Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov: Putevoditel'.
Compiled by V. N. Shumilov et al. 2 vols.
Moscow: GAU pri NKVD, 1946–1947.
Vol. 1: Edited by S. K. Bogoiavlenskii. 363 p. Vol. 2: Edited by A. I. Iakovlev. 184 p.
[IDC-R-10,706]
The basic two-volume guide to TsGADA, now updated by b-29. The first volume describes fonds from the prerevolutionary MGAMID (after the publication of this guide, those fonds containing the eighteenth-century records of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs were split up, and the post–1720 records were transferred to AVPRI) and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century records from the Muscovite prikazy and the chancellery and departments under the Senate from MAMIu. The second volume describes records of the Department of Lands and Estates (also from MAMIu), holdings from the Land-Survey Archive, collections from monasteries and other religious institutions, and some private family papers.
Obzor dokumental'nykh materialov Tsentral'nogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva drevnikh aktov po istorii SSSR perioda feodalizma XI–XVI vv.
Compiled by V. N. Shumilov.
Edited by M. N. Tikhomirov.
Moscow: GAU, 1954. 304 p.
[IDC-R-10,811]
Obzor dokumental'nykh materialov po istorii g. Moskvy s drevneishikh vremen do XIX v.
Compiled by V. N. Shumilov and S. V. Bakhrushin.
Moscow: GAU, 1949. 187 p.
[IDC-R-10,707]
A detailed survey of Moscow-related materials.
Dremina, Galina Andreevna. Iz istorii Tsentral'nogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva drevnikh aktov SSSR.
Edited by V. V. Maksakov.
Moscow: MGIAI, 1959. 69 p.
[IDC-R-10,709]
The pamphlet contains two separate articles: the first, by G. A. Dremina and A. V. Chernov, "Gosudarstvennoe drevlekhranilishche khartii i rukopisei" and the second, by G. A. Dremina, "Moskovskii arkhiv Kollegii inostrannykh del."
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Gosudarstvennoe drevlekhranilishche khartii i rukopisei: Opis' dokumental'nykh materialov fonda No. 135.
Compiled by V. N. Shumilov.
Edited by L. V. Cherepnin.
Moscow: GAU, 1971. 204 p.
[IDC-R-11,083]
A detailed catalogue of the collection of materials dating from the period 1264–1775 from the so-called Tsar’s Archive of the Posol'skii prikaz, especially rich in early charters, legal documents, manuscripts books, and other treasures of medieval Russia. Previously described in an article by Chernov. The inventory with 402 entries indicates provenance and references to published versions. Includes indexes of proper and geographical names.
Shumakov, Sergei Aleksandrovich. Obzor "Gramot Kollegii ekonomii."
4 vols.
Moscow: Izd. Imp. Obshchestva istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete, 1899–1917.
Vol. 1: Obzor bezhetskikh (1300–1767 gg.) i alatyrskikh (1607–1761 gg.) aktov. vi, 169 p.
Vol. 2: Teksty i obzor belozerskikh aktov (1395–1758 gg.). iv, 208 p.
Vol. 3: Vereia, Volokolamsk, Dmitrov i Zvenigorod. vi, 688 p. Vol. 4: Kostroma s "tovarishchi" i Pereiaslavl'-Zalesskii. ii, 688 p.
[IDC-R-11,158]
EARLIER ED. in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 190 (1899, no. 3): i-vi, 1–169; 194 (1900, no. 3): i-iv, 1–208; 242 (1912, no. 3): i-vi, 1–259; 261 (1917, no. 2): i-ii, 1–336; 262 (1917, no. 3): 337–688.
[IDC-in 1369]
A detailed list of the extremely rich collection of early Russian charters and other historical documents (14th–18th cc.) which formed part of the collection of the Collegium of Economy, housed before the Revolution in MAMIu, now fond 281 in RGADA. The introduction to the fourth volume contains an important but controversial diplomatic classification of the gramoty. Part of this collection was earlier described in the series Opisanie dokumentov i bumag, khraniashchikhsia v MAMIu, vol. 4, pt. 2, pp. 1–8, 1–150.
Opisi drevnim gramotam i drugim dokumentam, khraniashchimsia v arkhive pervoklassnogo Troitskogo Kaliazina monastyria.
With preface by I. A. Ivanov.
Tver: Tip. gubernskogo pravleniia, 1891. 36 p.
[IDC-R-11,304]
The pamphlet is divided into two sections, the first covering charters of princes and other documents from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, and the second listing documents ("Tsarskie gramoty") from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Records of Muscovite Prikazy (Holdings from MAMIu)
Compiled by V. N. Shumilov.
Edited by L. V. Cherepnin.
Moscow: GAU, 1972. 327 p.
[IDC-R-11,085]
A scholarly catalogue of 886 register books from Muscovite prikazy, predominantly dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1495–1718). The 3,046 documentary sections are listed under the appropriate prikaz, with cross references to published versions. Includes name and geographic indexes.
Pamiatnaia knizhka Moskovskogo arkhiva Ministerstva iustitsii.
Moscow: Tip. I. I. Kushnereva, 1890. 235 p.
[IDC-R-10,710]
A general handbook for MAMIu describing the organization, history, and composition of the various fonds from older archival institutions with a bibliography of published descriptions.
Opisanie dokumentov i bumag, khraniashchikhsia v Moskovskom arkhive Ministerstva iustitsii.
21 vols.
Vols. 1–2: St. Petersburg: Tip. Pravitel'stvuiushchego Senata;
Vols. 3–21: Moscow, 1869–[1921].
[IDC-R-285]
This large and important MAMIu series includes volumes describing and inventorying various sections of MAMIu along with historical monographs about the archive and based on some of its component sections. The first volume surveys the archive holdings. Records of the Razriadnyi prikaz are given the most extensive coverage, with inventories comprising parts of volumes 4 and 6–9, and volumes 10–20. Extended coverage is given to the records of the Pomestnyi prikaz in volumes 1, 2, and 5, and to those of the Sysknoi prikaz in volumes 2 and 4.
Ivanov, Petr Ivanovich. Opisanie Gosudarstvennogo razriadnogo arkhiva, s prisovokupleniem snimkov so mnogikh khraniashchikhsia v onom liubopytnykh dokumentov.
Moscow: Tip. S. Selivanovskogo, 1842. 452 p.
[IDC-R-10,136]
Razriadnyi prikaz (nachalo XVI v.–1711 g.): Opis' stolbtsov dopolnitel'nogo otdela arkhivnogo fonda No. 210.
Edited by A. A. Novosel'skii.
Moscow: GAU, 1950. 144 p. [TsGADA]
[IDC-R-10,714]
Zagoskin, Nikolai Pavlovich.
Stoly Razriadnogo prikaza, po khraniashchimsia v Moskovskom arkhive Ministerstva iustitsii knigam ikh: Otchet o zaniatiiakh v arkhive osen'iu 1878 goda.
Kazan: Tip. Imp. universiteta, 1878. 47 p.
[IDC-R-11,234]
Survey of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century documents from the Razriadnyi prikaz, now in fond 210.
Ivanov, Petr Ivanovich.
Opisanie Gosudarstvennogo arkhiva starykh del.
Moscow: Tip. S. Selivanovskogo, 1850. 390 p.
[IDC-R-10,712]
Provides early extensive description of the records included in this former archive, which was later amalgamated into the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice (MAMIu).
[Danzas, Iuliia Nikolaevna] (Nikolaev, Innokentii N.).
Ukazatel' chertezhei moskovskim tserkviam i sostoiavshim v ikh prikhodakh dvoram za 1775–1782 gg. Part 1.
Moscow: Tip. L. F. Snegireva, 1884. 177 p.
[IDC-R-10,812]
A survey and inventory of documentation from the Kamennyi prikaz.
Ogloblin, Nikolai Nikolaevich.
Obozrenie stolbtsov i knig Sibirskogo prikaza (1592–1768 gg.) .
4 vols.
Moscow: Universitetskaia tip., 1895–1901.
Vol. 1: Dokumenty voevodskogo upravleniia. 429 p.
Vol. 2: Dokumenty tamozhennogo upravleniia. 162 p.
Vol. 3: Dokumenty po snosheniiam mestnogo upravleniia s tsentral'nym. 394 p.
Vol. 4: Dokumenty tsentral'nogo upravleniia. 287 p.
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Viktorov, Aleksei Egorovich. Opisanie zapisnykh knig i bumag starinnykh dvortsovykh prikazov, 1584–1725.
2 vols.
Moscow, 1877–1883. 660 p. (pagination continuous).
INDEX: Included in Uspenskii, A. I. Zapisnye knigi... (see below)
[IDC-R-7016]
Uspenskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich.
Zapisnye knigi i bumagi starinnykh dvortsovykh prikazov: Dokumenty XVIII–XIX vv. byvshego Arkhiva Oruzheinoi palaty.
Moscow: Pechatnia A. I. Snegirevoi, 1906. 247 p. [Obshchii arkhiv Ministerstva Imperatorskogo dvora] Includes indexes for Viktorov, A. E. Opisanie zapisnykh knig... (see above).
[IDC-R-10,715]
Uspenskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich.
Stolbtsy byvshego arkhiva Oruzheinoi palaty.
3 vols.
Moscow: Pechatnia A. I. Snegirevoi, 1912–1914. ii, 738 p. (pagination continuous).
[IDC-R-11,160]
Describes documents in the early rolls from the former Moscow Armory achive now part of fond 396.
Belokurov, Sergei Alekseevich.
"Moskovskii arkhiv Ministerstva inostrannykh del v 1812 g."
Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 243:4 (1912): 1–96.
[IDC-R-11,170]
Also published separately: Moscow, 1912. 96 p.
A description of the organization of the former MGAMID with appendices providing registers of several specific sections of the archive at that time, some of which are now housed in AVPRI.
Bantysh-Kamenskii, Nikolai Nikolaevich.
Obzor vneshnikh snoshenii Rossii (po 1800 god).
4 vols.
Moscow: Tip. E. Lissnera i Iu. Romana/ Tip. G. Lissnera i A. Geshelia, 1894–1902.
Vol. 1: (Avstriia, Angliia, Vengriia, Gollandiia, Daniia, Ispaniia). 303 p.
Vol. 2: (Germaniia i Italiia). 271 p.
Vol. 3: (Kurliandiia, Lifliandiia, Estliandiia, Pol'sha i Portugaliia). 319 p.
Vol. 4: (Prussiia, Frantsiia i Shvetsiia). 463 p.
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These volumes, although technically not archival catalogues, provide detailed descriptions of the diplomatic records which up to the year 1720 are preserved in RGADA. They were originally prepared at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the then director of the MGAMID, but published a century later.
Putsillo, Mikhail Pavlovich.
Ukazatel' delam i rukopisiam, otnosiashchimsia do Sibiri i prinadlezhashchim Moskovskomu Glavnomu arkhivu Ministerstva inostrannykh del.
Moscow: Tip. A. Gattsuka, 1879. 123 p.
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Arkhiv pravitel'stvuiushego Senata.
Compiled by P. I. Baranov.
3 (in 4) vols.
St. Petersburg, 1872–1878.
Vol. 1: Opis' imennym vysochaishim ukazam i poveleniiam tsarstvovaniia imperatora Petra Velikogo, 1704–1725. 167 p.
Vol. 2: Opis' vysochaishim ukazam i poveleniiam, khraniashchimsia v S.-Peterburgskom senatskom arkhive za XVIII vek. 1725–1740. 1002 p. Includes indexes for volumes 1 and 2.
Vol. 3: Opis' vysochaishim ukazam i poveleniiam, khraniashchimsia v S.-Peterburgskom senatskom arkhive za XVIII vek. 1740–1762. 513 p. Separate index: 305 p.
[IDC-R-10,813]
Copies of many of the eighteenth-century documents covered by these volumes exist in both RGADA and RGIA. The inventories coordinate the entries with the published ukazy in Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii and include many which have not been published.
Ptashitskii, Stanislav L. (Ptaszycki, Stanis¬aw)
Opisanie knig i aktov Litovskoi metriki.
St. Petersburg: Tip. Pravitel'stvuiushchego Senata, 1887. 287 p.
[IDC-R-7227]
The publication of a nineteenth-century inventory prepared in St. Petersburg covering parts of the Lithuanian Metrica that were later transferred to MAMIu.
Kniga posol'skaia Metriki Velikogo Kniazhestva Litovskogo, soderzhashchaia v sebe diplomaticheskie snosheniia Litvy v gosudarstvovanie korolia Sigizmunda–Avgusta (s 1545 po 1572 god).
Edited by I. Danilowicz (I. Danilovich) and M. A. Obolenskii.
2 vols.
Moscow: Universitetskaia tip., 1843. 485 p.; 286, v p.
[IDC-R-11,217]
A publication of diplomatic register books from the Lithuanian Metrica. An appendix to the first volume prints a 1798 inventory of the register books of both the Crown Metrica prepared before they were removed to Russia. Most of those from the Lithuanian Metrica remain in RGADA, as do those from the Crown Metrica relating to Ukraine for the period 1569–1673.
Berezhkov, Nikolai Grigor'evich.
Litovskaia metrika kak istoricheskii istochnik. Part 1: O pervonachal'nom sostave knig Litovskoi metriki po 1522 god.
Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1946. 179 p.
[IDC-R-11,120]
A detailed critical analysis of the early volumes of the Lithuanian Metrica (to 1522), containing significant data about the history of the collection and about those parts remaining in RGADA. Charts at the end provide the table of contents and details about the organizational structure of pre-1522 volumes.
Karpov, Gennadii Fedorovich.
Kriticheskii obzor razrabotki glavnykh russkikh istochnikov do istorii Malorossii otnosiashchikhsia, za vremia: 8-e genvaria 1654–30-e maia 1672 goda.
Moscow: Tip. Gracheva i komp., 1870. 179 p.
[IDC-R-11,179]
A survey of materials relating to seventeenth-century Ukraine, mostly from the records of the Malorossiiskii prikaz (fond 124).
Koval's'kyi, Mykola Pavlovych (Koval'skii, Nikolai Pavlovich).
Istochniki po istorii Ukrainy XVI–pervoi poloviny XVII v. v Litovskoi metrike v fondakh prikazov TsGADA: Uchebnoe posobie.
Dnipropetrovs'k: DDU, 1979. 73 p.
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Malynovs'kyi, A. O.
"Ohliad arkhivnykh materiialiv z istorii zakhidn'o-rus'koho ta ukrains'koho prava, shcho perekhovuiut'sia u Drevlekhranylyshchi Moskovs'koho Tsentral'noho Arkhivu (po 1-she liutoho roku 1926)."
Pratsi Komisii dlia vyuchuvannia istorii zakhidn'o-rus'koho ta ukrains'koho prava (Kiev) 2 (1926): 1–49.
[IDC-R-11,119]
Detailed survey of materials for Ukrainian history then housed in the Drevlekhranilishche of the Moscow Central Historical Archive (now part of RGADA). Covers administrative and legal records including the Lithuanian Metrica, the records of the Malorossiiskii Prikaz, the Posol'skii Prikaz, and other governmental agencies through the eighteenth century.
Kaidanov, Nikolai Ivanovich.
Sistematicheskii katalog delam Gosudarstvennoi Kommerts-kollegii.
St. Petersburg: Tip. V. Kirshbauma, 1884. 408 p.
[IDC-R-10,716]
Covers the records from the Commerce Collegium (ca. 1718 to 1810), all of which are now located in RGADA.
Kaidanov, Nikolai Ivanovich.
Sistematicheskii katalog delam Kommissii o kommertsii i o poshlinakh, khraniashchikhsia v arkhive Departamenta tamozhennykh sborov.
St. Petersburg: Tip. V. Kirshbauma, 1887. 91 p.
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Kaidanov, Nikolai Ivanovich.
Sistematicheskii katalog delam Sibirskogo prikaza, Moskovskogo kommisarstva i drugikh byvshikh uchrezhdenii po chasti promyshlennosti i torgovli, khraniashchikhsia v Arkhive Departamenta tamozhennykh sborov. Also includes: Dopolneniia k katalogu delam Departamenta vneshnei torgovli, izdannomu v 1877 godu.
St. Petersburg, 1888. 204 p.
[IDC-R-10,717]
Part of the materials covered dating from the nineteenth century are now located in RGIA.
Biblioteka Moskovskoi Sinodal'noi tipografii.
Section 1: Rukopisi. 6 vols.
Moscow, 1896–1912.
Vol. 1: Sborniki. Compiled by A. S. Orlov. 1896. vii, 156 p.
Vol. 2: Sborniki i leksikony. Compiled by V. A. Pogorelov. 1899. viii, 105 p.
Vol. 3: Psaltyri. Compiled by V. A. Pogorelov. 1901. lxiv, 175 p. + 4 plates.
Vol. 4: Materialy i originaly vedomostei 1702–1727 gg. Compiled by V. A. Pogorelov. 1903. vii, 104 p. + 6 plates.
Vol. 5: Kalendari i sviattsy. Compiled by A. A. Pokrovskii. 1911. xiv, 129 p.
Vol. 6: Propovedi pervoi poloviny XIX v. Compiled by A. A. Pokrovskii. 1912. xx, 140 p. + 27 plates.
Section 2: Pechatnye knigi. 2 vols. Moscow. 1902–1912.
[IDC-R-11,161]
Detailed descriptions of a portion of the manuscript books from the library of the Moscow Synodal Press, which now form a special collection in RGADA (fond 381). The sixth volume, erroneously marked Chast' 2, is actually part of the first section covering manuscripts. The second section covers early printed foreign books (vol. 1: 1485–1538; vol. 2: 1539–1570).
Pokrovskii, Aleksei Alekseevich.
Drevnee pskovsko-novgorodskoe pis'mennoe nasledie: Obozrenie pergamennykh rukopisei Tipografskoi i Patriarshei bibliotek v sviazi s voprosom o vremeni obrazovaniia etikh knigokhranilishch.
Moscow: Sinodal'naia tip., 1916. 282 p.
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EARLIER ED. in Trudy Piatnadtsatogo Arkheologichskogo s"ezda v Novgorode, 1911 g. 2 (Moscow, 1916): 215–494 (includes pp. iii-xci).
A description of early parchment manuscripts from Pskov and Novgorod based on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century descriptions. Those manuscripts from the collection of the former Patriarchal Library are now in GIM.
Tokmakov, I. F.
Biblioteki Moskovskogo glavnogo arkhiva Ministerstva inostrannykh del, katalog delam i rukopisiam Aptekarskogo prikaza i inym, otnosiashchimsia k meditsine s XV-go stoletiia.
Moscow: Tip. M. P. Shchepkina, 1879. 28 p.
[IDC-R-11,152]
Lists 201 manuscripts relating to medical matters from the Apothecary Prikaz starting with the fifteenth century.
Tokmakov, I. F.
Biblioteki Moskovskogo glavnogo arkhiva Ministerstva inostrannykh del, katalog rukopisiam, otnosiashchimsia do Moskvy, Moskovskoi gubernii, ikh tserkvei i monastyrei.
Moscow: Tip. M. P. Shchepkina, 1879. 19 p.
[IDC-R-11,169]
Lists 112 early manuscripts relating to the Moscow area.
Tokmakov, I. F.
Biblioteki Moskovskogo glavnogo arkhiva Ministerstva inostrannykh del, katalog rukopisiam, otnosiashchimsia do tserkovnoi istorii.
Moscow: Tip. L. F. Snegireva, 1880. 25 p.
[IDC-R-11,151]
Lists 264 early manuscripts relating to church history.
Tokmakov, I. F.
Biblioteki Moskovskogo glavnogo arkhiva Ministerstva inostrannykh del, katalog rukopisiam po iurisprudentsii s XIII po XIX stoletie.
Moscow: Tip. A. I. Mamontova, 1879. 13 p.
[IDC-R-11,159]
Lists early manuscripts relating to jurisprudence (13th–19th cc.).
Tokmakov, I. F.
Biblioteki Moskovskogo glavnogo arkhiva Ministerstva inostrannykh del, katalog rukopisiam, pechatnym knigam, geograficheskim kartam, planam i vidam, otnosiashchimsia do Vladimirskoi gubernii i ee sviatyni s XVI stoletiia.
Vladimir, 1881. 18 p.
[IDC-R-11,162]
EARLIER ED. in Vladimirskie gubernskie vedomosti, no. 14 (April 1881).
Lists early Slavic manuscripts, printed books, and cartographic materials relating to Vladimir guberniia.
Tokmakov, I. F.
"Sbornik i ukazatel' dokumentov i rukopisei, otnosiashchikhsia k Kazanskoi gubernii i khraniashchikhsia v Moskovskom glavnom arkhive Ministerstva inostrannykh del i ego biblioteke."
Trudy Chetvertogo Arkheologicheskogo s"ezda v Rossii, byvshego v Kazani s 31 iiulia po 18 avgusta 1877 g., vol. 2, (Kazan, 1891): 281–300.
[IDC-R-11,173]
Also published separately; Kazan, 1891. 19 p.
Lists 128 charters from the period 1622–1701 and Slavic manuscripts (16th–18th cc.) relating to Kazan; also lists related holdings in other collections including those of Müller and Malinovskii, in addition to cartographic materials, etc.
Golitsyn, Nikolai Vladimirovich.
Portfeli G. F. Millera.
Moscow: Tip. G. Lissnera and A. Geshelia, 1899. 150 p.
[IDC-R-11,230]
EARLIER ED. in Sbornik MGAMID 6 (1899): 403–550
[IDC-in R-11,148 mf. 22-37].
Covers the manuscript collection of Gerhardt Friedrich Müller (Miller), fond 199, which originally came from the library of MAMID.