Metadata: Count M. A. Korf
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The National Library of Russia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российская национальная библиотека. Отдел рукописей.
- Postal address:
- 91069, Russia, St. Petersburg, ul. Sadovaia, д. 18, main building; tel.: (812) 310-28-56; fax: (812) 310-61-48; e-mail: office@nlr.ru http://www.nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 380
- Title:
- Count M. A. Korf
- Title (official language):
- КОРФ, гр. М. А.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Count M. A. Korf
- Date(s):
- 1744/1867
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 663 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Op. 2 contains documents pertaining to Jewish history and culture, including clippings (with marks made by M. A. Korf) from The Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire used during work on the book Nicholas I’s Ascension to the Throne, and in particular, from part III, section IV, “On the transition from one faith to another, and on marriages between persons of differing religious confessions”; from section VIII, “Religious confessions”; and part IV, “Jews,” of section XI, “Special local decrees” (1830-60). Other materials for this book housed in the fonds include certain legal decrees (1825-26): the Synod Statute; an announcement by the chief procurator to the administrator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs titled “On married persons who convert from the Judaic sect to Russian Orthodoxy”; an imperially ratified opinion of the State Council titled “On marriages concluded between persons of the Gospel confession and Jews or Mohammedans”; a Senate edict titled “On the punishment set for the Jews who seduced two Catholic girls into their faith, and on strict observance to prevent Christians from henceforth working as servants for Jews”; a statue of the Committee of Ministers titled “On alleviating payment of state levies by Jewish settlers”; an imperially ratified statute of the Committee of Ministers announced to the Senate by the administrator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs titled “On barring Jews from being employed as distillers in the Belorussian provinces”; an imperially ratified statute of the Committee of Ministers titled “On barring the issuance of passports to Jews for travel abroad by way of the sea”; Senate edicts titled “On permitting that contracts for collection of the Jewish korobka [kosher meat tax] be concluded solely upon presentation of corresponding commercial certification sums”; “On auditing the books of the Jewish korobka [kosher meat tax]”; “On providing confirmation to revenue chambers such that in their registration of the tax-paying status of Jews, they indicate the time the persons in question came from abroad and swore the oath of allegiance to Russia”; “On barring the issuance of passports for passage in the interior provinces of Russia to Jews who do not belong to the class of factory owner, artist, craftsman, or merchant”; an imperially ratified opinion of the State Council titled “On the use of the Jewish korobka [kosher meat tax]”; and a Senate edict on an imperially ratified statute of the Committee of Ministers titled “On allowing Jews to bid for the right to run postal stations.”
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Baron Modest Andreevich Korf (1800-76), from 1867 on, Count Korf, was a statesman and historian. He studied at the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum together with A. S. Pushkin. He served first in the Ministry of Justice and the Commission to Devise Laws, and then at the Ministry of Finance. For approximately five years he worked for Count M. M. Speranskii at the Second Department of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancery, at the same time remaining vice-director of the Finance Ministry’s Department of Various Taxes and Levies. From 1831 he served as administrator of the Committee of Ministers; he became a state secretary in 1834, and in 1843 a member of the State Council. In 1848 he was appointed a member of the Privy Committee for the Oversight of Book Publishing, of which he became chair in 1855. From 1849-61 he was director of the Imperial Public Library. In 1861 he was appointed general manager of the Second Department of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancery, and in 1864, chair of the State Council’s Department of Laws. He was a founding member of the Imperial Russian Historical Society (1866). In December 1852, he became an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He was the author of several historical studies, including Nicholas I’s Ascension to the Throne (St. Petersburg, 1857); The Life of Count Speranskii (2 vols., St. Petersburg, 1861); etc.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Korf, M. A.
- Nicholas I
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Conversion to Christianity
- Conversion to Islam
- Conversion to Judaism
- Interfaith marriage
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Legal status of Jews
- Newspaper clippings
- Passports and visas
- Taxation
- Taxation--Korobka
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes two inventories (op. 1 – the collection; op. 2 – M. A. Korf’s archive) systematised by structure, and in part alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
