed by the Russian Military Attache in
Denmark.
Undated but probably
1917
In English. CyTDS Artifacts
Folder
20
Order of St. Stanislaus Second Class and
Imperial Order of St. Anne and five other
unidentified badges awarded to Anatole.
VLADIMIR KALICHEVSKY
Folder
21
Diaries
1902-September 1931 and October
1931-December 3, 1955
In Russian through 1920, Russian and
English,1921-1931, and English post 1931.They detail
his extensive travels in America as a petroleum
engineer. He was the author of several books, ( a
list appears in folder 22) three of which,
Petroleum Refining with
Chemicals (1956),
Modern Methods of Refining
Lubricating Oils (1938) and
The Amazing Petroleum
Industry (1943) were removed and transferred
to the Rare Book collection. He died in Woodbury, New
Jersey.
Folder
22
List of books written by Vladimir from
WorldCat.
Folder
23
Old Family Photographs from an
album
Folder
24
Loose Photographs
Folder
25
Photographs from album, snap shots
1917-1921
Folder
26
Dispatch bag
Folder
27
Letters in Russian, written from Elizabeth
New Jersey, in an unknown hand (Vladimir?)and signed
"Boba"
25 October 1929 and 26 October
1929
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