Metadata: Nikolaev Admiralty Cathedral; Nikolaev, Kherson Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Nikolaev Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Миколаївської області; Государственный архив Николаевской области
- Postal address:
- 54001, Украина, г. Николаев ул. Московская, 1, тел./факс: +380 (512) 37-0065 e-mail: mail@mk.archives.gov.ua http://mk.archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 168
- Title:
- Nikolaev Admiralty Cathedral; Nikolaev, Kherson Province
- Title (official language):
- Николаевский адмиралтейский собор, г. Николаев Херсонской губ.; Миколаївський адміралтейський собор, м. Миколаїв Херсонської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nikolaev Admiralty Cathedral; Nikolaev, Kherson Province
- Date(s):
- 1795/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- (296 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fondsinclude a copy of an order of the army and navy’s main chaplain (5 February 1859) on complaints received by the war ministry filed by Jewish cantonists of Kiev battalions regarding their forcible conversion to Russian Orthodoxy, and on the need, in connection with this situation, to apply “all due” testing to those wishing to convert prior to their conversions, and offer them the chance to refuse baptism; this order also barred any forcible actions; and a circular of the military and naval protopresbyter of 31 May 1903 to the effect that, due to cases of Jews converting to Christianity in order to receive privileges not enjoyed by “persons of the Judaic confession,” the Holy Synod had instructed that subordinate clergy be given the order that “outside the Pale of Jewish Settlement, Jews should not be administered the Holy Baptism without preliminary presentation of a document from the local police attesting to their right to be baptized.”
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was built by order of Nikolaev’s founder Prince Grigorii Potemkin and consecrated in 1794 as a church in honour of St. Gregory the Illuminator of Armenia. By edict of Paul I (7 January 1798), the church was given the status of admiralty (i.e., naval) cathedral, upon which it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the navy; from 1800 on, it was under the jurisdiction of the military and naval protopresbyter (its transfer to military jurisdiction was effected for all intents and purposes only in 1827). In 1923 the church was transferred to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and until 1929 constituted a functioning Ukrainian cathedral church. It was closed by decree of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) on 10 June 1929 and transferred to the republic-level inspectorate of preservation of cultural monuments, to be used as a museum. It was at this point that the cathedral began, for all practical purposes, to be destroyed (its crosses and bronze roofing were removed, and its bells and the belltower itself were dismantled). In the fall of 1935 the cathedral was completely demolished.
- Access points: locations:
- Kherson province
- Nikolaev
- Ukraine
- Subject terms:
- Conversion to Christianity
- Military
- Pale of Settlement
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically by year, and within years, by file importance.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary