Box 1 Materials on the life and career of Fedor Chizhov (1811-77)

Box 1.1

 

 

Works by Fedor Chizhov

 

 

Chizhov, Fedor, 1811-1877. Dnevniki i raznye zapisi [title supplied by the Russian State Library]. Microfilm (6 reels) :

 

RGB catalog number*

Date of the item

Number of pages

File 1

1.1                      1825-6                          24

1.2                      1826                             32

1.3                      1828-9, 1831-6           209

1.4                      1836-42                      156

1.5                      1842                            230

Pages in File 1: 651

 

File 2

2.1                      1842-4                         140

2.2                      1845                            220

2.3                      1845                              32

2.4                      1847- 8                         28

2.5                      1848                             15

2.6                      1848-50                        52

2.7                      1850-5                          50

2.8                      1855-6                          24

2.9                      1857-62                        26

2.10                    1863-71                        48

2.11                    1871-3                          26     

2.12                    1873-4                          42

Pages in File 2: 703

 

File 3

3.1                      1874                              62

3.2                      1874                              56

3.3                      1875                            149

3.4                      1876                            190

3.5                      1877                            165

Pages in File 3: 622

Pages in Files 1-3: 1,976; total recto and verso pages: 3,952

 * the catalog number of each notebook held in the Chizhov collection (fond 332) in the Manuscript Division (Otdel rukopisei) at the Russian State Library (RGB) in Moscow, formerly the Lenin State Library (GBL)


Microfilm and photocopies of miscellaneous documents on reel three (1848-73): eight short letters from K. T. Soldatenkov to Chizhov, of which two are dated (Jan. 1864 and Jan. 1868)

Diary excerpts in Russian, 1847 and 1874-5; diary excerpts in English, 1862, 1864, 1873-7; notes on the topics mentioned in diary entries, 1850-73; transcription of excerpts from diary, Jan. 1, 1874-Dec. 31, 1875.  Manuscript.

Ephemera

Note cards recording individuals mentioned in Chizhov’s diary. Plastic folder.

 

 

Box 1.2

 

 

Chizhov, Fedor, 1811-1877.  Selected editorials in Vestnik promyshlennosti, Jan. 1860, Feb. 1860, June 1860, Aug. 1860, Nov. 1860, (photocopies); speeches regarding the extension of the Moscow-Iaroslavl Railroad by Baron A. I. Del’vig, D. P. Shipov, and I. F. Mamontov, in the journal, Mar. 1860.  Photocopy.

Chizhov, Fedor, 1811-1877.  Selected editorials and other articles in the newspaper Moskva, 1867.  Photocopy.          

Chizhov, Fedor, 1811-1877.  Est’ li u nas svobodnye kapitaly dlia postroiki zheleznykh dorog.  SPb, 1866.  Reprinted from Russkii invalid, 1865, nos. 279-80.  Address to the Statistical Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Dec. 10, 1865.  Photocopy.           

Chizhov, Fedor, 1811-1877. Pis’ma o shelkovodstve.  M: A. I. Mamontov, 1870.  Photocopy of table of contents, iii-iv, and excerpts.            

Chizhov, Fedor, 1811-1877.  Last will and testament (1877), published in Russkii arkhiv 31 (1893), no. 3, part 1, 319-21.  Photocopy.        

Chizhov, Fedor, 1811-1877. Various articles on his travels in the South Slavic lands, published in Moskvitianin (1843), Russkaia beseda (1857) Photocopy.

Vospominaniia F. V. Chizhova.”  Istoricheskii vestnik, Feb. 1883, no. 1.  Photocopy. (This archival document, signed May 23, 1847, consists of Chizhov’s answers to questions posed during his interrogation by the Third Section.  It was edited for publication by V. I. Lamanskii.)

Draft translation by Thomas C. Owen  of  F.V. Chizhov’s “Vospominaniia.”  Manuscript.

Translations by Thomas C. Owen of selected Chizhov’s diary entries of Aug. 17-18, 1862 (on his inner life); May 7, 1863 (on his career); May 8, 1864 (letter to Ivan S. Aksakov on the letter of the Jesuit priest Martynov); May 18, 1864 (on Slavophiles in Moscow); gist of entries from Nov. 17, 1873 to death on Nov. 14, 1877.  Manuscript.

 

Literature on Fedor Chizhov

Babst, Ivan K.  “Sovremennye nuzhdy nashego narodnogo khoziaistva.”  Vestnik promyshlennosti, Mar. 1860, section 3, 203-48.  Photocopy.

Cherokov, Arkadii.  Fedor Vasil’evich Chizhov i ego sviazi s N. V. Gogolem: biograficheskii ocherk po povodu 25-i godovshchiny smerti ego, s portretom pokoinogo.  M: I. N. Kushnerev, 1902.  Microfilm. Also a photocopy of pages 28-50.  

Liberman, A.  A.   Sbornik v pamiat’ stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia Fedora Vasil’evicha Chizhova.  Kostroma, 1911.  Includes Liberman’s biographical sketch, pp. 5-58. Microfilm.

Owen, Thomas C.  “Socialism, Capitalism, and the Russian Idea: An Implicit Dialogue between Aleksandr Herzen and Fedor Chizhov.”  Unpublished paper presented at the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Nov. 18, 1999, on the panel on “Pecherin, Gagarin, and Chizhov: Varieties of Romantic Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russia.”  Typed manuscript.

Promyshlennye uchilishcha F. V. Chizhova v Kostromskoi gubernii.  Moscow: I. N. Kushnerev, 1900.  Includes “Kratkii ocherk zhizni F. V. Chizhova”. Photocopy.  

Shvabe, I. K.  “Arkhiv F. V. Chizhova.”  Gosudarstvennaia biblioteka SSSR im. V. I. Lenina, Zapiski otdela rukopisei 15 (1953): 43-77. Photocopy.

Simonova, Inna A.  “Osnovnye daty zhizni i deiatel’nosti F. V. Chizova.”  Unpublished chronology of the life and career of Chizhov, 1811-77.  4 pp.  Typed manuscript. 

Simonova, Inna A.  “Sochineniia F. V. Chizhova: Bibliografiia.”  Unpublished list of 43 publications of Chizhov, in Russian alphabetical order.  Fax copy, imperfect.

Tsimbaev, N. I.  “Pis’mo F. V. Chizhova Iu. F. Samarinu: predislovie i publikatsiia.”  Voprosy filosovii, 1992, no. 4: 132-40.  Photocopy. 

Vestnik promyshlennosti
Nos. 1-4 (July, Aug., Sep., Oct., Nov. 1858) Microfilm (1 reel)
Nos. 5-6 (Nov. and Dec. 1858) Microfilm (1 reel)
Vol. 12, no. 5 (May 1861) Original

Ephemera

Note cards on Chizhov’s life and career. 2 boxes.

Soviet postage stamps of locomotives used in the Russian Empire and the USSR from 1833 to 1979.