scholarly journals “A Rare Creature, in Mind, in Heart, in Character” (a Relative of Dostoevsky From Siberia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-200
Author(s):  
Tatyana Panyukova
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
Central State ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Exact Date ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Textual Description ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Family

The article presents the unknown facts in the biographies of people in the family circle of F. M. Dostoevsky: his sister-in-law Olga Kirillovna Snitkina and her mother Nadezhda Ivanovna Obraszhova. His first acquaintance with them belongs to the Dresden period of the writer's life (1869–1870). The sparse information that is currently available about their lives was drawn mainly from Dostoevsky's correspondence with his wife and belongs to a later period. Based on a systematic analysis of the preserved correspondence of the Snitkin family (relatives of the writer's wife), memoirs of contemporaries, genealogical and local history materials, as well as archival searches, their biographies were reconstructed, several unknown documentary sources were introduced into scientific circulation (stored in the Fund of the Department of Heraldry of the Russian State Historical Archive and in the Fund of the St. Petersburg Spiritual Consistory of the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg), the exact date (May 17, 1873), and the place of birth of one of Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya's nephews — Vanya Snitkin, as well as the maiden name of his mother Olga Kirillovna (née Maryina) were established. The study showed that the lineage of O. K. Snitkin and N. I. Obraszhovoy descends from Siberia and includes representatives of several famous merchant dynasties of the mid-XIX сentury. A brief textual description of the surviving correspondence between this branch of the Snitkin family and the Dostoevsky family is attached to the article.

scholarly journals Dostoevsky’s Godchildren

2020 ◽  
pp. 240-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Panyukova
Keyword(s):  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
New Information ◽  
Russian State ◽  
First Time

The article, based on archival sources, provides new information about two godchildren of F.M. Dostoevsky: Platon Milyukov (with clarification of the name, date and place of his baptism) and Grigoriy Snitkin (the fact of the writer's participation in the baptism has not yet been noted in the biographical literature). Two authentic metric records found in the Central State Archive of Saint Petersburg are put into scientific circulation, allowing to supplement or correct the information contained in the “Chronicle of the life and work” of the writer. The attraction of documentary sources (stored in the Russian State Historical Archive of service and form lists), analysis of the preserved epistolary, reference and biographical literature allowed to attempt to systematize all available data about Grigoriy Ivanovich Snitkin and for the first time to make a biographical reference about his person, native nephew of Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevsky and godson of the writer – thus adding information about F.M. Dostoevsky’s family circle.

scholarly journals Alphabetical Lists of Confirmed and Ascribed Nobles of the Ufa and Orenburg Gubernias of the Russian Empire as a Historical source: The Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 627-639
Author(s):  
Albina Ya. Ilyasova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Empire ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Family ◽  
Plain Paper ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire

The article presents the results of the source studies analyses of the alphabetical lists of confirmed and ascribed nobles of the Ufa and Orenburg gubernias from the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA). Imperially approved opinion of the State Council of the Russian Empire (January 2, 1861) ordered national noble assemblies to send annually to the Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate “alphabetical lists of noble families during the year confirmed in their nobility by the Governing Senate” and “similar lists of those families, to which, in the course of the year, were attached some individuals.” Most of these lists are preserved in the materials of the “Third Department of the Senate” fond of the Russian State Historical Archive. The archives holds original copies of 39 reports and 65 lists, including 28 lists of confirmed nobles, and 37 — of ascribed, which were sent to the to the Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate by the Orenburg Noble Assembly in 1862-1917; and 48 reports and 89 lists, including 41 of confirmed nobles and 48 — of ascribed, which were sent to the Department of Heraldry by the Ufa Noble Assembly in 1866-1917. These documents are written on plain paper on both sides of the sheet sized 22.2 (width) * 35.4 (height) cm. Most are handwritten. Reports of the Ufa Noble Assembly became typewritten from 1899 on, those of the Noble Orenburg Assembly — since 1911; lists of Ufa Noble Assembly became typewritten from 1897 on, of the Orenburg Noble Assembly — from 1908 on. The lists have a title page. Information about the nobles is given in tabular form. A list of confirmed nobles contains the following information: surname, name, patronymic of the person confirmed in hereditary nobility; date of the resolution of the Noble Assembly on declaring them a noble; part of the genealogical book, in which that person was entered; the date of receipt of documents for consideration in the Department of Heraldry; date and number of the confirming decree of Department of the Heraldry. The list of ascribed nobles includes such data as: surname, name, patronymic of the person added to the nobility; the date of the resolution of the Noble Assembly to ascribe the person to a noble family, confirmed by the Department of Heraldry; name, date, and document number(s) on the basis of which they were ascribed; part of the genealogical book, in which the family was entered; date and number of the decree of the Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate confirming the family to rank among the nobility. The list was to be certified by signatures of the gubernia marshal of nobility, or those acting in that position, and by the secretary of the Noble Assembly. The list was not sealed. These documents are unique and quite valuable written sources on the history of the Russian nobility.

“Other Turkestan” by Senator Konstantin Palen and engineer Nikolay Shchapov

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6 (104)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kotyukova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
Photo Collections ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Photo Collection

This article is devoted to two practically unknown photo collections that visualize Turkestan at the beginning of the twentieth century. The first, stored in the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) and consisting of 4 photo albums, was collected during the Senate audit of the Turkestan Territory under the leadership of Count K. K. Palen in 1908—1909. The second collection of photographs, shot in 1911—1913 in Turkestan, is part of a large and diverse personal photo collection of hydrologist engineer N. M. Shchapov, stored in the Central State Archive of Moscow, the Center for the Storage of Electronic and Audiovisual Documents (TsGAM TsKHEAVD). Photocollections of the Senate audit (under the leadership of K. K. Palen) and hydro engineer N. M. Schapov, in our opinion, can be considered a visualization of modernization in Turkestan and a manifestation at the general imperial level of the appearance of another, industrial, Turkestan.

scholarly journals Naib Baysunghur of Benoy: modern myths and historical facts

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-387
Author(s):  
P. I. Takhnaeva
Keyword(s):  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Ideological Background ◽  
Kaluga Region ◽  
The Republic ◽  
North Ossetia

The article deals with one of the most important and at the same time completely events in the biography of Baysungur of Benoy (1794–1861), the Chechen Naib during the Caucasian War of the 19th cent., namely his stay at Ghunib (August 1859) and his personal presence at the capture of Imam Shamil. This episode has recently attracted much attention and became a subject of various speculations both with a scholarly and ideological background. The author based her research on a wide array of hitherto unknown as well as already published documents. The latter, however, have not received enough attention. The unpublished sources originate from the Russian State Military Historical Archive (Moscow), the State Archive of the Kaluga Region, the Central State Archive of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, etc. This cornucopea of rich historical data allows her to reconstruct in detail the very last period of the Imam Shamil State and to successfully put it within the framework of the and political situation in the Caucasus in 1859. A detailed analysis of numerous local sources, which are written in Arabic and directly originate from the Imam Shamil environment as well as the papers from the headquarters of the Russian Imperial Caucasian Army leads to a convincing conclusion regarding the whereabouts of Naib Baysungur in August 1859. It proves that at that time he was definitively away from Ghunib.

scholarly journals THE FAMILY LISTS OF RESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE STAROOSETINSKOE AND NOVOOSETINSKOE AS HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC SOURCE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
И.-Б.Т. МАРЗОЕВ
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Central State ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
The Family ◽  
Christian Families ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Military ◽  
North Ossetia

В статье представлен документ, находящийся на хранении в фондах Центрального государственного исторического архива Грузии и относящийся ко времени поселения осетин на левом берегу реки Терек в районе крепости Моздок в начале XIX в. Основанные выходцами из Дигорского общества Северной Осетии два осетинских селения получили названия Староосетинское (Ерашти) и Новоосетинское (Масукау). В настоящее время это станицы Черноярская и Новосетинская Моздокского района РСО-Алания. Это один из самых ранних документов, касающийся заселения переселенцами-осетинами Моздокской равнины. Он представляет собой посемейные списки жителей указанных двух станиц, составленные в 1830 г. на основании сведений, собранных в 1818 г., и содержит ценнейший исторический и этнографический материал. Публикуемый документ впервые вводится в научный оборот. Целью настоящей работы является исследование числа семейств в обеих станицах, фамилиях и именах, составе семей, возрасте на момент переписи, социальном составе жителей этих селений, конфессиональной принадлежности, а также информация о военной службе переселенцев и их воинских званиях. Особый интерес для исследования представляют браки. Выявлены случаи межнациональных браков среди переселенцев-осетин, традиция многоженства. Богатые сведения этот список дает по ономастике. Отличительной особенностью приведенных в статье посемейных списков от аналогичных переписей населения в Осетии XIX – начала XХ вв. является то, что они содержат имена и фамилии женщин, их возраст, как в христианских семьях этих двух селений, так и в мусульманских. Материалы статьи существенно дополняют историю Северной Осетии в первой половине XIX века, а также способствует более глубокому и обновленному исследованию генеалогии переселенцев-осетин на Моздокскую равнину. This article presents a document stored in the funds of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia and relating to the time of the Ossetian settlement on the left bank of the Terek River in the area of the Mozdok fortress at the beginning of the XIX century. Founded by immigrants from the Digor Society of North Ossetia, two Ossetian villages were named: Staroosetinskoe (Erashti) and Novoosetinskoe (Masukau). Currently, these are the villages: Chernoyarskaya and Novosetinskaya of Mozdok district of North Ossetia-Alania. This is one of the earliest documents concerning the settlement of the Mozdok Plain by the Ossetian settlers. It is a family-wide list of residents of these two villages, compiled in 1830 from information collected in 1818 and contains valuable historical and ethnographic material. This document of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia was first put into scientific circulation. The aim of this work is to study the number of families in villages, surnames and names, family composition, age at the time of the census, the social composition of the inhabitants of these villages, religious affiliation, as well as information on the military service of the migrants and their military ranks. Of particular interest to the study are marriages. Cases of interethnic marriages among Ossetian immigrants, the tradition of polygamy have been identified. This list provides rich information on onomastics. A distinctive feature of the family lists given in the article from similar censuses in Ossetia of the 19th - early 20th centuries. is that they contain the names and surnames of women, their age, both in the Christian families of these two villages, and in Muslim. The materials of the article significantly supplement the history of North Ossetia in the first half of the 19th century, and also contribute to a deeper and more updated study of the genealogy of Ossetian settlers on the Mozdok Plain.

scholarly journals «Merger and acquisition»: monopolization of electro technical market in Russia at the beginning of the XX century

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-226
Author(s):  
Alexandr А. Bessolitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Merger And Acquisition ◽  
Joint Stock Company ◽  
Stock Company ◽  
Central State ◽  
Country House ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Petersburg Region ◽  
The Common ◽  
Economic Modernization

Introduction. The problem of monopolization of the electric and technical market in Russia becomes the most important one during the economic modernization at the edge of XIX–XX centuries when the branches of foreign electric and technical companies are converted into Russian joint stock companies. “Electric illumination company of 1886” becomes the largest company on this market at the beginning of the XX century. Materials and Methods. The article is devoted to the research of the policy of “Electric illumination company of 1886” aimed at the acquisition of the “Shuvalov electric illumination company in Petersburg region” of the largest electro technical company – Joint stock company “Shuvalov electro technical illumination in Petersburg region” established for the purpose of illumination of country-house plots and houses in the suburb of St. Petersburg (Shuvalovo, Ozerki and Pargolovo) at the beginning of the XX century, which is based on the analysis of the archive materials contained in the Russian State Historical Archive (RSHA) and Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg (CSHA SPb.). Results of the Research. Using the example of the activity of such electro technical companies the author reveals the mechanism of “merger and acquisition” of minor joint stock companies by large monopolists who used different methods of pressure on the shareholders and management of the companies. Discussion and Conclusion. In this competitor environment, minor joint stock companies did not have a chance to remain independent even in the case of a fair court decision. The situation of “merger and acquisition” was actually profitable mostly for the companies’ management and for the leading shareholders who, in this case, received regular dividends, but the common customers had to pay according to the prices set forth by monopolies.

scholarly journals "To Present a List of Russian Orthodox Churches Abroad and the Clergy Attached to Them..." Based on the Materials of the St. Petersburg Archives

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
N.V. Shvarts
Keyword(s):  
Personal Communication ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Central State ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The Government

The article is based on documents from the Russian State Historical Archive and the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg that have not previously been used by researchers, which contains information about the priests served in Russian Orthodox churches in Italy in the 1860-s. It was then that cities Naples, Florence and Rome were visited by the great Russian writer F.M. Dostoevsky. His travels had coincided with a profound transformation of the government of the overseas churches and updating the staff list of priests. When choosing priests for ministry outside Russia special attention was paid to their education. Today there is no documentary evidence of personal communication between the writer and the clergy, but to analyze the situation and activities of Russian Orthodox churches abroad seems appropriate, because Dostoevsky's interest in all events that took place in Italy was great throughout his life.

scholarly journals Guilds of German Bakers of St Petersburg in the First Half of the 19th Century: Conflict Resolution Practices and Everyday Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Keller
Keyword(s):  
Production Volume ◽  
Central State ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Growth Production ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Bread Production ◽  
The 19Th Century

Referring to materials from the Russian State Historical Archive and the Central State Historical Archive of St Petersburg, this article investigates mechanisms of competition and resolving conflicts between tradesmen in St Petersburg and the level of German masters’ adaptation to a new cultural and social environment. It reveals an opportunity to reach a deeper understanding of bread production in the capital over a long period of time. Competitive confrontations between guilds reflect not only the negative aspects of monopolistic tendencies among trade masters, but also the vitality of St Petersburg trades. This manifested itself in constant rivalry among the guilds of Russian and German bread makers, confectioners, pretzel bakers, roll makers, and non-guild pastry makers. The intensive competition could increase or decrease due to national, confessional, cultural, and territorial factors. The 1830s and 1840s were the last period of this open competition: after, all such guilds were united into a single organisation. The author provides a periodisation that conditionally reflects the fundamental stages in the development of the guilds: 1721–1785 (their establishment), 1785–1840s (their flourishing), and the 1850s–1870s (unification and standardisation with new regulations). The struggle for the partial monopolisation of market segments in the 1830s and 1840s pointed to the need for clearer structures. The prosperity, entrepreneurship, and influence of German bakers manifested themselves in the black-market sale of a certain type of securities: bakery certificates whose price could reach 12,000 paper roubles. Bread production in St Petersburg can be used as a positive example of an institution that underwent a century-long cycle of modernisation characteristic of an immobile and conservative society. This cycle of modernisation was based on a catch-up model of development and contributed to dynamic innovation (the introduction of mechanical dough mixers from Germany). The author puts forward a hypothesis that the increase in stiff competition pointed to the limits of the market and thus the limits of growth: production volume could no longer grow arbitrarily, which meant that access to guilds became more restricted.

scholarly journals А. Khanzhonkov and Co Joint-Stock Company and its competitors in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 780-842
Author(s):  
Aleksandr A. Bessolitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Joint Stock Company ◽  
Stock Company ◽  
Central State ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Russian Film ◽  
Film Market

The article is based on the archival files of joint-stock companies in the film industry, stored in the fonds of the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA), the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), and the Central State Historical Archive of St Petersburg (TsGIA SPb) as well as statistics digests Joint-Stock Companies of Russia (1912–1917) and scientific literature and focuses on the analysis of the activities of A. Khanzhonkov and Co Joint-Stock Company and its competitors in the film industry at the beginning of the twentieth century. A. Khanzhonkov’s joint-stock company, which gradually developed from a small trade and commission business that supplied the Russian market with films and equipment produced mainly by European, became a leader in the Russian pre-revolutionary film market. The company steadily made a profit, increased its fixed and reserve capital, and also paid dividends to shareholders annually. The author came to the conclusion that it is A. Khanzhonkov and Co Joint-Stock Company that was most successful and effective in the field of production and distribution of films among Russian film companies firms and was a real competitor to the branches of leading foreign companies in Russian film business, such as Gaumont and Pathé Brothers. However, the company was unable to fully exploit the opportunities which emerged after the outbreak of the First World War due to the withdrawal of a number of branches of leading foreign companies from the film market. By keeping his firm in the form of a joint-stock company, A. Khanzhonkov actually hindered its development himself by not issuing shares for free sale on the stock exchange. Therefore, the company constantly suffered a lack of investment. This was especially evident after the February Revolution of 1917, when new companies entered the film business, which significantly increased competition in the film market. The attempt to transfer the company’s activities to the Crimea in connection with the construction of a new Yalta film studio was not successful, primarily due to the deterioration of the overall political and economic situation in the country.

scholarly journals Mstislav V. Shakhmatov, Historian of Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Sergey I. Mikhalchenko ◽  
◽  
Elena V. Tkachenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Central State ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Law

The article is dedicated to the life and work of Historian of Law Mstislav V. Shakhmatov (1888 to 1943). Shakhmatov was mostly engaged in history of legal and political doctrines of the period before Peter the Great. His concept of the ‘state of truth’ in Ancient Rus is especially famous. However, his biography remains absolutely unknown. The article restores previously unknown peculiarities of the Shakhmatov’s studies at the Saint Petersburg University and his further work in state authorities during the prerevolutionary period, his life in exile in Czechoslovakia: teaching at the Russian Law Faculty in Prague, articles and monograph preparation, thesis defense. The sources of the article are for the most part nonpublished files from the archives of Russia (the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Historical Archive, the Saint Petersburg Central State Historical Archive), Germany, Slovenia, Czechia.

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