Metadata: Riga County Police Department (Riga, Livonia Province)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- 16 Slokas Street, Rīga, 1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 54
- Title:
- Riga County Police Department (Riga, Livonia Province)
- Title (official language):
- Rīgas apriņķa Policijas pārvalde (Rīga, Vidzemes guberņa)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Riga County Police Department (Riga, Livonia Province)
- Date(s):
- 1880/1917
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- German
- Extent:
- 3,386 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents of the Riga County Police Department (Riga, Livonia Province). It includes charters, regulations, circulars, laws, statistics, incidents, accounting, interrogations, permits, complaints, reports, fines, information on the execution of sentences, summons to court, personal files of police employees; correspondence with the housing commission, decisions of the commission; military cases, information on mobilisation; information about roads and bridges; lists and cases of those arrested, revolutionaries; cases of theft, assault, arson, suicide, of persons under police supervision, of persons who are to be deported to Siberia; cases concerning sanitation and epidemics; secret documents; cases of charity societies, associations, institutions selling alcohol; passports, registration and cases of foreigners, information about their arrival, register of foreigners living in Dubulti; cases of the Passport Expedition (passports and personal documents of those who came to the Russian Empire from Finland); citizenship cases; cases on the search for persons and property, military, persons who did not appear for military service; information on books submitted for censorship by the Livonian Control Chamber, correspondence on book trade and printing; cases on the issuance of passports, other personal documents, certificates, on the issuance of pensions and benefits; cases of fishing, forest protection and timber rafting, shipwrecks and timber thrown ashore; hunter's certificates, the right to bear arms; census case; cases of factories, enterprises, meetings and strikes of workers; correspondence on the issuance of certificates of trustworthiness; permits for trade, holding events, opening industrial enterprises, drinking establishments; electoral lists; lists and cases of private associations (including the case of the Jewish prayer house in Bolderaja); cases of political associations; attracting factories, shoemakers and sewing workshops to provide for the military's needs; hospitals of the Riga county; information about refugees and evacuations (1915-1916), espionage (1915), etc.
Some of the documents in the collection concern Jews who lived in Riga County and include cases for different years under the title "about Baptists, schismatics, Old Believers and Jews"; cases over the years under the headings "about Jews" and "about the right to reside and the eviction of Jews, permission and prohibition of trade for Jews in Riga County"; and also a book for recording Jews (1910); the statement of Martz Cyrul about the horse that was stolen from him and found in the possession of the Jew Movsha Zozenman; list of Jews living in Bolderaja (1893); information about German and Austrian citizens, Jews and doctors, living in Riga County, educational institutions located in Riga county (1914); two books of records of births of Jews (for 1893-1906 and for 1893-1903); a book of records of deaths of Jews (1893-1902); a book of records of births and deaths of Jews in Riga County (1893-1902); book for registration of passports of Jews (1908); correspondence on the right of residence in the district for Jews from other cities (1906); about handicraft certificates of Jews, invalidated, etc.
- Archival history:
- After World War II materials from the interwar period, along with earlier materials, were part of the Central State Archive of the Latvian SSR. In 1962 it was decided to reorganise the archive and it was renamed the Central State Historical Archives of the Latvian SSR. The materials predating the period of Soviet rule were deposited in this archive, predecessor of the current State Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Riga County was an administrative-territorial unit within the Livonian province of the Russian Empire; its centre was the city of Riga. The area of
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
