Metadata: Police Board (Uprava Blagochinia) of Tartu
Collection
- Country:
- Estonia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Estonia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Eesti Ajalooarhiiv
- Postal address:
- Tartu, J. Liivi 4, 50409
- Phone number:
- (+372) 738 7500
- Web address:
- https://www.ra.ee/et/kes-me-oleme-2/
- Email:
- rahvusarhiiv@ra.ee
- Reference number:
- f. 1880
- Title:
- Police Board (Uprava Blagochinia) of Tartu
- Title (official language):
- Tartu Politseivalitsus
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police Board (Uprava Blagochinia) of Tartu
- Date(s):
- 1792/1888
- Language:
- German
- Russian
- Extent:
- 2,951 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The archive of the Police Board of Tartu includes data on investigations of criminal activities and surveillance of groups and individuals; records of inspection of local businesses and places of entertainment; records of inspection of the district's infrastructure and sanitation; population and migration statistics and registration; and data on issues of censorship and disasters such as fires and plagues.
The Jewish-related materials include paperwork concerning residence and working permits. Separate files, EAA.1880.2.74 and EAA.1880.2.608, include documents from the period between 1822 and 1879. Correspondence on residence permits and on Jews arrested after coming to Tartu illegally, including an 1828-34 correspondence with the Governorate of Livonia, can be found in other files.
In several cases, the files include data and surveillance records on Jews, especially students of the University of Tartu, suspected of illegal activities. Several files include data on Jewish soldiers and veterans, including cantonists.
- Archival history:
- After the reorganisation of the police in 1888 the papers of the police board were transferred to the newly established police board. Since 1946 the papers have been kept at the Estonian Historical Archives, Tartu.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Police Board (Uprava Blagochinia) of Tartu was established in 1805 and functioned until the reorganisation of the police in the Baltic region in 1888, when a new police board was established (see EAA.325).
- Access points: locations:
- Tartu
- Subject terms:
- Education--Students
- Jewish soldiers
- Residency issues of Jews
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of two inventories, arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Historical Arсhives of Estonia, Tartu.
- Finding aids:
-
Finding aids in Russian and Estonian are available at the Historical Arсhives of Estonia.
For further reference see: Центральный государственный исторический архив Эстонской ССР. Путеводитель, Москва, Тарту 1969, 34-35.
Basic data on the collection is available at the web portal of the National Archives of Estonia: http://ais.ra.ee, Detailotsing – Leidandmed – EAA.1880.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://ais.ra.ee
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Tatjana Schor, Historical Archives of Estonia, and Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2015
