Metadata: The Treasury Commission of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
- Postal address:
- Gerosios Vilties g. 10, 03134 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- (8 5) 213 74 82
- Web address:
- http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lvia_naujienos.html
- Email:
- istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
- Reference number:
- f. 11
- Title:
- The Treasury Commission of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Title (official language):
- Lietuvos Didžiosiosios Kunigaikštystės iždo komisija
- Creator/accumulator:
- Treasury Commission of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Date(s):
- 1509/1797
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,844 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The archive of the Treasury Commission of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania includes a wide array of documents on financial matters, mostly from the second half of the 18th century. The Jewish-related materials include data on a variety of financial and social matters, such as the levying of state taxes and the incomes and expenses of Jewish communities.
The materials refer to Jewish communities in various localities throughout the Duchy of Lithuania: the voivodeships (provinces) of Brest, Minsk, Mstislavl, Navahrudak, Polotsk, Trakiai, Vilnius, Vitebsk and the Duchy of Samogitia. Along with such prominent communities as Vilnius, Kaunas and Hrodna, the documents also refer to numerous smaller localities. Several files include data on Karaite communities.
The files include official documents, lists of inhabitants and taxpayers (including data on their assets), and in certain cases, detailed descriptions and inventories of several localities, estates and elderships, such as Yanov and Anyksciai.
Some of the files include materials on judicial issues, such as reports and correspondence that refer to debts owed by various individuals and Jewish communities, along with other issues connected to the relationship between the Jews and members of other social groups. The judicial materials mention different Jewish individuals: leaseholders, tavern keepers, merchants and functionaries of Jewish communal institutions.
Some material is in Old East Slavic.
- Archival history:
-
In 1852, the Archive of the Treasury Commission, along with other pre-Russian archival materials, was transferred to the newly established Central Archive of Ancient Acts in Vilnius with the intention of hosting the vast documentary heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
In the 1920s the holdings of this archive were transferred to the newly established Vilnius State Archive, which became a part of the Central State Archive of the Lithuanian SSR in 1940. In 1957, together with other pre-revolutionary documentation, these materials were included in the Central State Historical Archive of the Lithuanian SSR, predecessor of the current State Historical Archive).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The collection includes the papers from the Treasury Commission of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, an institution established at the Sejm of 1764 to centralise the supervision of finances within the territory of the Grand Duchy. The commission functioned until the late 18th century, when it was replaced by Russian administrative institutions.
- Access points: locations:
- Poland
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of two inventories arranged in thematic/chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at LVIA.
- Finding aids:
- Basic information in Lithuanian and an inventory in Russian are available at the online catalogue of the Lithuanian Archives. A more detailed inventory in Polish is available at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx?_afPfm=-7dec7f9e
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2014