Metadata: Prince N. V. Shakhovskoi
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
- Phone number:
- (812) 310-28-56
- Web address:
- http://www.nlr.ru
- Email:
- office@nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 847
- Title:
- Prince N. V. Shakhovskoi
- Title (official language):
- ШАХОВСКОЙ, кн. Н. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prince N. V. Shakhovskoi
- Date(s):
- 1772/1901
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 1,039 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fonds is a set of materials pertaining to N. P. Giliarov-Platonov, a theologian, public figure and commentator, and author of works on “the Jewish question” in Russia, who was sent abroad on an assignment by the Ministry of Education in 1857 to study the organisation of Jewish schools, particularly rabbinical seminaries, and to study Jewish literary activities. Among other documents, the fonds contains a draft of a composition from the time of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov’s studies at the Moscow Theological Academy titled “Why the Old Testament Church was limited solely to the Jewish people, even as God wills that all are saved and come to the reason of truth,” which reflects an early stage in the author’s views on “the Jewish question” (undated); a chronicle of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov’s travel abroad to study “the Jewish question,” and a list of documentary materials connected with his assignment (1858-59); and also groups of documents he collected titled “Toward materials for a description of the life of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov”; “Secret documents, notebooks 1 and 2” (c. 1893); “Materials for a biography of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov” (undated); a collection of excerpts from documents of the Moscow Censorship Committee pertaining to its review of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov’s work on Jews (1890s); letters from N. P. Giliarov-Platonov to Countess A. D. Bludova requesting that she “procure” permission for his study on Jews to be published without prior censorship, and a summary of the course of his trip abroad to study “the Jewish question” (1860); and to the writer N. A. Sergievskii in which N. P. Giliarov-Platonov admits that his study on Jews was modeled on a pamphlet by Heinrich Paulus, a professor of Oriental languages and theology at the University of Heidelberg, and a participant in a symposium on Jews titled “The segregation of Jews by heritage; consequences and means; or, On obligations, rights, and norms in connection with making changes to the status of Jews in Germany” (Heidelberg, 1831); etc.; letters from the public commentator I. V. Pavlov in Vitebsk to N. P. Giliarov-Platonov criticising the philosopher V. S. Solov’ev’s defence of the Talmud; and giving information on relations between Jews and the governmental administration in provinces of Belorussia; etc. (1886-87); and a copy of the book The Jewish Question in Russia. Based on the Articles and Letters of Giliarov-Platonov (St. Petersburg, 1906). The fonds also contains manuscripts of works by N. V. Shakhovskoi about N. P. Giliarov-Platonov: “From the Experiences of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov,” “The Views of Paulus and Giliarov-Platonov on the Civil Rights of Jews in Christian Countries,” “From Preparatory Work toward a Biography of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov” (1880s-90s); an outline of an article on N. P. Giliarov-Platonov’s political views and official activity (sometime after 1883); “In Memory of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov” (c. 1887); “On the Official Activities and Public Commentary of N. P. Giliarov-Platonov” (undated); “N. P. Giliarov-Platonov’s Years Serving on the Moscow Censorship Committee” (offprints of an article from the journal Russkoe obozrenie no. 12, 1897, and no. 1-4, 1898). The fonds also contains excerpts (made by an unidentified person) from the newspaper Sovremennye izvestiia on anti-Semitism in Germany (no. 12, 1881) and Jewish “cosmopolitanism” and the revolutionary danger thereof (no. 82, 1881).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Prince Nikolai Vladimirovich Shakhovskoi (1856-1906) was a statesman, historian, economist, and literary scholar. In 1880 he graduated from the history and philology department of Moscow University and began working at the Ministry of Education. In 1881 he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and detailed to the Main Archive in Moscow. In 1882 he became a special-assignments officer for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In August 1894 he became a member of the Moscow Censorship Committee. In December 1898 he was appointed chair of the St. Petersburg Censorship Committee. In December 1899 he became a member of the Council of the Main Administration on the Press. In 1900 he became acting head of the Main Administration on the Press, and was confirmed in this post in 1901. He performed several inspections of local censorship institutions, in July 1900, in Kiev, Khar’kov, and Odessa; in 1902, in Iaroslavl’, Nizhnii Novgorod, Kazan’, Saratov, Samara, Tsaritsyn, and Rostov-on-the-Don. In 1902 he was appointed a member of the Council of the Minister of Internal Affairs.
- Access points: locations:
- Belorussiya
- Germany
- Russia
- Vitebsk
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bludova, A. D.
- Giliarov-Platonov, N. P.
- Paulus, Heinrich
- Pavlov, I. V.
- Sergievskii, N. A.
- Shakhovskoi, N. V.
- Solov’ev, V. S.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to structure, and in part alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary