Metadata: Chief of the 1st Police Administrative Area, Novoaleksandrovskii District, Kaunas Governorate
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Kaunas Regional State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kauno Regioninis Valstybės Archyvas
- Postal address:
- Maironio g. 28B, 44249 Kaunas
- Phone number:
- +370 (837) 323 111
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/kaa_naujienos.html
- Email:
- kaunas@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- I-3
- Title:
- Chief of the 1st Police Administrative Area, Novoaleksandrovskii District, Kaunas Governorate
- Title (official language):
- Kauno gubernijos Zarasų (Novoaleksandrovsko) apskrities 1-osios policijos nuovados viršininkas
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chief of the 1st Police Administrative Area, Novoaleksandrovskii District
- Date(s):
- 1905/1915
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 68 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection consists of records which refer to different criminal, judicial, political and administrative matters. The materials include lists of convicts for various crimes and data on persons under police surveillance, orders for policemen, papers on epidemics and on evading military service, on political agitation, various statistical data and more. The collection includes some Jewish-related materials. It contains a file from 1914-1915 on the expulsion of Jews from villages in the Novoaleksandrovskii district. These materials include, for example, proceedings and police interviews concerning Jews living on the estate of Zhagorino. One of the proceedings relates to the complaint filed by Hirsch Gravets, the leaseholder of the mill on the estate, on the intention to evict him and his family from Zhagorino. Hirsch Gravets was accused not only of illegal residence outside the Pale of Settlement, but also of the illegal sale of alcohol. In addition, the file contains the complaint of priest against a Jewish tavernkeeper who, according to him, sells alcohol in violation of the rules, buys bread and food from the peasants for vodka, and provides shelter for drunks and horse thieves. Materials on Jews are also contained in files of persons under police surveillance and in documents on persons evading conscription. While this is not evident in the inventory list, it is reasonable to assume that one would also find Jewish names in records of criminal and political offenders, as well as in materials on persons engaged in illegal transferring emigrants across the Russian border.
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The chief of the police administrative area’s post was established in the Russian Empire in 1837. He was a police officer responsible for security and public order on the territory of a certain area. The chief led investigations, had judicial authority and supervised the executive and economic affairs on the territory of the area. Since 1862, he was subordinate to the District Police Department.
- Access points: locations:
- Novoaleksandrovskii district
- Zhagorino
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory.
- Finding aids:
- Detailed inventories are available for free online access on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- 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:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019