New archival documents of Russian and Ukrainian emigration and Czech re-emigration in the State Regional Archive in Prague
Abstract
The State Regional Archive in Prague (SOA) is located in the same building as the National Archive in Chodov. It has its depots, including a photography and map department and its research room.
In addition to the Prague headquarters, it has 11 branches. During the relocation of the Prague headquarters to Chodov in 2002, a fund appeared, which was given the provisional name Russian Emigrant.
After a subsequent inspection, the fund was renamed the Ukrainian Emigrant Fund. The origin of this fund is unknown.
The collection is managed as unprocessed and contains more than 7 and a half meters of archival material. We are currently working with my colleague Tobiáš Jirsík to make it available.
It is remarkable that, as we managed to find out, the fund is not a fund of either a Russian or a Ukrainian emigrant but contains four personal funds of quite important personalities, not directly connected, but belonging to one interwar Czechoslovakia and involved in the Czech-Russian-Ukrainian emigration. context. The most comprehensive is the personal fund of the Czech re-emigrant from St.
Petersburg, diplomat Alexander Šrut and his family. The second most comprehensive is the personal fund of the Russian emigrant historian Vsevolod Sachanev.
The third belongs to Viktor Prychod'ko, a professor at the Ukrainian Economic Academy in Poděbrady. The fourth, smallest, is the fund of the Czech Doctor of Law, Judge Josef Ladislav Stěhule, a Slavophile and ideological supporter of the establishment of the Czechoslovak Orthodox Church.
During the shortcut, I will try to indicate what the value of each of these personal archives is and what contribution they can have to further research on emigration to Czechoslovakia.