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

Zone d'identification

Cote

RU-AVPRI/180

Titre

Embassy in Constantinople (Russian Empire)

Date(s)

  • 1800-01-01-1914-12-31 (Production)

Niveau de description

Fonds

Étendue matérielle et support

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

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

(19th century - 1914)

Histoire administrative

The Russian Embassy in Constantinople, which was controlled by the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (that had existed since 1819), supervised the Russian Consulate in Jerusalem.

Histoire archivistique

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

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.

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

Accroissements

The fonds is closed.

Mode de classement

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Conditions d’accès

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

Conditions de reproduction

Langue des documents

    Écriture des documents

      Notes de langue et graphie

      Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

      Instruments de recherche

      Inventory n°517/2

      Zone des sources complémentaires

      Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

      Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

      Unités de description associées

      Note de publication

      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.

      Zone des notes

      Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)

      Mots-clés

      Mots-clés - Sujets

      Mots-clés - Lieux

      Mots-clés - Noms

      Mots-clés - Genre

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      Identifiant de la description

      Identifiant du service d'archives

      Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

      ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.

      Statut

      Niveau de détail

      Dates de production, de révision, de suppression

      • 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

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          Sources

          Note de l'archiviste

          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.

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