Metadata : Police Warden of Raseiniai Town in the Governorate of Kaunas
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Kaunas Regional State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kauno regioninis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- 44248, Maironio g. 28B, Kaunas 44249
- Phone number:
- +370 (837) 323 111
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/kaa_naujienos.html
- Email:
- kaunas@archyvai.lt
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Kaunas Regional State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kauno regioninis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- 44248, Maironio g. 28B, Kaunas 44249
- Phone number:
- +370 (837) 323 111
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/kaa_naujienos.html
- Email:
- kaunas@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- F. I-17
- Title:
- Police Warden of Raseiniai Town in the Governorate of Kaunas
- Title (official language):
- Kauno gubernijos Raseinių miesto policijos prižiūrėtojas (Полицейский надзиратель города Россиенны Ковенской губернии)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police warden of Raseiniai town in the governorate of Kaunas
- Date(s):
- 1897/1915
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 24 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains documents related to the work responsibilities of the warden of Raseiniai town. The collection includes: a physical evidence registry book; administrative records; registry of Roman Catholics; list of prostitutes; records on the issue of passports/various certificates; registry list of army reserves; list of mandatory regulations for the inhabitants of Kaunas governorate; information on the army’s mobilisation; registry containing secret information; copies of circulars from the Kaunas governor to officials in Raseiniai; records regarding lost documents, the evacuation of governmental institutions and civil servants, police employees, foreigners and modifications of statistical data; correspondence among soldiers of lower rank; information on persons under surveillance; records of police searches of various persons/secret searches; registries recording births, baptisms, marriages or deaths; records on conscription, fulfilment of military obligations and violation of the mandatory regulations announced during the implementation of martial law in the governorate of Kaunas.
Jewish-related material is found in the registry of army soldiers (1908, 1912); registry of lower rank soldiers and the navy (1908, 1912); lists of extended families and passports of particular citizens (1910); a list of homeowners in Raseiniai (the list is in alphabetical order) (1911); in records of mobilisation, which include lists of soldiers (1912).
- Archival history:
- The date of the reception of the documents and their source is undetermined. The fonds has not been supplemented since 31 October 1951. The fonds belonged to the Kaunas branch of the former Lithuanian SSR State Archives. In 1990 the name of the archive was changed to Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Kovno Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was formed in 1842 by Tsar Nicholas.
Raseiniai is also called Rassien in Yiddish. Jews began to settle in Raseiniai in the 17th century. At the end of the 19th century, Jews comprised 90% of all the inhabitants of Raseiniai. During World War I the Jewish population of the town was banished and only a few returned afterwards. The town was also one of the centres for the Haskalah Movement in Lithuania.
According to the YIVO 'Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe’, the Ustav rekrutskoi povinnosti (Statute on Conscription Duty) issued by Tsar Nicholas in 1827 made Jews in the Russian Empire liable to personal army service and thus cancelled their prior privilege of providing money ransom instead of conscripts. All recruits, including Jews, had to serve 25 years in the army. The Jewish community had to provide conscripts between the age of 12 to 25.
- Access points: locations:
- Raseiniai
- Subject terms:
- Jewish soldiers
- Military
- Passports and visas
- Real estate
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged on a chronological basis.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė
- Reference number:
- F. I-17
- Title:
- Police Warden of Raseiniai Town in the Governorate of Kaunas
- Title (official language):
- Kauno gubernijos Raseinių miesto policijos prižiūrėtojas (Полицейский надзиратель города Россиенны Ковенской губернии)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police warden of Raseiniai town in the governorate of Kaunas
- Date(s):
- 1897/1915
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 24 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains documents related to the work responsibilities of the warden of Raseiniai town. The collection includes: a physical evidence registry book; administrative records; registry of Roman Catholics; list of prostitutes; records on the issue of passports/various certificates; registry list of army reserves; list of mandatory regulations for the inhabitants of Kaunas governorate; information on the army’s mobilisation; registry containing secret information; copies of circulars from the Kaunas governor to officials in Raseiniai; records regarding lost documents, the evacuation of governmental institutions and civil servants, police employees, foreigners and modifications of statistical data; correspondence among soldiers of lower rank; information on persons under surveillance; records of police searches of various persons/secret searches; registries recording births, baptisms, marriages or deaths; records on conscription, fulfilment of military obligations and violation of the mandatory regulations announced during the implementation of martial law in the governorate of Kaunas.
Jewish-related material is found in the registry of army soldiers (1908, 1912); registry of lower rank soldiers and the navy (1908, 1912); lists of extended families and passports of particular citizens (1910); a list of homeowners in Raseiniai (the list is in alphabetical order) (1911); in records of mobilisation, which include lists of soldiers (1912).
- Archival history:
- The date of the reception of the documents and their source is undetermined. The fonds has not been supplemented since 31 October 1951. The fonds belonged to the Kaunas branch of the former Lithuanian SSR State Archives. In 1990 the name of the archive was changed to Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Kovno Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was formed in 1842 by Tsar Nicholas.
Raseiniai is also called Rassien in Yiddish. Jews began to settle in Raseiniai in the 17th century. At the end of the 19th century, Jews comprised 90% of all the inhabitants of Raseiniai. During World War I the Jewish population of the town was banished and only a few returned afterwards. The town was also one of the centres for the Haskalah Movement in Lithuania.
According to the YIVO 'Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe’, the Ustav rekrutskoi povinnosti (Statute on Conscription Duty) issued by Tsar Nicholas in 1827 made Jews in the Russian Empire liable to personal army service and thus cancelled their prior privilege of providing money ransom instead of conscripts. All recruits, including Jews, had to serve 25 years in the army. The Jewish community had to provide conscripts between the age of 12 to 25.
- Access points: locations:
- Raseiniai
- Subject terms:
- Jewish soldiers
- Military
- Passports and visas
- Real estate
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged on a chronological basis.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė
