Metadata: Collection of Writs of the Kiev Revenue Chamber
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-68
- Title:
- Collection of Writs of the Kiev Revenue Chamber
- Title (official language):
- Коллекция актов Киевской казенной палаты
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Revenue Chamber
- Date(s):
- 1496/1808
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 538 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises writs of the Kiev Revenue Chamber, in particular, dunning notices, preambles and manorial writs and privileges issued by Polish kings and Russian tsars and emperors; deeds; wills and testaments; assurance letters; extracts from writs; reports, edicts, excerpts, communiques, hetmans’ administrative-political decrees [uniwersały]; manorial rights of monasteries and private individuals; and privileges granted to religious and secular persons from the 15th to the 18th century.
Pertaining to Jewish history are a writ of Alexander I Jagiellon (grand duke of Lithuania, and from 1501 on, king of Poland) to Dymitr Putiatycz, the palatine of Kiev, allocating arable land on the river Borshchovka that had formerly belonged to a Jew named Ogronovich to Kiev’s St. Nicholas the Hermit monastery (1497) and a writ of Sigismund II Augustus, king of Poland, to Cassian, igumen (father superior) of the St. Nicholas the Hermit monastery, confirming the writs of Kings Alexander I Jagiellon and Sigismund I the Elder granting ownership of the “Borshchovka land” that had formerly belonged to the Jew Ogronovich and of the villages of Gvozdev and Gatnoe (1570).
- Archival history:
- The collection is part of the Imperial Archaeographic Commission’s collection of writs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The revenue chamber was a province-level institution of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire. Revenue chambers (established in the Russian Empire in 1775) administered revenue and treasury matters, including the management of state properties and construction. The Kiev Provincial Revenue Chamber oversaw taxes and administered bidding on state and supply contracts at the province level. From 1876 on, the chamber also dealt with Church lands as state property.
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: persons/families:
- Alexander I Jagiellon
- Subject terms:
- Land
- Plunder
- Real estate
- 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