| Title |
The Diaries of Fedor Minorsky (alias Theodor Harris) |
| Reference |
GBR/0014/HARS |
| Creator |
Minorsky, Theodore Fedor, 1916-1950, soldier, pseudonym Theodor Harris |
| Covering Dates |
1940–1950 |
| Extent and Medium |
11 files |
| Repository |
Churchill Archives Centre |
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| Content and context |
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Fedor Vladimirovich Minorsky was born 19 February 1916, in Petrograd. He was the son of Vladimir Fed'orovich Minorsky (1877-1966) and Tatiana Shebunina (died 1987). During World War II he was in the Foreign Legion. He travelled to a Legion Camp at Sidi-Bel-Abbes and when he went to stay with a friend in Casablanca he took the opportunity to escape from the Legion. He died in Marseilles, after a short illness, 15 June 1950.
These files mostly consist of drafts, in French and in English, of Minorsky's account of his escape in 1942.
These papers were deposited at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, by Mrs Minorsky in August 1971.
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Access and Use
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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.
Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Diaries of Fedor Minorsky (alias Theodor Harris), HARS
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| Further information |
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A copy of this finding aid is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the National Register of Archives, London and on the Janus website, http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/.
This collection (fonds) level description was prepared by Louise King of Churchill Archives Centre in June 2005 using information from the original box list and the papers themselves.
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| Index Terms |
| Gibraltar |
| Morocco |
| Second World War (1939-1945) |
| Minorsky, Theodore Fedor (1916-1950) soldier, pseudonym Theodor Harris |
| Churchill/HARS contains: |
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Account of Return from France to North Africa, Imprisonment in Morocco and Escape via Gibraltar. Typescript account by Theodor Harris (Fedor Minorsky) of his return from France to North Africa, imprisonment in Morocco and escape via Gibraltar, in French, dated 8 October 1942.
approx. 200 folios. |
1940–1942 |
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2
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Account of Return from France to North Africa, Imprisonment in Morocco and Escape via Gibraltar. English translation of Harris/Minorsky's account of his return from France to North Africa, imprisonment in Morocco and escape via Gibraltar.
355 folios. |
1940–1942 |
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Account of Return from France to North Africa, Imprisonment in Morocco and Escape via Gibraltar. Manuscript draft in French of Minorsky's account of his return from France to North Africa, imprisonment in Morocco and escape via Gibraltar.
128 folios. |
1940–1942 |
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4
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Account of Return from France to North Africa, Imprisonment in Morocco and Escape via Gibraltar. Typescript draft in French of Minorsky's account of his return from France to North Africa, imprisonment in Morocco and escape via Gibraltar.
159 folios. |
1940–1942 |
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5
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Account of Return from France to North Africa, Imprisonment in Morocco and Escape via Gibraltar. Typescript draft in English of part of Minorsky's account. It covers his time in the Prison Civile in Casablanca in 1941. This is a transcript of the account in the notebook (ref. HARS 6).
17 folios. |
1941 |
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6
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Diary and Drawings of Prison Life. This file contains a notebook that has "Theodor Harris no.6965, Prison Civile de Casablanca" written inside the cover. Loose inside the notebook are two address cards and a negative showing a man in flying clothes.
4 items. |
1941 |
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7
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Diary and Literary Extracts. This file contains a notebook which includes some diary entries and literary extracts.
1 item. |
12 May 1941–9 Oct 1942 |
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8
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"Invasion Diary". This partial notebook was written when Minorsky was living in London. It is in French.
1 item. |
6 Jun 1944–16 Dec 1944 |
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9
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French Verse. Manuscript and Transcript verse mostly in French (by Fedor Minorsky?).
51 folios. |
12 Apr 1937–22 Jun 1948 |
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10
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Fedor Minorsky in Marseilles. This file consists of one photograph of a man which is inscribed on back "b. in Petrograd 19 February 1916 -in Marseilles 15 June 1950".
1 item. |
c. 1950 |
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11
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"La Derujere Heure". This is a Victory edition of a Brussels Newspaper.
1 item. |
9 May 1943 |
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