Fonds RU-AVPRI/337-2 - The (Russian) Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society

Identity area

Reference code

RU-AVPRI/337-2

Title

The (Russian) Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society

Date(s)

  • 1844-01-01-1928-12-31 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

Global extent of the fonds: 13 catalogues, 778 dossiers in catalogue n°873/1; 7 selected and described items

Context area

Name of creator

(From 1882)

Administrative history

The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Russian: Императорское православное палестинское общество), founded in 1882, is a scholarly organization for the study of the Middle East. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the society was renamed the Russian Palestine Society (Russian: Российское Палестинское Общество) and attached to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Its original name was restored by the society on 22 May 1992.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

This fonds includes documents from the Palestinian Commission and Palestinian Comittee about schools, journeys of the imperial family, hospitals and every other issue dealt with by the institution.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

The fonds is closed.

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

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

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

    Script of material

      Language and script notes

      Physical characteristics and technical requirements

      Finding aids

      Inventory n°873/1

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      Existence and location of originals

      Existence and location of copies

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      Description identifier

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.

      Status

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Catalogue prepared on December 2017

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          Sources

          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.

          Archivist's note

          Inventory of 7 items from the fonds n°337-2 entitled “The (Russian) Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society” (1879-1918) held by the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI), Moscow, made by Irina Mironenko-Marenkova and Kirill Vakh, 2017.

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