English Translation

13 SQ Translation from Russian Prof. A.N. Fateev Prague, 19 March 1942. Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian History Archive. Prague XIX, Radeckystr. 29. Excellent, very venerable Vasily Viktorovich ! In my capacity as Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian History Archive at the Ministry of the Interior of the Protectorate, I have learned that in the near future a large part of the book and document stock, namely everything relating to the Russian army (including its remains in emigration), the world war and the civil war, is to be removed from the archive for the purpose of handing over to the German Army Archive or to its Prague section. This decision has caused great concern to all those who have been involved in the establishment and development of one of the few Russian institutes abroad with an undeniable national treaty. The Russian History Archive is an institution that has provided many of the most important representatives of Russian emigration in the hope of a better future with their powers and knowledge. The Russian Ceschichtsarchiv has its rapid and successful growth as well as its development into a central institute of Russian emigration, which literally attracted hangovers from all areas of the émigré-dispersion, to a significant extent thanks precisely to the scientific Nanen, the social influence and moral authority of these men. Many Russians have handed over to the archive the material you have available, which could only be carried out under the greatest efforts in the difficult circumstances of Emigran life, gladly and in many cases completely free of charge in