Metadata: The Provisional Governor-General of Tbilisi
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
- Reference number:
- f. 20
- Title:
- The Provisional Governor-General of Tbilisi
- Title (official language):
- თბილისის და თბილისის მაზრის დროებითი გენერალ-გუბერნატორის კანცელარია
- Creator/accumulator:
- Provisional Governor-General of Tbilisi
- Date(s):
- 1905/1911
- Date note:
- start date approximate
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 619(?) files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Temporary Governor-General of Tbilisi documents the activities of the Russian authorities in Tbilisi and its vicinities during and after the Revolution of 1905: governmental orders, appointment of officials, reports on revolutionary and criminal activity in Tbilisi and in other cities and areas, data on inmates of prisons in various locations throughout the region, correspondence on the permission of cultural and entertainment events, correspondence on the issuance of police certificates etc. Materials on the revolutionary movement, and on various social and cultural issues, can be also found in the collection – including revolutionary pamphlets and flyers, records on the censorship of books and newspapers etc.
The Jewish-related materials of the collection include mentions of Jewish individuals and organisations – such as a 1906 file with a request from a Zionist group in Tbilisi to organise a public lecture by M Streicher (Штрейхер) on the Zionist movement and the Jewish cultural enterprises in Palestine.
- Archival history:
- During the 1920s the documents were kept at the Museum of Revolution in Tbilisi. They later made their way to the State Historical Archive of Georgia, the predecessor of the current Central Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Provisional governors-general were appointed by the Tsarist regime between 1905 and 1917, as part of the effort to suppress the revolutionary movement. Unlike the regular governors-general, provisional governors-general could be appointed by the Tsar and the government without the approval of the Russian parliament and were not confined by the restrictions of civil law. While the regular governors-general were responsible for large multinational regions in the imperial peripheries (the Governorate-General of Moscow was a notable exception from this rule), the provisional governorates-general were established in smaller governorates and localities, both in the Russian heartlands and in the margins of the Empire.
- Access points: locations:
- Tbilisi
- Access points: persons/families:
- Streicher, M
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Prisoners
- Revolutions
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory.
- 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.
- 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), 2017