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SPECIALIZED FINDING AIDS
GENERAL REFERENCE AIDS:
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv v Leningrade: Putevoditel'.
Edited by S. N. Valk and V. V. Bedin.
Leningrad: GAU, 1956. 607 p.
[IDC-R-10,722]
The basic guide to the archive as then organized with detailed annotations of fonds, agency histories, and bibliography of published surveys, inventories, and documentation publications. Includes a list of fonds transferred to other archives. A second volume listing smaller and less important fonds not included remains in typescript (see b-88).
Arkhivy SSSR. Leningradskoe otdelenie Tsentral'nogo istoricheskogo arkhiva: Putevoditel' po fondam Leningradskogo otdeleniia Tsentral'nogo istoricheskogo arkhiva.
Compiled by M. Akhun, M. Lukomskii, S. Rozanov, and A. Shilov.
Edited by A. K. Drezene.
Leningrad: Lenoblizdat, 1933. 280 p.
[IDC-R-10,816]
The initial guide to the Leningrad Branch of the Central Historical Archive, as it was then organized, including the sections of political, economic, cultural, and military-naval documentation, before their 1934 division into separate archives. For the RGIA holdings—political and economic sections—it is now superseded by the 1956 guide (b-81).
History and Surveys of Holdings
Dremina, Galina Andreevna; and Kuznetsova, Tat'iana Viacheslavovna.
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv SSSR v g. Leningrade: Uchebnoe posobie.
Moscow: MGIAI, 1959. 64 p.
[IDC-R-10,721]
A short survey of the history and contents of the archive.
Nekotorye voprosy izucheniia istoricheskikh dokumentov XIX–nachala XX v.: Sbornik statei.
Edited by I. N. Firsov, G. M. Gorfein, and L. E. Shepelev.
Leningrad: Izd-vo LGU, 1967. 264 p.
[IDC-R-10,723]
Contains articles and surveys of sources concerning important groups of records from central institutions of prerevolutionary Russia. See especially the articles by R. Iu. Matskina, "K voprosu ob opredelenii sostava arkhivnykh fondov vysshikh i tsentral'nykh uchrezhdenii XIX–nachala XX v." (pp. 24–43), G. M. Gorfein, "Osnovye istochniki po istorii vysshikh i tsentral'nykh uchrezhdenii XIX–nachala XX v." (pp. 73–110), those by L. V. Vinogradov, A. V. Tapanova, and E. S. Paina, covering records of the Governing Senate (pp. 111–75), the article by E. I. Kudriavtseva on peasant history (pp. 176–203), and the article by E. I. Malkova and M. A. Pliukhina regarding biographic sources.
"[Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv]."
Informatsionnyi biulleten' [GAU], 1958, no. 10.
[IDC-R-10,786]
This entire issue of the GAU journal was devoted to TsGIA SSSR, its holdings and activities. Includes a 40-year commemorative article by V. V. Bedin on the history of the archive (pp. 5–21) and several survey articles about economic holdings.
SPECIALIZED FINDING AIDS:
Opis' del arkhiva Gosudarstvennogo Soveta.
17 vols.
St. Petersburg/Petrograd, 1908–1914. (vols. 1–12, 15–16, 19–21).
[IDC-R-10,725]
A never completed publication of inventories of records of the State Council from 1807 to 1910. Vols. 1–12 sequentially cover documentation from the years 1810–1899. Vol. 15 covers files of the Secret Committee and Main Committee for Peasant Affairs and Agriculture (1857–1882); vol. 16 covers files of the State Council and State Chancellery (1807–1910); and vols. 19–21 cover records relating to Poland. Each volume has name, geographic, and subject indexes.
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Opis' del arkhiva kantseliarii Gosudarstvennoi dumy.
2 vols.
Petrograd: Gos. tip., 1914–1915. 126 p., 143 p.
[IDC-R-11,033]
The first volume covers the first session (April 27–July 8, 1906); the second covers the second session (February 20–June 2, 1907).
Klochkov, Mikhail Vasil'evich.
Pamiatnaia knizhka Senatskogo arkhiva.
Edited by I. A. Blinov.
St. Petersburg: Senatskaia tip., 1913. 257 p.
[IDC-R-10,726]
Arkhiv Pravitel'stvuiushchego 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 RGIA and RGADA. The inventories coordinate the entries with the published ukazy in Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii and include many which have not been published.
Opis' dokumentov i del, khraniashchikhsia v Senatskom arkhive.
9 (in 10) vols.
St. Petersburg/Petrograd: Senatskaia tip., 1909–1917. In 3 series.
[IDC-R-10,727]
Series I covers the years 1703–1737 (with an extra volume of indexes). Series II covers 1797–April 1806. Series III (vols. 1–3) covers files of the chancery of the General Procurator, Dela kantseliarii General-Prokurora 1797–1800 gg.
Opis' dokumentov i del, khraniashchikhsia v Senatskom arkhive: Otechestvennaia voina i kampanii 1813–1815 gg. St. Petersburg: Senatskaia tip., 1912. 339 p.
[IDC-R-10,728]
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Archive of the Holy Synod and other Orthodox Church Sources
30 (in 31) vols.
St. Petersburg/Petrograd: Sinodal'naia tip., 1868–1917.
[IDC-R-10,817]
Unfinished chronological publication of inventories and documents of the central institutions of Synod, as well as ecclesiastical schools, monasteries, churches, and other institutions. The first volume covers documents from 1542–1721; subsequent volumes (with gaps) cover a single year: vols. 2–12 (1723–1732); vols. 14–24 (1734–1743); vol. 26 (1746); vols. 28–29 (1748–1749); vols. 31–32 (1751–1752); vol. 34 (1754); vol. 39 (1759); and vol. 50 (1770). Additional unpublished volumes remain in the archive in manuscript form.
Opis' dokumentov i del, khraniashchikhsia v arkhive Sviateishego pravitel'stvuiushchego Sinoda s ukazateliami k nei: Dela komissii dukhovnykh uchilishch 1808–1839 gg.
St. Petersburg: Sinodal'naia tip., 1910. xi, 964, ii p.
[IDC-R-11,305]
A catalogue of records of the Commission on Ecclesiastical Schools published separately from the multivolume catalogue series.
Opisanie rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v arkhive Sviateishego pravitel'stvuiushchego Sinoda.
2 (in 3) vols.
St. Petersburg: Sinodal'naia tip., 1904–1910.
[IDC-R-7311]
Opisanie dokumentov arkhiva zapadno-russkikh uniatskikh mitropolitov.
St. Petersburg, 1897–1907.
[IDC-R-10,729]
The first volume covers charters and other documents 1470–1700, the second 1701–1839.
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Records of the Imperial Chancery and Court Estates
St. Petersburg, 1887. 236 p.
[IDC-R-10,818]
Covers documents from the Fifth Department of the Imperial Chancellery for the years of Nicholas I, particularly materials relating to state domains.
Arkhiv Ministerstva zemledeliia i gosudarstvennykh imushchestv: (Istoricheskii ocherk, ustroistvo i sostav del).
Compiled by P. A. Shafranov.
St. Petersburg: Tip. V. F. Kirshbauma, 1904. 247 p.
[IDC-R-10,819]
Describes materials relating to state domains from the former ministry archives.
Polianskaia, L.
"Arkhivnyi fond Glavnogo upravleniia po delam pechati: Obzor."
Literaturnoe nasledstvo 22–24 (1935): 603–34.
[IDC-in R-10,730]
Surveys censorship files of fond no. 776.
Polianskaia, L.
"Obzor fonda Tsentral'nogo komiteta tsenzury inostrannoi." Arkhivnoe delo 45:1 (1938): 62–116.
[IDC-in R-10,731]
Surveys censorship files for foreign publications now classified as fond no. 799.
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Opisanie del arkhiva Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniia.
Edited by S. F. Platonov, A. S. Nikolaev, and S. A. Pereselenkov.
2 vols.
Petrograd, 1917–1921. 447 p., 416 p.
[IDC-R-10,820]
Volume 1 covers various papers of the predecessor of the Ministry of Public Education from 1782–1803 with some additional documentary materials. Volume 2 covers censorship materials for the years 1802–1817.
Opisanie del byvshego Arkhiva Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniia: Kazennye evreiskie uchilishcha.
Edited by S. G. Lozinskii.
Petrograd: Gos. tip., 1920. lxxii, 424 p.
[IDC-R-11,087]
A detailed inventory of materials from the Ministry of Public Education that relate to Jewish schools in the nineteenth century, still held among the records of the ministry. Includes excerpts of many documents.
Kaidanov, Nikolai Ivanovich.
Sistematicheskii katalog delam Departamenta vneshnei torgovli, khraniashchimsia v Arkhive Departamenta tamozhennykh sborov.
St. Petersburg, 1877. 643 p.
[IDC-R-10,733]
SUPPLEMENT: Dopolneniia k katalogu delam Departamenta vneshnei torgovli, izdannomu v 1877 godu.
Compiled by N. I. Kaidanov.
St. Petersburg, 1888.
[IDC-R-10,717].
Covers foreign trade materials between 1811 and roughly 1875.
Kaidanov, Nikolai Ivanovich.
Sistematicheskii katalog delam Departamenta tamozhennykh sborov.
St. Petersburg, 1886. 227 p.
[IDC-R-10,821]
Covers documents dealing with customs and trade from roughly 1825 to 1883, but the bulk of the materials date from the 1850s, 60s, and early 70s. See also additional coverage in the 1888 volume by Kaidanov, most of the documents from which are now located in RGADA.
Obzor dokumental'nykh materialov Tsentral'nogo gosudarstvennogo istoricheskogo arkhiva SSSR po istorii obrabatyvaiushchei promyshlennosti Rossii.
Compiled by M. S. Semenova, G. S. Khomiakova, and L. E. Shepelev.
Edited by V. V. Bedin.
2 vols.
Moscow/Leningrad: GAU, 1957–1962.
Pt. 1: —— v pervoi polovine XIX veka. 60 p.
Pt. 2: ——v 1864–1914 gg. 151 p.
[IDC-R-10,734]
Shepelev, Leonid Efimovich.
"Arkhivnye fondy aktsionernykh kommercheskikh bankov."
Problemy istochnikovedeniia 7 (1959): 58–104.
[IDC-in R-10,753 mf. 26-37]
A detailed analysis of types of archival records available from commercial banks in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentienth centuries with a tabular list of existing banks. Most of the archival materials mentioned are now in RGIA.
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Arkhiv direktsii Imperatorskikh teatrov. Part 1: (1746–1801 gg.) Otdel I — Opis' dokumentam.
Compiled by V. P. Pogozhev, A. E. Molchanov, and K. A. Petrov.
St. Petersburg: Tip. Imperatorskikh teatrov, 1892. 344 p.
[IDC-R-10,738]
Although the fond has been somewhat reorganized, this inventory is still useful for description of the materials.