Metadata: [Materials Related to the Conquest and Development of Central Asia, Siberia, and Other Territories of the Russian Empire]
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Институт восточных рукописей Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 191186, St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaia nab., d. 18
- Phone number:
- (812) 315-87-28
- Web address:
- http://www.orientalstudies.ru
- Email:
- iom@orientaistudies.ru
- Reference number:
- Category III
- Title:
- [Materials Related to the Conquest and Development of Central Asia, Siberia, and Other Territories of the Russian Empire]
- Title (official language):
- [Материалы, связанные с завоеванием и освоением Средней Азии, Сибири и других территорий Российской империи]
- Creator/accumulator:
- Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Date(s):
- 1608/2006
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 296 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
Category III contains miscellaneous documents that typically belonged to persons whose activities pertained to the processes of the conquest and development of Central Asia, Siberia and other territories of the Russian Empire, including journals of travel and military campaigns; manuscripts of articles; materials of the military and civilian administrations of conquered territories; data from the first general census of the Russian Empire in 1897; a collection of newspaper clippings; etc.; as well as studies by modern researchers of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences that were added to this collection in the 2000s.
Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture (ops. 1 and 2) include the following documents: op. 1 contains “An Index of Literature on Central Asian Jews in Russian (1822-1917)” compiled by Z. L. Amitin-Shapiro and I. M. Pul’ner based on materials of the State Public Library in Leningrad, the Public Library in Tashkent and libraries of particular individuals (1930s); a typescript of a work by S. M. Shapshal titled “A Scholarly Survey of Manuscripts of the Library of the Karaite Department of the Historical-Ethnographic Department of the Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR” (Vilnius, 1952); a thesis by P. E. Monakhovskaia for a course titled “Hebrew Literature” on the subject: “Moses Ibn Ezra’s Book of the Necklace (a Russian translation and philological commentary on the second section, “On Feasts, and Time, and the Beauty of Young Men)”, with appended evaluations by S. M. Iakerson and G. M. Demidova (2001).
Op. 2 contains a collotype copy of “Documents of the Second Congress of Representatives of Jewish Communities in St. Petersburg (1882)”, with the inscription: “Lev Pavlovich Friedland”; a manuscript of a translation of the biblical “Book of Praise, or the Psalter”, made from the Hebrew by A. N. Murav’ev and titled “The Psalter. A Translation from the Hebrew by Al. Nik. Murav’ev, 1852”; a typescript of N. V. Pigulevskaia’s review of an article by Iu. A. Solodukho titled “The Character of Jewish Literary Monuments of the Early Middle Ages” (undated); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IVR RAN) is a research institute in the Academy of Sciences system. Its operations are focused mainly on the comprehensive study of landmarks of the literature of the East, as well as of the ancient and medieval history of the countries of Asia and North Africa. The fonds of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts currently contain a significant collection of Jewish materials reflecting both the rabbinical and Karaite traditions: approximately 50,000 printed books in Hebrew (including 66 incunabula and approximately 300 paleotypes); about 10,000 printed books in Yiddish; over 1,700 manuscripts (among them, 1,217 codices and 79 scrolls), not counting a great number of fragments; and about 5,000 copies of Jewish newspapers (published before 1917). The Hebrew fonds was formed during the 19th and 20th centuries from the private collections of L F Friedland, D A Khvol’son, D G Maggid, V V Radlov, E Ross, P K Kokovtsov and other collectors, mandatory copies of all books printed in the territory of the Russian Empire and books expropriated after the October Revolution from synagogues and Jewish schools. Some of the publications were acquired as ‘trophies’ of the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Subject terms:
- Bukharan Jews
- Jewish community
- Karaite Judaism
- Literature
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises three series arranged thematically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary