Metadata : Office of the Headquarters of the Head of Civilian Government in the Caucasus
Collection
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- The Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Holding institution (official language):
- საისტორიო ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- The Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Holding institution (official language):
- საისტორიო ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Reference number:
- f. 7
- Title:
- Office of the Headquarters of the Head of Civilian Government in the Caucasus
- Title (official language):
- კავკასიის სამოქალაქო ნაწილის მთავარმართებლის მთავარი სამართველოს დეპარტამენტი
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the Headquarters of the Head of Civilian Government in the Caucasus
- Date(s):
- 1868/1883
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- ca. 10,890 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The Office was established in 1868 as the Office of the Headquarters of the Caucasus Viceroy; between 1882 and 1883, after the abolition of the Viceroyalty, it served the Headquarters of the Head of Civilian Government. The collection includes a variety of materials on administrative, cultural and social issues; some of its documents give insight into the interactions between the local authorities and the Jews, and shed light on different aspects of Jewish life in the region.
Some files include pleas and appeals from Jewish communities and individuals, including a 1868 plea by the Jews of Buynaksk to collect money for the erection of a synagogue; a plea from the same year by a Jewish resident, wishing to open a tavern in Krymsk, and a 1876 plea by Jews from Derbent, asking to mitigate fines, imposed on them due to unlicensed trade of wine; a request of I Zweifel, a Crown Rabbi from the city of Ovruch, for a position in the Caucasus Region. Files from 1880 and 1881 include the regulations of the "Jewish Charity Society of Tbilisi," as well as a request by V Berman, a Jewish woman from the same city, to re-open her brothel, which was closed earlier by the police.
Certain files mention Jews involved in, or victims of, criminal activities; a file from 1876 mentions a quarrel in Tbilisi involving Jewish traders, during which a local synagogue was attacked; other files mention cases of theft, fraud and political offences – possessing of illegal literature, speaking disrespectfully of the Tsar etc.
Numerous documents – appeals, administrative papers, correspondence and so on – relate to the settlement rights of the Jews in the Caucasus and in other parts of the Russian Empire: more than a few files - mostly from the 1870's – include appeals by Jewish from the Pale of Settlement to be registered in Jewish communities in Tbilisi and elsewhere in the Caucasus Region; a file from 1869 includes a papers on the registration of the Mountain Jews and on their places of settlement; several files mention trade rights of Jewish merchants.
Several files are related to the service of Jews in the Russian army: an 1878 file includes correspondence on the exemption from conscription for a Jewish resident of Tbilisi; several files mention the settlement rights and the legal status of retired Jewish soldiers and of members of their families.
The collection also includes evidence on the activity of Judaiser sects, as well as data on cases of Jewish apostasy (such as an 1876 file, mentioning an Austro-Hungarian Jew, who converted to Catholicism).
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s the materials of the Russian administration in Tbilisi were transferred to the newly established Main Historical Archive of Georgia. In 1939 this archive became part of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, the predecessor of the current Central Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The position of a Head of Civilian Government in the Caucasus was created in 1882, after the liquidation of the Caucasian Viceroyalty, and existed until the period of the first Russian revolution. At first, the Office of the Headquarters served the Viceroyalty. In the years 1882 and 1883 it functioned under the Head of Civilian Government.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Berman, V
- Zweifel, I
- System of arrangement:
- The inventories are arranged on a thematic-chronological basis.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People), 2016
- Reference number:
- f. 7
- Title:
- Office of the Headquarters of the Head of Civilian Government in the Caucasus
- Title (official language):
- კავკასიის სამოქალაქო ნაწილის მთავარმართებლის მთავარი სამართველოს დეპარტამენტი
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the Headquarters of the Head of Civilian Government in the Caucasus
- Date(s):
- 1868/1883
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- ca. 10,890 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The Office was established in 1868 as the Office of the Headquarters of the Caucasus Viceroy; between 1882 and 1883, after the abolition of the Viceroyalty, it served the Headquarters of the Head of Civilian Government. The collection includes a variety of materials on administrative, cultural and social issues; some of its documents give insight into the interactions between the local authorities and the Jews, and shed light on different aspects of Jewish life in the region.
Some files include pleas and appeals from Jewish communities and individuals, including a 1868 plea by the Jews of Buynaksk to collect money for the erection of a synagogue; a plea from the same year by a Jewish resident, wishing to open a tavern in Krymsk, and a 1876 plea by Jews from Derbent, asking to mitigate fines, imposed on them due to unlicensed trade of wine; a request of I Zweifel, a Crown Rabbi from the city of Ovruch, for a position in the Caucasus Region. Files from 1880 and 1881 include the regulations of the "Jewish Charity Society of Tbilisi," as well as a request by V Berman, a Jewish woman from the same city, to re-open her brothel, which was closed earlier by the police.
Certain files mention Jews involved in, or victims of, criminal activities; a file from 1876 mentions a quarrel in Tbilisi involving Jewish traders, during which a local synagogue was attacked; other files mention cases of theft, fraud and political offences – possessing of illegal literature, speaking disrespectfully of the Tsar etc.
Numerous documents – appeals, administrative papers, correspondence and so on – relate to the settlement rights of the Jews in the Caucasus and in other parts of the Russian Empire: more than a few files - mostly from the 1870's – include appeals by Jewish from the Pale of Settlement to be registered in Jewish communities in Tbilisi and elsewhere in the Caucasus Region; a file from 1869 includes a papers on the registration of the Mountain Jews and on their places of settlement; several files mention trade rights of Jewish merchants.
Several files are related to the service of Jews in the Russian army: an 1878 file includes correspondence on the exemption from conscription for a Jewish resident of Tbilisi; several files mention the settlement rights and the legal status of retired Jewish soldiers and of members of their families.
The collection also includes evidence on the activity of Judaiser sects, as well as data on cases of Jewish apostasy (such as an 1876 file, mentioning an Austro-Hungarian Jew, who converted to Catholicism).
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s the materials of the Russian administration in Tbilisi were transferred to the newly established Main Historical Archive of Georgia. In 1939 this archive became part of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, the predecessor of the current Central Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The position of a Head of Civilian Government in the Caucasus was created in 1882, after the liquidation of the Caucasian Viceroyalty, and existed until the period of the first Russian revolution. At first, the Office of the Headquarters served the Viceroyalty. In the years 1882 and 1883 it functioned under the Head of Civilian Government.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Berman, V
- Zweifel, I
- System of arrangement:
- The inventories are arranged on a thematic-chronological basis.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People), 2016
