Metadata : Ilukste District Police Administration (Ilukste, Courland Governorate)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 464
- Title:
- Ilukste District Police Administration (Ilukste, Courland Governorate)
- Title (official language):
- Ilūkstes apriņka Policijas pārvalde (Ilūkste, Kurzemes guberņa)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ilukste District Police Administration
- Date(s):
- 1858/1918
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,129 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains records of the Ilukste District Police Administration which refer to a wide range of criminal, judicial, economic, political and administrative issues. The materials include: orders and circulars of various government institutions; the police administration’s correspondence on operational and organisational issues; reports on revolutionary movement in the district; documents on commercial activities; papers on sanitation; materials on surveillance for wanted persons; records on the elections to the Russian State Duma; papers on mobilisation to the army in the beginning of WWI; materials of the Griva town chief policeman and more. These materials also contain relevant documents concerning the life and the activities of Jews in the Ilukste district.
In addition, the collection comprises many separate Jewish-related files. An important part of the collection is materials on the rights of residence of non-resident Jews in the Ilukste district, located outside the Pale of Settlement and their involvement in the commercial activity in the region. These materials include books of registration of the non-resident Jews for 1912 and 1914 (inventory 2, files 3, 4). The collection also contains materials on the expulsion of Jews outside the district due to wartime circumstances after the outbreak of the First World War (inventory 1, file 486), and lists of Jews in the district at that time (inventory 1, file 487). Another part of the Jewish-related papers in the collection includes materials on the imposition of a fine of 300 rubles from families of Jews who evaded military conscription. These documents make it possible to track the procedure for the imposition of these fines in the early 20th century (inventory 1, files 196, 286, 407). Due to the fine, passports were sometimes taken and property was sold at auctions. The collection includes also metrical books of the Jews that were maintained by “official” or so-called crown rabbis. The metrical books in the collection consist of: books of birth registrations from the years 1865-1866, 1868-1870, 1882; books of marriage registrations from the years 1858-1869, 1870-1872, 1874, 1882; books of divorces from 1858-1859, 1861, 1863-1866, 1868-1871, 1873; and books of death registrations from the 1859, 1861-1865, 1867-1868, 1871-1873, 1882. These records facilitate the study of the genealogy of Jews, as well as brief data for studying the history of the Jewish family and demography. The materials of the chief of police (Pristav) in the town of Griva also contain Jewish metrical books of births, marriages, divorces and deaths for the period of 1860-1914.
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s materials of the Courland governorate’s records were consolidated into the newly organised Latvian State Archive which existed throughout the interwar period. The collection of the Ilukste District Police Administration also contains materials of the chief of police (Pristav) in the town of Griva, which constituted fonds number 462 in the Central State Archives of the Interior Ministry of the Latvian SSR. These materials were transferred to the Central State Historical Archives of the Latvian SSR and included in the fund of the Ilukste District Police Administration.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In the course of the police reform of 1888 the local estate police forces in the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire were abolished and a centralised police administration was established according to a general imperial pattern. At the same time, the Ilukste District Police Administration was founded. It controlled all the cities, the small towns, villages and communities on the territory of the district. The Police Administration was entrusted with various functions, including surveillance of the district population, fight against crime, maintenance of public order, suppression of strikes, demonstrations and the revolutionary movement, administrative supervision, registration of the population and implementation of court verdicts.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019
- Reference number:
- 464
- Title:
- Ilukste District Police Administration (Ilukste, Courland Governorate)
- Title (official language):
- Ilūkstes apriņka Policijas pārvalde (Ilūkste, Kurzemes guberņa)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ilukste District Police Administration
- Date(s):
- 1858/1918
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,129 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains records of the Ilukste District Police Administration which refer to a wide range of criminal, judicial, economic, political and administrative issues. The materials include: orders and circulars of various government institutions; the police administration’s correspondence on operational and organisational issues; reports on revolutionary movement in the district; documents on commercial activities; papers on sanitation; materials on surveillance for wanted persons; records on the elections to the Russian State Duma; papers on mobilisation to the army in the beginning of WWI; materials of the Griva town chief policeman and more. These materials also contain relevant documents concerning the life and the activities of Jews in the Ilukste district.
In addition, the collection comprises many separate Jewish-related files. An important part of the collection is materials on the rights of residence of non-resident Jews in the Ilukste district, located outside the Pale of Settlement and their involvement in the commercial activity in the region. These materials include books of registration of the non-resident Jews for 1912 and 1914 (inventory 2, files 3, 4). The collection also contains materials on the expulsion of Jews outside the district due to wartime circumstances after the outbreak of the First World War (inventory 1, file 486), and lists of Jews in the district at that time (inventory 1, file 487). Another part of the Jewish-related papers in the collection includes materials on the imposition of a fine of 300 rubles from families of Jews who evaded military conscription. These documents make it possible to track the procedure for the imposition of these fines in the early 20th century (inventory 1, files 196, 286, 407). Due to the fine, passports were sometimes taken and property was sold at auctions. The collection includes also metrical books of the Jews that were maintained by “official” or so-called crown rabbis. The metrical books in the collection consist of: books of birth registrations from the years 1865-1866, 1868-1870, 1882; books of marriage registrations from the years 1858-1869, 1870-1872, 1874, 1882; books of divorces from 1858-1859, 1861, 1863-1866, 1868-1871, 1873; and books of death registrations from the 1859, 1861-1865, 1867-1868, 1871-1873, 1882. These records facilitate the study of the genealogy of Jews, as well as brief data for studying the history of the Jewish family and demography. The materials of the chief of police (Pristav) in the town of Griva also contain Jewish metrical books of births, marriages, divorces and deaths for the period of 1860-1914.
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s materials of the Courland governorate’s records were consolidated into the newly organised Latvian State Archive which existed throughout the interwar period. The collection of the Ilukste District Police Administration also contains materials of the chief of police (Pristav) in the town of Griva, which constituted fonds number 462 in the Central State Archives of the Interior Ministry of the Latvian SSR. These materials were transferred to the Central State Historical Archives of the Latvian SSR and included in the fund of the Ilukste District Police Administration.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In the course of the police reform of 1888 the local estate police forces in the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire were abolished and a centralised police administration was established according to a general imperial pattern. At the same time, the Ilukste District Police Administration was founded. It controlled all the cities, the small towns, villages and communities on the territory of the district. The Police Administration was entrusted with various functions, including surveillance of the district population, fight against crime, maintenance of public order, suppression of strikes, demonstrations and the revolutionary movement, administrative supervision, registration of the population and implementation of court verdicts.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019
