Metadata: The County Board (Уездное правление (Uezdnoe pravlenie)) of Gori
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. 48
- Title:
- The County Board (Уездное правление (Uezdnoe pravlenie)) of Gori
- Title (official language):
- გორის საბაზრო მმართველობა
- Creator/accumulator:
- County Board of Gori
- Date(s):
- 1840/1916
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3,604 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The archival collection of the County Board of Gori includes materials on a wide array of administrative, criminal, economic, cultural and other subjects. A considerable part of it is Jewish-related material. These records can be classified into the following categories:
1. Financial and landowning subjects that were brought before the County's authorities. These include complaints on unpaid debts owed to local Jews and by them, such as a 1849 file discussing the evaluation of the assets of Abraham and Israel Krihely, who owed money to a Georgian local; a file from the same year addressing a dispute between two groups of Jews over the possession of a shop; papers on the selling of two gardens belonging to a peasant who owed money to the Hakham Moshe Papismedashvili (1847); complaints on the decisions of local courts on financial disputes involving Jews and other similar cases from different years and localities (Gori, Surami, Tskhinvali, Variani and others).
2. Files mentioning the legal status of the Jews, taxation and other duties. These include records on Jewish serfs (such as a files from the 1840s and the 1860s, mentioning the release from serfdom of the members of the Krihely and Patarkatsishvili families), requests of Jews to settle in various localities in the Region and registration of Jews in these localities (such as an appeal filed in 1864 by Jews from the village Breti, who wished to move to Kutaisi), records on illegal settlement of Jews in certain localities and their expulsion (such as a 1870 file from the village of Tseronisi), correspondence on the collection of data on the Jewish population (a 1845 request to provide statistics on the County's Jews' vital records, correspondence from 1902 on non-local Jews residing in the County etc.). Some files include information on Jewish traders and pedlars, such as a file from 1845 mentioning Jews from Persia that were engaged in trade in the County.
3. Several files mention crimes and cases of violence involving Jews: a file from 1842 mentions an alleged assault of Jews from the Magalov family against a member of the Georgian nobility; several files from the 1850s mention cases of robbery of Jewish traders and merchants. A file from the second half of the 1840s mentions a search after a Jewish individual suspected of counterfeiting.
- 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 County of Gori was established after the annexation of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakhetito to the Russian Empire in 1801. From 1801 and under the creation of the Governorate of Georgia-Imeretia in 1840, it was a part of the Governorate of Georgia. From the second half of the 1840s until after the revolutions of 1917 the County was part of the Governorate of Tbilisi.
- Access points: locations:
- Tskhinvali
- Access points: persons/families:
- Krihely, Abraham
- Krihely, Israel
- Magalov
- Papismedashvili, Moshe
- Patarkatsishvili
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory, which is arranged according on a structural-chronological basis. It includes five thematic groups: 1. Administrative, police and similar records; 2; Taxation, land owning, military conscription and other duties; 3. Trade and manufacture; 4. Social issues, revolutionary movement; 5. Culture and religion, varia.
- 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
