Metadata: Collection of Writs of the Chernigov Provincial Administration
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский институт истории Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 197110, St. Petersburg, Petrozavodskaia ul., d. 7
- Phone number:
- (812) 235-15-80
- Web address:
- http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru
- Email:
- spb_ii_ran@mail.ru
- Reference number:
- F. К-150
- Title:
- Collection of Writs of the Chernigov Provincial Administration
- Title (official language):
- Коллекция актов Черниговского губернского правления
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chernigov Provincial Administration
- Date(s):
- 1585/1794
- Language:
- Russian
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 930 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection is part of the Imperial Archaeographic Commission’s collection of writs. Most of the Chernigov writs date from the latter half of the 18th century and the 18th century, and pertain mainly to administrative matters of Malorossiia after its subjection to Muscovite rule in 1654. The writs contain information on procedures for the election of the hetman, legal proceedings, and trade and industry; and military decrees and orders on government measures to protect the interests of the local population.
The collection comprises writs of the Chernigov Provincial Administration and some of the Chernigov Revenue Chamber; in particular, writs pertaining to charters, commendations, service and obligations, including as issued to officers of the Khar’kov regiment and hetmans; administrative-political decrees [uniwersały]; letters to Count P. A. Rumiantsev; extracts from allotment and surveying record; charters issued to Ukrainian monasteries and individuals; and censuses, formal notes, reports, petitions, resolutions, representations, communiques, mandates, etc.
Pertaining to the history of Jews in Russia is a writ issued by Emperor Peter II to Hetman D. P. Apostol rendering a decision in the “case of the Jew Movsha Maiorov attempting to collect money he had lent to a certain Saburov, and the case of the Jew David Alkol and the Jewess Bela, from whom the overseer of taverns of the Shaptov volost’ sought to recover money; and stipulating the immediate deportation of the Jews in the cases indicated”; and a writ issued by Empress Anna Ioannovna to Hetman D. P. Apostol on the general military court’s investigation of a case involving a petition by the Jews V. Kondrasov and A. Jakobov and their associates and “V. Movchan, overseer of the Sheptakov volost’”, regarding attempts to collect “delinquent tavern rental payments” from the latter (1773).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Chernigov was the historical centre of Left-Bank Ukraine and one of the largest cities of the Old Rus’ state. In the aftermath of the Muscovite-Lithuanian war of 1500-03, Chernigov became part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. From 1617-67, it was under the authority of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1623, Chernigov was granted the Magdeburg Rights. In 1648, an uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky took place in Chernigov and the Chernigov regiment was established; this was a military-administrative unit of the Zaporozhian Host with its capital in Chernigov. The regiment was abolished in 1781 by decree of Empress Catherine II. The Chernigov Provincial Administration was established in connection with the division of the Malorossiia province into the Chernigov and Poltava provinces by decree of Emperor Alexander I on 27 February 1802. It answered to the governor and was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; it had a permanent staff and was broadly responsible for administering the province.
The St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbII RAS) is the institutional successor of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was established in February 1936 on the basis of the Historical Archaeographic Institute, which in turn had been formed via a merger of the Russian State Archaeographic Commission and the Standing Historical Commission of the Academy of Sciences, as well as the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the Communist Academy of the USSR Central Executive Committee and the Institute of Books, Documents and Letters of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had absorbed the Russian and Western European parts of the collection of Academician N P Likhachev. The Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was thus descended from Russia’s oldest research institutions: the Archaeographic Expedition of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded in 1829 and the Imperial Archaeographic Commission (IAK) established in 1834. In 1953, the presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences resolved to “abolish the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences (LOII), leaving the institute’s archive in Leningrad”; this latter entity was used to form the Department of Ancient Manuscripts and Documents of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The decision to abolish the LOII was soon recognised as erroneous, and in April 1956 the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was restored. In connection with the breakup of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences into the Institute of the History of the USSR and the Institute of World History, in August 1968 the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History became the Leningrad branch of the Institute of the History of the USSR. In 1992, the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was reorganised as the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, the institute became independent and, in accordance with a decree of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences of 27 June 2000, it was renamed the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Research and Historical Archive arose as a successor to assemblies of the Imperial Archaeographic Commission (IAK) and was formally established in 1837 by decree of Emperor Nicholas I as part of the Ministry of Education; its purpose was to collect, study, and publish documentary sources on the history of Russia. By 1917, the IAK’s manuscript materials comprised 92 fonds and collections numbering over 64,000 archival storage units. In January 1922, the Russian State Archaeographic Commission became part of the Academy of Sciences. Its fonds and collections were supplemented with nationalised archives of monasteries and private collections and with several fonds transferred from other archives. In 1936, all these materials were transferred to the archive of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was established the same year. Also constituting a significant portion of the LOII fonds was the collection (assembled from the 1880s to the outbreak of the First World War) of Academician N P Likhachev, a prominent collector of Russian and Western European documents, manuscripts and early printed books as well as autograph manuscripts and seals. The archive currently contains over 390 fonds, including approximately 188,000 archival storage units.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Moneylending
- Legal matters
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- There is an inventory, which represents a fragment of a guide by M. G. Kurdiumov titled A Description of Writs Housed in the Archives of the Imperial Archeographic Commission (St. Petersburg, 1907).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary