Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Imperii (AVPRI)

[Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire]

GENERAL REFERENCE AIDS:

Maksakov, Vladimir Vasil'evich.
"Arkhiv revoliutsii i vneshnei politiki XIX i XX vv."
Arkhivnoe delo, 1927, no. 13, pp. 27–41.
[IDC-in R-10,755]
Describes the Archive of Revolution and Foreign Policy, which then held the materials from the St. Petersburg Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (GAMID) and other prerevolutionary MID records that had been moved to Moscow in 1923. At that time they were combined with the Archive of the Revolution, which later became a separate repository.

Sbornik Moskovskogo glavnogo arkhiva Ministerstva inostrannykh del.
7 vols.
Moscow, 1880–1900.
[IDC-R-11,148]
The basic series issued by the prerevolutionary MGAMID contains a number of descriptions of various sections of the archive now in AVPRI. See especially the general commentary "Renseignements sur les archives de Russie," vol. 1 (1880): 2-49, which includes tables covering some categories of foreign office records.

SPECIALIZED FINDING AIDS:

But'ko, S. P.
"Maloizvestnoe opisanie dokumental'nykh materialov Moskovskogo glavnogo arkhiva Ministerstva inostrannykh del, sostavlennoe A. F. Malinovskim."
Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1968 god (1969): 380–83.
[IDC-in R-10,754 mf. 98-106]
A publication and analysis of major sections of an early nineteenth-century inventory of MGAMID. Many of the materials described are now held in AVPRI, although some remain in RGADA.

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.
Describes the organization of MGAMID with appended documents from several of its divisions. Part of the archive, including the rich library with manuscript books, remains in RGADA.

Bantysh-Kamenskii, Nikolai Nikolaevich.
Obzor vneshikh 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.
[IDC-R-5982]
These volumes, although technically not archival catalogues, provide detailed descriptions of the diplomatic records. Those up to the year 1720 are preserved in RGADA. They were originally prepared (but never published) at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the then director of the Moscow archive, under the title "Sokrashchennoe izvestie o vzaimnykh mezhdu Rossiiskimi monarkhami i evropeiskimi dvorami posol'stvakh, perepisiakh i dogovorakh, khraniashchikhsia v Gosudarstvennoi kollegii inostrannykh del v Moskovskom arkhive s 1481 po 1801 god."

Golitsyn, Nikolai Vladimirovich.
Arkhiv Konstantinopol'skogo posol'stva v Moskovskom glavnom arkhive Ministerstva inostrannykh del.
Moscow:
Tip. G. Lissnera i A. Geshelia, 1900. 16 p.
[IDC-R-11,184]
Initially published as an article in Sbornik MGAMID 7 (1900), pp. 57–72.
A detailed inventory of the files of the Russian Embassy in Constantinople (late 18th–19th c.) held by AVPRI.

Goriainov, Sergei Mikhailovich.
1812: Dokumenty Gosudarstvennogo i S.-Petersburgskogo glavnogo arkhivov.
2 pts. in 1 vol.
St. Petersburg: Tip. M. A. Aleksandrova, 1912. 562 p.; 182 p. [MID]
[IDC-R-10,998]
A complete catalogue of documents relating to the 1812 Napoleonic invasion of Russia held in the two repositories. The second part includes some published texts and extensive indexes.

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