Identity area
Reference code
RU-AVPRI/180/7621/ff5-8
Title
Local administration, governor Reshid-Bey is hostile towards foreigners
Date(s)
- 1906-04-24-1906-04-24 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, fol. 5-8
Context area
Name of creator
(19th century - 1914)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Secret dispatch; governor Reshid-Bey is hostile towards foreigners and oppresses local population, cold relations with diplomatic corps, fights against privileges for foreigners in Ottoman Empire, personal description, revaluation of lands, raising of taxes, population stops to cultivate the land, governor accepts bribes from Jews buying lands and from Greek Patriarchate against Russians; local administration. Sender: acting Russian consul general in Jerusalem S. Zuev; Recipient: adviser of the Russian Embassy in Constantinople A.N. Svechin.