Metadata: I. I. Ignatovich
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- http://isaran.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1023
- Title:
- I. I. Ignatovich
- Title (official language):
- Игнатович И. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ignatovich, I I
- Date(s):
- 1861/1967
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 284 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
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The fonds includes monographs, articles, reports, lectures and reviews by I. I. Ignatovich; documents pertaining to her biography (1900-62) and her correspondence (1904-67); materials of N. Ia. Bykhovskii, including his scholarly works and documents pertaining to his biography and research-organisational activities and correspondence (1905-43); documents of various persons (1894-1939); etc.
Pertaining to Jewish history and culture are documents related to the research and societal activities of N. Ia. Bykhovskii, including a fragment of an article by him titled “From the History of a Jewish Agricultural Colony in Russia” (1926); a memoir titled “The Unforgettable Past,” including chapters titled “The Peasant and Jewish Life of Our Village” and “Doubts as to the Wisdom of the Talmud,” which describe the life of a Jewish family in the 1870s-90s (1875-97); a document titled “Autobiographical Information regarding My Revolutionary Activities” (1934), which among other things mentions that his father had been a melamed and describes his cheder studies; photographs of N. Ia. Bykhovskii with fellow Jewish Colonisation Society (EKO) members B. A. Ratner and M. L. Rubinshtein and activists of the Society of Political Prisoners and Exiles (1911-14).
- Archival history:
- The Academy’s archive was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy of Sciences. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L L Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th-20th centuries, separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th c.) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803), and archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million storage units.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Inna Ivanovna Ignatovich (1879-1967) was a historian. She became involved in the revolutionary movement in 1897 and was a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. She studied the history of the Russian peasantry in the 19th c. under the direction of Prof. V. I. Semevskii. In 1903, she was deported from St. Petersburg to Opochka, where her parents lived, and where, despite being under surveillance, she was able to organise an SR circle. In 1914-17, she was in exile in Minusinsk. She taught at St. Petersburg / Petrograd (1912-14; 1924) and Irkutsk Universities (1918-24), and at the Chimkent and Vyshnii Volochek State Teaching Institutes (1939-44). She received her doctorate in history in 1937. In 1958, she was a member of the group led by Academician N. M. Druzhinin at the Department of Historical Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences to study the topic of peasant uprisings. Her major works include Manorial Peasants on the Eve of the Liberation (St. Petersburg, 1902); The Peasant Movement on the Don in 1820 (Moscow, 1937); and The Peasant Movement in Russia in the First Quarter of the 19th c. (Moscow, 1963).
The fonds also contains materials of I. I. Ignatovich’s husband, Naum Iakovlevich Bykhovskii (1874-1938), an economist, historian, literary critic, member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, member of the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Council of Peasants’ Deputies, and editor-in-chief of the publication News of the All-Russian Council of Peasants’ Deputies; N. Ia. Bykhovskii was subjected to political repression during the Great Terror.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bykhovskii, N I
- Ignatovich, Inna Ivanovna
- Ratner, B A
- Rubinshtein, M L
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- Jewish colonies
- Memoirs
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single inventory arranged according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
