Fonds RU-AVPRI/180 - Embassy in Constantinople (Russian Empire)

Global extent of the fonds: 12519 units; 520 selected and described items

The collection contains the following materials: tsars’ rescripts, relations from Envoys in Constantinople, correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Ecclesiastic Mission (since 1867 – Embassy), correspondence between the Mission and Ottoman authorities, diplomatic corps in Constantinople, Russian consular offices in the Ottoman Empire (including Jerusalem); correspondence with Russian envoys in other countries, messages on ecclesiastic matters, on Russian property in the Ottoman Empire, on the Russian-Turkish wars, on peace treaties, on the situation in the Balkans, on the police of great states in the Ottoman Empire, international conferences; directives from the Embassy in Constantinople to Russian consulates on the territory of the Ottoman Empire; correspondence with private persons.
The collection also includes thematic files of correspondence between Ambassadors and the Consulate in Jerusalem over several years.
Besides, there are many thematic files on various events in Jerusalem and Palestine.

The selected items are (mainly) documents from the Russian Consulate in Jerusalem, which records had been plundered and lost throughout several wars.

The fonds is closed.

Subject to the authorization of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI), Moscow.

Inventory n°517/2

Cyril Vakh, Irina Mironenko-Marenkova, “An Institution, Its People and Its Documents: The Russian Consulate in Jerusalem through the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire (1858-1914)”, in XXXX, forthcoming.

ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.

• December 2016, 1st mission (focus on 1860-1880): 25 selected files, 237 described items
• June-December 2017, 2nd mission (focus on 1881-1914): 283 described items

Inventory of 520 items from the collection n°180 entitled “Russian Embassy in Constantinople” (1860-1914) held by the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI), Moscow, made by Irina Mironenko-Marenkova and Kirill Vakh, 2016-2017.