Metadata: The Provincial Board (Gubernskoe Pravlenie) of Augustow
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. 1073
- Title:
- The Provincial Board (Gubernskoe Pravlenie) of Augustow
- Title (official language):
- Augustavo gubernijos valdyba
- Creator/accumulator:
- Provincial Board (Gubernskoe Pravlenie) of Augustow
- Date(s):
- 1816/1877
- Language:
- Russian
- Polish
- Extent:
- 1,058 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection houses the papers of the Provincial Board of Augustow. Among its materials are ukases from the Governor of the Kingdom of Poland and circulars of the Ministry of Interior, as well as documents from the Commission for Internal and Religious Affairs, the administrative service and the attorney general of the Kingdom of Poland. The collection also holds documents on the regulation of stipend allocations at the University of Warsaw (1820) and rules for artisans and manufacturers living in towns and cities (1820-33).
The collection also includes files on the establishment and operation of factories, construction and renovation of houses, bridges and roads, logging of state-owned forest, demarcation of the border between Russia and Prussia and the administrative division of the governorate of Augustow. It also holds data on economic activities throughout the governorate, which include the local government's incomes and expenses (including income from the alcohol trade), demographic statistics and data on military recruitment. Various historical and geographical data, including schematics of cities and towns in the governorate, is included in the collection.
Several files in the governorate's collection include data on the local Jewish population. This includes statistical accounts and other information on Jewish cultural and social practices: papers on the construction of private houses, synagogues and Jewish schools; on communal activities (including data on Hasidic communities); on the trade of Jewish books; on the rights and duties of traditional Jews, including the tax on wearing traditional Jewish garb; data on Jewish communal funds and taxation and financial assistance to children of Jewish soldiers; and data on Jewish apostasy.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the provincial board (gubernskoe pravlenie) of Augustow were kept in the Belarusian Central State Historical Archives in Grodno until 1957, when they were transferred to the Lithuanian Central State Archives in Vilnius. They are currently kept at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The provincial board of Augustow was established on May 3 1837 as part of the reorganisation of the former commission of Augustow voivodeship. It was the highest administrative authority of the governorate and supervised the activities of the local administrative, communal, law enforcement and judicial authorities. It was also responsible for the supervision of industrial, medical cultural and other organisations which functioned throughout the governorate. The provincial board functioned until the abolition of the governorate of Augustow in 1866.
- Access points: locations:
- Augustow
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory, which is arranged in thematic order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at LVIA.
- Finding aids:
- For online data see the Lithuanian archives' website.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Galina Baranova, Lithuanian State Historical Archives, and Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2014
