Metadata: Daugavpils County Court (Daugavpils, Vitebsk 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:
- 712
- Title:
- Daugavpils County Court (Daugavpils, Vitebsk Province)
- Title (official language):
- Daugavpils apriņķa tiesa (Daugavpils, Vitebskas guberņa)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Daugavpils County Court (Daugavpils, Vitebsk Province)
- Date(s):
- 1675/1879
- Language:
- Russian
- Latvian
- Extent:
- 580 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents from 1675-1879 of the Daugavpils County Court (Daugavpils, Vitebsk Province). Document include decrees and circulars of the Vitebsk governor, Vitebsk province government, the Judicial Chamber, etc.; minutes of meetings of the Dinaburg County Court; court books; service records of court officials; judgments and decisions of voluntary arbitration courts; civil and criminal cases, including inheritance, waifs, escape of prisoners from Kraslava prison, recovery of damages, prosecution for vagrancy, fraud and distribution of counterfeit money, conflict resolution over property ownership and land borders, purchase and sale of real estate, and about noble origin, etc.
Some of the cases of this collection concerns Jews who lived in Dinaburg county. Examples include the claim of the merchant Kagan against Beshkan for collecting a subsidy issued for transport operations; the claim of Archpriest Koparevich against the builder of the Lepel prison, merchant Zalkind, about debt payment; charges of harbouring cantonists; charges of Itzikovich, Brown and others of trafficking in contraband tea; claim of the official Shakhno on the sale at auction of Shpungin's house for non-payment of money to the workers for logging; improper detention of the Dinaburg Jew Vosna; claim that the houses of the Kreslavka petty bourgeois Khaikin, Zelikovich, Personova and others were not mortgaged; annulment of the agreement between the merchants Liebermans to support the mother's trade and the mortgage on the Kogan's house; mutual claims of the Dinaburg petty bourgeois Beshkin and Kvin, connected with the construction of flammable sheds and the accumulation of flammable substances, etc.
For example, in the 1862 case that the houses of the Kreslavka petty bourgeois Khaikin, Zelikovich, Personova and others were not mortgaged, it is reported that the Dinaburg petty bourgeois Abram, the son of Iosel, Khaikin, Efroim, the son of Zelik, Buchin, Gitka, the daughter of Shmuil, Personov and others (a total of 10 names, patronymics and surnames) on December 11 petitioned the court to issue them certificates that their homes were free of debt. Their houses are located in Kreslavka (now the city of Kraslava); further in the document the addresses of the houses are given, for example, "Khaikin's house on Shkolnaya street". It is further reported that the Polotsk bourgeois Wolf, the son of Chaim, Lev on December 13 submitted 10 accounts to the fire insurance company "Unity" in London. These invoices were issued by the attorney of this company in Polotsk on November 14 and 15, account numbers 37-48. As reported in the document, it can be seen from the invoices that Khaikin's house is insured for 300 rubles, Personova's house for 600 rubles, Fridman's house for 235 rubles, etc. At the request of the County Court on December 12, the Zemsky Court (court of local government) assured that the aforementioned houses really belong to the above-mentioned persons. The city magistrate, the Orphan Court, the City Duma, and the County Treasury confirmed that the owners of the houses did not have any debts. Dinaburg County Court ruled to issue a certificate to each homeowner on stamped paper.
- 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:
- The Jewish community of Dinaburg was established in the second half of the 18th century. The first reliable information about the number of the Jewish population dates from 1784, when 1,773 Jews were assigned to the city. Dinaburg was the first large city in Latvia where, starting in 1785, Jews were elected to self-government. According to the 1897 census in Dvinsk county (formerly Dinaburg county; in 1893 Dinaburg was renamed Dvinsk), 20% of the population were Jews. 32,064 Jews lived in Dvinsk itself in 1897, which comprised about 46% of the city's population.
- Access points: locations:
- Daugavpils
- Daugavpils County
- Krekenava
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal records
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
