Metadata: Chancellery of the Civilian Governor 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. 1093
- Title:
- Chancellery of the Civilian Governor of Augustow
- Title (official language):
- Augustavo civilinio gubernatoriaus kanceliarija
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chancellery of the Civilian Governor of Augustow
- Date(s):
- 1864/1867
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 23 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Civil Governor was the highest administrative position of the governorate (guberniya). The collection of the governor's chancellery, which represents only a small portion of the chancellery’s original body of documents, includes records on various governmental activities, as well as data on economic, social and religious issues which were brought before Russian officials.
Among other materials, this relatively small collection contains files related to the appointment of local officials and investigations into cases of corruption in the administrative apparatus; files documenting the issuance of certificates of political reliability to various persons; papers documenting investigations into the distribution of forbidden literature and on cases of alleged assistance to Polish insurgents; and documents on the modification of the internal administrative borders of the governorate.
Only one of the collection's files includes Jewish-related information: complaints issued by the Jewish residents of Vistytis against the military officer Major Sigelsky.
- Archival history:
-
The documents from the Chancellery of the Civilian Governor 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.
The collection is incomplete and does not reflect the whole office work of the chancellery.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Chancellery of the Civil Governor of Augustow was established in 1837. It was the highest administrative body in the governorate. The office was closed in 1867 when the governorate of Augustow was reorganized into the governorate of Suwalki.
- Access points: locations:
- Augustow
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Legal records
- Military
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory. The inventory is arranged on chronological basis.
- 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
