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Date(s)
- 1844-01-01-1928-12-31 (Creation)
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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
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.
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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.
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Conditions governing access
Subject to the authorization of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI), Moscow.
Conditions governing reproduction
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Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Inventory n°873/1
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Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.
Status
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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.