Russian State Historical Archive. Certificate on the results of a comprehensive audit of the federal government institution “Russian State Historical Archive”

The Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) is the largest archive in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It contains more than 7 million storage units, of which 6.5 million are historical documents Russian Empire. RGIA is the object of attention of UNESCO and the heritage of all mankind. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 6, 1993, RGIA was included in the state code of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of peoples Russian Federation.


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In 1925, on the basis of documents from the central institutions of pre-revolutionary Russia, public and private organizations, family and personal archives located in Petrograd (in 1918, these documents were included in the Unified State Archive Fund of the RSFSR), the Leningrad Historical Archive was created. The new archive was based on materials from the Leningrad branches of several sections of the Central Archive of the RSFSR, created in 1920. The bulk of the funds of the future RGIA were concentrated in the Petrograd branch of the II (legal) section, the national economy section, etc. In 1924, part of the collected documents was moved to Moscow as part of the so-called Petrograd Historical and Revolutionary Archive.

In 1929, the Leningrad Central Historical Archive was merged with the Moscow Central Historical Archive into a new single Central Historical Archive, within which two branches were created - the Moscow Branch of the Central Historical Archive (MOTSIA) and the Leningrad Branch of the Central Historical Archive (LOTSIA). LOCIA was divided into 4 sections: national economy, politics and law, culture and life, army and navy.

In 1934, 4 archives were created on the basis of LOCIA, including the Archive of the National Economy and the Archive of Internal Politics, Culture and Life, which since 1936 have become the central archives.

In 1941, on the basis of these two archives, the Central State Historical Archive of the USSR in Leningrad (TsGIAL USSR) was created. Since 1961, it began to be called the Central State Historical Archive of the USSR (TSGIA USSR). Part of the funds of the highest and central institutions of the Russian Empire, as well as a number of funds of personal origin, previously stored in TsGIAM and TsGADA, were transferred to the archive.

In June 1992, the archive was renamed the Russian State Historical Archive. In 1993, the archive was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.

    Composition of funds.

The archive contains documentary complexes on the political history, economic history and culture of Russia, formed in the process of the activities of the highest and central institutions of the Russian Empire.

These are the following funds: State Council, State Duma, Committee of Ministers, Council of Ministers, Senate, Synod, ministries, committees and commissions; state and private banks; commercial and industrial, agricultural, joint stock and insurance companies and companies; railway boards; scientific, cultural and educational societies and charitable organizations, editorial offices of departmental journals, personal and family foundations of government and public figures.

Total documents: 1,359 funds, 6,432,169 files;

8 funds, 139,734 units. hr. scientific and technical documentation.

Documents for the period: the first quarter of the 18th - 1918. There are also documents of the 13th - 17th centuries in the collections and funds of personal origin.

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Military Historical Archive (RGVIA), Moscow

    History of creation.

In 1925, as a result of the unification of the documentary complexes of the Military Scientific Archive of the Main Directorate of the General Staff, the Moscow branch of the General Archive of the General Staff (Lefortovo Archive), the Moscow Military District Archive, as well as a complex of documents from the period of the First World War 1914 - 1918 . The Military Historical Archive of the RSFSR was formed.

Since 1933, the archive was called the Central Military-Historical Archive of the USSR, and since 1941 - the Central State Military-Historical Archive of the USSR (TSGVIA USSR).

In 1992, the Central State Military Historical Archive was renamed the Russian State Military Historical Archive (RGVIA).

    Composition of funds.

Archive documents reflect military history and the history of the Russian armed forces since the end of the 17th century. until March 1918, and also contain information about the country’s economy, its domestic and foreign policy, the history of the peoples of Russia, the socio-political and national liberation movement, the development of culture, science and technology.

The archive contains:

Funds of central and local administrations and institutions of the Russian army, directorates and headquarters of fronts, armies, formations and units of all branches of the ground forces and air force;

Educational, medical, judicial institutions of the military department, institutions of the military clergy, state and public organizations created to assist the army;

Funds of personal origin, collections of the former Military Scientific Archive and other military institutions on the history of Russia, wars, armed forces, military art;

Collections of maps, plans, drawings and other graphic documents.

Total: 13,642 funds, 3,269,842 cases;

16 funds, 127,786 units. hr. Scientific and technical documentation

Documents for the period: beginning XVIII century – 1918. The collections also contain individual documents from the 16th – 17th centuries.

Page on the “Archives of Russia” website: http://www.rusarchives.ru/federal/rgia/index.shtml

The Russian State Historical Archive is the largest historical archive (the archive funds contain about 6.5 million storage units), the main archival repository of documents of the central government agencies Russian Empire at the end of the 18th – beginning of the 20th centuries.

The archive was formed in 1925 on the basis of the Leningrad divisions of several sections of the Central Archive of the RSFSR. In 1929 – 1934 it was called the Leningrad branch of the Central Historical Archive. In 1934, LOCIA was divided into 4 archives, incl. Archive of National Economy and Archive of Internal Politics, Culture and Life. From these two archives, the Central State Historical Archive in Leningrad was formed in 1941 (since 1961 - Central State Historical Archive of the USSR, in 1992 - Russian State Historical Archive).

Until 2006, the archive was located in the Senate and Synod building. In 2006 – 2007 all archive documents were transported to a new building at 36 Zanevsky Prospekt.

The funds of the Russian State Historical Archive in relation to genealogical research are most in demand when studying noble genealogies and biographies of civil service officials. In this case, the Russian State Historical Archive is usually the main archive for research; materials from regional archives are used as additional ones.

I will characterize the main funds of the Russian State Historical Archive, the most in demand in genealogical research:

  • The Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate (f. 1343) is a fund that stores the main body of documents for the study of noble genealogies. In addition, the composition includes cases of personal and hereditary honorary citizens. I will list the key documents of the Department of Heraldry:
    • Arms department with files on provincial, city and noble coats of arms.
    • Cases on inclusion in the nobility (separately for 1813–1894 and 1894–1917) are the main source on the history of noble families. In these cases, to include any family members, evidence of belonging to the nobility (documents on land ownership, formal lists, etc.) and confirmation of kinship (metric certificates) are provided.
    • Noble genealogical books and lists of those numbered from different provinces, which represent a list of families ranked among the nobility of any province.
    • Cases of audit commissions of noble deputy assemblies created in the 1840s. to check all cases of nobility in the provinces.
    • Cases of hereditary and personal honorary citizens.
  • Formal lists of civil department officials (form 1349). This fund is a collection of formal (i.e. service records) lists of officials that were sent to the Department of Heraldry (until 1846) and to the Inspectorate Department of the 1st Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (in 1846 - 1917). This collection also includes formal lists from destroyed personal files.

The Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg stores more than 6.5 million documents on the history of the Russian Empire. Its scientific and reference library numbers over 420 thousand volumes, including rare handwritten and old printed publications.

The Leningrad Central Historical Archive was formed in 1925 on the basis of the Leningrad branches of the sections of the Central Archive of the RSFSR, created in 1922. In 1941, after a series of transformations, the Central State Historical Archive in Leningrad (TSGIAL) was organized, since 1961 it was renamed the Central State Historical Archive of the USSR (TSGIA USSR; since 1992 - RGIA).

In 1993, the archive was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.

The archive's holdings include 6,576,620 storage units for the period from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century; The library contains more than 400 thousand volumes of rare publications, including rare handwritten and early printed books.

Here are collected relics and personal papers of Peter I, Catherine II and all Russian emperors, documents of the highest institutions of the empire, plans of cities, churches, drawings of many architectural monuments not only of Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also of other cities of Russia, affairs of the Russian elite of the 18th–20th centuries, collections of church books of the 13th century. The RGIA stores the funds of almost all ministries and main departments operating on the territory of the Russian Empire in the 19th - early 20th centuries, funds of scientific, cultural, educational, artistic and charitable institutions, personal materials of the most famous noble families of Russia, scientists, historians (for example, N. . M. Karamzin), genealogists and numismatists, as well as materials on the history of architecture and urban planning in Russia (drawings, sketches, drawings by Bazhenov, Voronikhin, Quarenghi, Montferrand, Rastrelli, Rinaldi, Rossi, Stasov, Stackenschneider, etc.). By decree of the President of the Russian Federation in 1993, the RGIA was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia.

RGIA documents contain information not only on the history of the state and society, but also on the fate of individuals, families and clans. Among them are cases of elevation to the Russian nobility and hereditary honorary citizenship, numerous cases of service, etc. Sources on genealogy are supplemented by a unique collection of sources on heraldry. It includes 126 letters of grant of high artistic value for princely, count, baronial and noble dignity of the Russian Empire, a single copy of the General Armorial of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, as well as cases on the assignment and confirmation of coats of arms of the Senate Heraldry Department.

Previously, the RGIA was located in the complex of buildings of the Senate, Synod and the mansion of the Counts of Laval. In 2005–2006, by decision of the government of the Russian Federation, a new special complex of buildings was built for the archive (Zanevsky Ave., 36) - new archive buildings with a total area of ​​about 60 thousand square meters. m. The archival complex includes reading rooms, rooms with free access (exhibition and conference rooms), storage facilities with strictly limited access in the form of a brick bunker with special regime conditioning. There is also a historical and archival block with laboratories for restoration and microfilming. This complex meets the most modern requirements for ensuring the safety of archival documents.

The opening ceremony of the new archival complex of the Russian State Historical Archive, the customer of which is the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko.

In his speech, V. Putin noted that the Russian State Historical Archive is the largest archive in Europe, related to the history of 85 countries of the world; in its scale and in its value it is comparable to.

The new buildings of the Russian State Archive are adapted not only for storing, but also for studying documents. As V. Putin said, the next stage will be the transfer of existing historical information to new, electronic and digital media.

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