Metadata: Administration of the Seventh Cavalry Area of the Ukrainian Military Settlement
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-30-02
- Web address:
- cdiak.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- mail.cdiak@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1314
- Title:
- Administration of the Seventh Cavalry Area of the Ukrainian Military Settlement
- Title (official language):
- Управление VII кавалерийского округа Украинского военного поселения
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of the Seventh Cavalry Area of the Ukrainian Military Settlement
- Date(s):
- 1817/1858
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 440 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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The description below is based on a single catalogue entry that describes in general terms a group of institutionally related fonds, which are listed individually in the Yerusha database. The description covers material from the Administration of the Kiev-Podolia Military Settlements, Administration of the Seventh Cavalry Area of the Ukrainian Military Settlement, Administration of the Second Area of Kherson Military Settlements, Headquarters of the Stationed Cuirassier Division of the Watch of the First Four Areas of the Ukrainian Military Settlement and the Headquarters of Eight Areas of the Ukrainian Military Settlement of the Sloboda Ukraine Province. Information known to refer to the fond of the Administration of the Seventh Cavalry Area of the Ukrainian Military Settlement in particular is mentioned in the final paragraph.
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Among materials housed in the fond are charts and maps of military settlements; correspondence of area headquarters on Jewish conscripts sent for enlistment in cantonist divisions; lists of Jewish conscripts (indicating their province of origin and the community to which they belonged); official lists of, and lists of items and money allocated to minor Jewish children drafted in the tenth special call-up in the Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev provinces; information on Jewish cantonists, and on their transition from military jurisdiction to a free estate; lists of Jews sent upon completing cantonist school to live permanently with their parents or relatives; files on Jewish cantonists designated for dispatch to military settlements, with indications of which and how many uniforms they had; and lists of Jewish conscripts who had come from various places to cantonist squadrons, with indications of amounts of cash in their possession. There are also materials from the conscript intake list of a regimental administration committee’s recruit office; these documents contain information on Jewish conscripts and on Jews in cantonist squadrons dissolved in 1857-58, with places of their subsequent service indicated; minutes of gatherings of settlement inhabitants; materials on the regulation of Jews’ trade in tobacco and liquor in village stores; Jews’ applications for participation in fairs, with amounts of collateral disclosed; a copy of a Governing Senate edict allowing Jewish merchants of the First Guild of the Kingdom of Poland to register in the merchantry of this guild outside the Pale of Settlement, in all cities of the Russian Empire; Jews’ applications for permission to engage in commerce and open various workshops; records on areas’ population, with percentages of Russian Orthodox and Jews indicated; files on Jewish merchants’ property claims; etc.
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Particular to the Administration of the Seventh Cavalry Area of the Ukrainian Military Settlement is information on Jewish cantonists of the Ukrainian Military Settlement Seventh Cavalry Area cantonist division who had reached the age of majority and were preparing to graduate to active service in 1857; and lists of Jewish cantonists who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who had not converted, and correspondence of Ukrainian Military Settlement cavalry division commanders with the commander of the Seventh Cavalry Area on rules for registering Jews who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Military settlements were formed in the territory of the Russian Empire beginning in the early nineteenth century. They were administered locally by military settlement headquarters; centrally, by the Special Headquarters of Stationed Forces, headed by A. A. Arakcheev. Under Nicholas I, the Headquarters of Military Settlements was joined to the Main Headquarters. After a revolt by inhabitants of military settlements in Staraia Russa (Novgorod province) in 1831, a reorganization of military settlements was undertaken, also affecting those located in Ukraine. Stationed squadrons were renamed volosti [rural areas]; regimental administration committees became area committees; and supreme administration of military settlements was concentrated in the War Ministry’s Department of Military Settlements. The Administration of the Kiev-Podolia Military Settlements was established in 1827 to administer military settlements in the Kiev and Podolia provinces formed from estates confiscated from participants in the Polish Uprising of 1831. Military settlements were dissolved in 1857-66, and their management and record-keeping were transferred to the purview of the Ministry of State Property.
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev province
- Podolia province
- Volhynia province
- System of arrangement:
- Inventories are systematised primarily chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary