RGADA stores documents for the period from the 11th to the beginning of the 20th centuries. The archive funds include materials from institutions of higher, central and local government of the Russian state and Russian Empire that existed before the administrative reforms of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. (except for the funds of the collegiums - Admiralty, Foreign and Military), funds of the central survey institutions of Russia in the 18th-early 20th centuries, documents of state and public figures, figures of science and culture, estates, family and monastery archives, collections of written monuments of history, culture and life of the Russian and other peoples of the Russian Empire, collections of domestic and foreign handwritten books, early printed and rare editions of the 15th-19th centuries.
The most valuable part of the RGADA materials is the collection of the most ancient act monuments of the State Ancient Repository of Charters and Manuscripts. It includes about 400 items. ridge and consists of the remains of the archives of the great and specific princes, the archives of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov, the Moscow Grand Duke and the so-called Tsar's archive of the sixteenth century. The earliest document of this collection is the treaty charter of Veliky Novgorod with the Grand Duke of Tver and Vladimir Yaroslav Yaroslavich in 1264. In addition to spiritual, contractual and other acts, there are lists of legislative monuments of the 11th-17th centuries: Russkaya Pravda, Sudebnik 1497 of Ivan III (the only a list known to science), the Sudebnik of Ivan IV of 1550, as well as the original column of the Cathedral Code of 1649.
Documents of the higher administration of Russia in the 17th-18th centuries. contained in the funds of the personal offices of the monarchs - the Order of Secret Affairs, the "Cabinets" of Peter I (1694-1727), Catherine II (1762-1796), Paul I (1796-1801); Office of State Secretaries, Near Office (1699-1718), Supreme Privy Council (1726-1730), Governing Senate (1711-1917), senatorial and synodal institutions. In the categories of the State Archive of the Russian Empire there is documentation of the bodies of political investigation, supervision and investigation - the Preobrazhensky Prikaz (1686-1729), the Secret Office (1718-1726) and the Secret Expedition of the Senate (1762-1801), secret investigative commissions of the XIX century.
Materials of institutions of the central industry and territorial administration are represented by the funds of almost all orders of the 16th-early 18th centuries: Aptekarsky, Grand Parish and Big Treasury, Little Russian, Local, Ambassadorial, Discharge, Siberian, palace and quarter orders.
The management of industry and trade in the 17th-19th centuries, the financial policy of the Russian government were reflected in the funds of orders and collegiums (Berg-, Chambers-, Commerce-, Manufaktura-), the Main Magistrate, customs, offices and offices of the 18th century, as well as in funds of noble families who owned factories, factories and mines.
The activities of local government institutions of the XVI-XVIII centuries. is reflected in the funds of clerk, lip and category huts, provincial, provincial and district (voivodship) offices, institutions for the management of certain categories of the population (palace, state and economic peasants, single-palaces, colonists), as well as state forests and crafts.
Agrarian relations in pre-revolutionary Russia were reflected in the funds of the Votchina Collegium, Local and Discharge Orders.
Among the monastic funds are the funds of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Solovetsky, and other monasteries, characterizing land ownership, economy, management of monastic peasants, construction of church buildings and other issues.
Scribal, census and boundary books of the 15th-17th centuries, the fund of the Local Order, documents of revisions of the population of the 18th century, funds of central boundary institutions of the 18th-early 20th centuries. (land survey offices, Office of the Chief Director of the Land Survey Corps), which carried out general, special and special land surveying, contain versatile information about geography, natural conditions, demography, economic development individual regions of the country and individual settlements.
A significant group in the RGADA are the funds of palace institutions, including the Main Palace Chancellery and its offices (1721-1786), the Ministry of the Imperial Court.
The materials of the Ambassadorial, Siberian, Little Russian orders, the Senate, and the categories of the State Archives widely cover Russia's relations with foreign states, relations with the peoples that later became part of the Russian Empire, their history and culture.
In the funds-collections of the State Archives and the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs, the Armory and the Palace Archives, as well as in the collections of handwritten books from the handwritten departments of the Library of the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs and the Synodal Printing House, the collections of F.F. Mazurin, Prince. M. A. Obolensky, the Sarov desert, monuments of Russian culture are kept - an ancient Slavic manuscript of the 11th century. from the library of the Moscow Synodal Printing House "Savvin's Book", the Sofia First Chronicle in the list of the 15th century, the Nikon Chronicle of the 16th century, and other ancient Russian chronicles in the lists of the 15th-19th centuries. Russian and translated secular and theological literature is widely represented in the manuscript collections of the RGADA - the works of Maxim Grek, Joseph Volotsky, Prince. A. M. Kurbsky, Archpriest Avvakum, as well as manuscripts in classical, Slavic, Western European and Eastern languages.
Family and personal funds of the largest landowners, industrialists, statesmen of pre-revolutionary Russia: the Bobrinskys, Vorontsovs, Gagarins, Golitsyns, Goncharovs, Demidovs, Panins, Sheremetevs, Shuvalovs, Yusupovs, include materials on private land ownership, trade and industry, domestic and foreign policy, science and culture, characterize official and social activities members of the ruling elite.
This section contains materials of the genealogical mailing list, which was sent out by our project in 2002-2003. The author of the mailing list is Lyudmila Biryukova, who at that moment was the host of the site. The mailing list is not currently active.
RGADA - Russian state archive of ancient acts is a kind of Rome. All genealogical roads inevitably lead there. Not a single high-quality pedigree could do without RGADA. Everything's there. Reading rooms are packed with visitors, to get there, you have to come to the opening, but it's worth it.
This is a huge archive. 1,383 ff., 3,313,000 units khr., XI century - 1917 funds of institutions - 2 284 353 units. hr.; personal funds - 222 445 units. hr.; handwritten books - 12 597 units. hr.; scientific and technical documentation - 792 405 units. ridge This, of course, does not mean anything if you do not know what is there.
Do you think that if you are still in the middle of the nineteenth century, you have nothing to do in RGADA? You are wrong.
RGADA stores documents for the period from the 11th to the beginning of the 20th centuries.
For example, there are funds of the central land surveying institutions of Russia in the 18th-early 20th centuries, that is, all information about land ownership. The materials of the institutions of the central sectoral and territorial administration are represented by the funds of almost all orders of the 16th-early 18th centuries: Aptekarsky, Big Parish and Big Treasury, Little Russian, Local, Ambassadorial, Razryadny, Siberian, palace and quarter orders.
If your ancestors were known at court, you may be interested in the funds of the personal offices of the monarchs - the Order of Secret Affairs, the "Cabinets" of Peter I (1694-1727), Catherine II (1762-1796), Paul I (1796-1801); Office of State Secretaries, Near Office (1699-1718), Supreme Privy Council (1726-1730), Governing Senate (1711-1917), senatorial and synodal institutions.
Were they engaged in anti-government activities? In the categories of the State Archive of the Russian Empire there is documentation of the bodies of political investigation, supervision and investigation - the Preobrazhensky Prikaz (1686-1729), the Secret Office (1718-1726) and the Secret Expedition of the Senate (1762-1801), secret investigative commissions of the XIX century.
Are they merchants and industrialists? The management of industry and trade in the 17th-19th centuries, the financial policy of the Russian government were reflected in the funds of orders and collegiums (Berg-, Chambers-, Commerce-, Manufaktura-), the Main Magistrate, customs, offices and offices of the 18th century, as well as in funds of noble families who owned factories, factories and mines.
Peasants? There are funds of institutions for the management of palace, state and economic peasants, single-palaces, colonists; monasteries, characterizing, among other things, the management of monastic peasants, documents of revisions of the population of the 18th century. (which are not in the regional archives). Family and personal funds of the largest landowners, industrialists, statesmen of pre-revolutionary Russia: the Bobrinskys, Vorontsovs, Gagarins, Golitsyns, Goncharovs, Demidovs, Panins, Sheremetevs, Shuvalovs, Yusupovs, may contain not only information about the representatives of these families, but also copies of revision tales, absent in the regional archives.
The Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGAMID), as well as the State Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which until 1917 was located in St. Petersburg, joined the RGADA. I thought that if your ancestors entered the Russian Empire and left it, you should apply to St. Petersburg, but no, all this is here!
RGADA has an excellent scientific and reference apparatus, everything is quite easy to find. Most of the descriptions are in the reading room. All of them are included in the typewritten "Register of inventories" in 5 volumes, in which the characteristics of the inventories (in tabular form) are given by fund numbers. Indexes have been compiled for separate groups of funds in sheet and card forms, including an index of church institutions (who asked me about dioceses?). There is a guide that is available in major libraries and can be bought here and there, but it does not cover all collections. This guide and other published sources are described at www.rusarchives.ru/federal/rgada/nsa1.shtml.
The address of this wonderful place is -
Address: 119817, Moscow, st. Velyka Pirogovskaya, 17
Tel.: 245-83-23; Fax: 246-50-91; Chit. Hall: 245-83-25
Email: [email protected]
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday 12.00-20.00; Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00-17.30.
The first working day of each month is sanitary.
It is not necessary to go and go to RGADA, you can write them a request. The price list is on the page www.rusarchives.ru/federal/rgada/service.shtml
They discussed it on the forum of our website RGADA - go to vgd105.valuehost.ru/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=6&topic=139&start=0, there you can ask a question:
Do you know why I decided to write about RGADA at all?
Because if you suddenly decide to look at old documents in RGADA, you won’t understand anything in them - they are written by hand in disgusting handwriting. Even if you receive copies by mail in response to a question, you will not understand. And on our site a book has just been placed in full - I.S. Belyaev. A practical course in the study of ancient Russian cursive writing for reading manuscripts of the 15th-18th centuries. With photographs of the charter and semi-charter, the alphabet, individual words and entire manuscripts, headpieces and capital colored letters, ligature and Belarusian writing. Moscow, Synodal printing house, 1907. So, with the help of this book you can understand everything! The website address is www..htm. Even if you are fantastically lazy, look at the third chapter - there are examples of writing all the letters. Write the surname you are researching, you will at least recognize your surname in the documents, copy the necessary pages and then deal with what you found at home.
Yes, there are many important things. chronology, for example.
The Central State Archive of Ancient Acts of the USSR is the largest in our country repository of documents of the GAF of the USSR on the history of Russia during the period of feudalism. The basis of its documentary base is made up of materials from historical archives established before the revolution: the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice, the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Archive of the Russian Empire, the Moscow Branch of the General Archive of the Ministry of the Imperial Court, the Survey Office Archive, as well as archives of personal origin, monasteries and church institutions that became the property of the state after the Great October Socialist Revolution (Appendix 1).
The materials of these archives became part of various sections of the Unified State Archival Fund, formed in accordance with the decree of June 1, 1918 "On the reorganization and centralization of archives in the RSFSR", signed by V. I. Lenin. By 1925, these materials were concentrated in the Ancient Storage of the Moscow branch of the Central Historical Archive of the RSFSR (with the exception of materials from the Central Land Survey Archive, which existed independently until 1939). In 1931 Ancient storage
In the picture: the building of the MAMU (now the TsGADA of the USSR) on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street in Moscow.
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It was renamed the State Archive of the Feudal-Serfdom Era, which, according to the Regulations on the GAF of the USSR approved in 1941, received modern name- Central State Archive of Ancient Acts, now TsGADA USSR.
Currently, the archive contains more than 3.3 million items. ridge These are documents created in the period from the 11th century. BC 20th century The archive includes materials from institutions of higher, central and local government of the Russian state and the Russian Empire, which existed before the administrative reforms of the XVIII century. XIX centuries, boundary institutions of the XVIII - present. XX centuries, documents of statesmen and public figures, figures of science and culture of Russia, estates, family and monastery archives, collections of written monuments of history, culture and life of the Russian and other peoples of the USSR, related to the period of feudalism, domestic and foreign early printed and rare editions of the XV - XIX centuries.
The oldest of the documents of the TsGADA of the USSR, covering a centuries-old period, is "Savin's book" - an ancient Slavonic manuscript of the 11th century. from the library of the Moscow Synodal Printing House.
A unique collection of monuments of act writing, the earliest of which dates back to the 13th century, is the State Ancient Repository of Charters and Manuscripts, which includes fragments of the Moscow Grand Duke's Archive, archives of other great and specific principalities, as well as the so-called. Royal archive of the XVI century. In the Old Storage there are lists of legislative monuments of the 11th-17th centuries: "Russian Truth", the judicial code of Ivan III 1497 (the only copy known to science), the judicial code of Ivan the Terrible 1550, as well as the original "Cathedral Code" 1649.
Materials of institutions of higher and central administration Russia XVII- XVIII centuries. are represented by the funds of the Local, Ambassadorial, Preobrazhensky, Discharge orders, Vladimir, Galician, Novgorod, Ustyug and other quarters, the "offices" of Peter I, Elizabeth Petrovna, Catherine II, the Near Office, the Senate, the Supreme Privy Council, Berg-, Manufaktura-, Chambers and Justice Colleges, etc.
Archives of local institutions of the XVI - XVIII centuries. represented by the funds of clerks, discharge, labial huts, provincial, provincial and district (voivodship) offices, customs, serf offices, offices for managing single-palaces, economic, palace peasants, as well as state forests and crafts.
Among the monastery funds are deposited from the end of the XV century. materials of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Solovetsky, Spaso-Evfimiev Suzdal, Yuryev Novgorod and other monasteries, with information about land ownership, economy, management of monastery peasants, construction of church buildings.
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Among the funds of personal origin are the family archives of the largest landowners, industrialists, statesmen of feudal and capitalist Russia: the Bobrinskys, Vorontsovs, Gagarins, Goncharovs, Demidovs, Panins, Stroganovs, Sheremetevs, Shuvalovs, Yusupovs, which include, along with personal and family documents, materials about their official activities, as well as archives of patrimonial and factory offices. These funds, together with materials from higher and central institutions, characterize the origin and development of capitalist relations in Russia, the state of trade and industry in the 17th-19th centuries, and the economic policy of that period.
The documents of the TsGADA USSR reflected all the diversity internal development And foreign policy Russia.
Of great value are the archive materials on the situation of the oppressed masses and their anti-feudal actions. The archive contains the main set of documents on the history of peasant wars in Russia in the 17th - 18th centuries. under the leadership of I. I. Bolotnikov, S. T. Razin, K. A. Bulavin, E. I. Pugachev, documents on urban uprisings, unrest of working people. These materials are concentrated in the cases of the Discharge (Discharge), Preobrazhensky and other orders, the Senate, the Berg Collegium, the Cabinet of Peter I, the Secret Chancellery, and the commissions of inquiry in the case of E. I. Pugachev.
The materials of the Ambassadorial, Siberian, Little Russian orders, the Senate, and the collections of the State Archives widely cover Russia's relations with foreign states, the growth of its power and international significance, close ties with the peoples that later became part of the USSR, and their history.
Versatile information about the geography of Russia, natural conditions, economic development of individual regions and settlements contains scribe, census and boundary books, revision tales, maps and survey plans of the 18th - 19th centuries, economic notes to the plans of the General Survey, descriptions of cities.
The history of the centuries-old Russian national culture and the culture of other peoples of our country is characterized by materials from the manuscript and book collections of the Moscow Palace Archive, the Armory, the Senate, the collections of the State Archive, and funds of personal origin.
The archive contains materials on foreign languages and languages of the peoples of the USSR (mainly in the funds of the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs, the State Archive and personal origin).
Archives of early printed and rare publications, formed on the basis of libraries Embassy order, the Moscow Printing House, MGAMID, MAMYU, as well as the collections of M. A. Obolensky, F. F. Mazurin, D. Ya. Samokvasov and others, includes books by Kirillov
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Seals of almost all Slavic printing houses of the 15th - 17th centuries, rare Russian editions, incunabula, rare foreign editions of the 16th - 18th centuries.
The documentary wealth of the TsGADA of the USSR was shown in full for the first time in the Guidebook, published in 1946 - 1947 (Central State Archive of Ancient Acts: Guidebook. - Part I - II, M., 1946, 1947). However, since the publication of this edition, there have been significant changes in the composition of the archive funds, and the level of their scientific development has increased.
The profile of the TsGADA of the USSR was clarified, it received the funds of some departments and expeditions of the Senate, Berg-, Kamer-, Manufaktura- and Medical Colleges, Legislative Commissions, patrimonial offices of large noble families. At the same time, the documents of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs (from the MGAMID), the files of the departments of the Senate of the 19th century were transferred from the TsGADA. and some others, funds, reflected in the specified Guide.
A lot of work has been done in the Archives to clarify the fund ownership of materials that are part of large archival complexes, and accounting data. From the list of funds were excluded, in particular, the names of fund inclusions that were previously listed (and reflected in the Guide) as independent funds.
The documentary base of the Archive is distinguished by the complexity of its composition, which is primarily explained by the peculiarities of the classification of materials and the accounting and reference apparatus in each of the archives - the predecessors of the Central State Antimonopoly Administration of the USSR. (Approximately three-quarters of the inventories of funds were compiled in pre-revolutionary archives - the predecessors of the Central State Archives of the USSR in the late 18th - early 20th centuries.
Differences in the methods of acquisition of these archives, in their composition, systems of classification and description of materials led to the heterogeneity of the funds and inventories of the State Archives, MGAMID, MAMYU, Archives of the Armory, etc. compiled mainly according to the subject-thematic principle (as a rule, without indicating the origin of documents). Thus, the MGAMID funds are mainly thematic collections of Posolsky's documents and related orders; a large part of the Archive of the Armory Chamber - a collection of dozens of column orders deposited in the process of activity, subsequently pasted document-by-document and arranged in the inventories in a general chronological order; MAMYU funds for the most part represent sets of documents of individual fund creators with inclusions of files from other institutions.
The work on the creation of a scientific reference apparatus for the funds of personal origin, monastic and local institutions, begun from the moment the archive was formed, was completed after
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The publication of the Guide 1946 - 1947. At the same time, the funds of local institutions of the 18th century. were processed mainly in the 1950s - 1960s according to the method of abbreviated description, which provides for the systematization of documents by collections, by years, and within a year - by subject-thematic headings (without disclosing the content of each storage unit).
In some of these funds, inventories have been preserved that were made in the provincial and county archives in the 2nd half. 19th century In the 1950s - 1980s, new inventories were compiled of part of the books of the Senate, as well as scribe, refusal and clerical books of the Local Order, the Estate Board and the Estate Department, the description of all undescribed parts of the funds and disparate documents accumulated in previous years was completed, an index of stock inclusions was developed to the Archives of the Armory, the fund of the Senate and its institutions.
Even in pre-revolutionary times, a part of the inventories was published - the so-called descriptions, reviews. Widely known, for example, is the Description of Documents and Papers of the MAMYU, which includes a catalog of scribes, censuses, boundary books of the Local Order, a nine-volume inventory of documents of the Discharge Order, etc. Soviet archivists continue this work. They published inventories of the Ancient Storage, columns of the Additional Department of the Discharge Order, as well as an inter-stock inventory of the Book of Moscow Orders. A valuable reference book containing information about the state and features of the inventories of documents of the Central State Anti-Corruption Directorate of the USSR is their annotated register, compiled in 1985.
All these circumstances necessitated the publication of a new guide to the Central State Anti-Corruption Directorate of the USSR. At the same time, the work carried out created the prerequisites for a more in-depth characterization of archive materials.
In this guide "The Central State Archive of Ancient Acts of the USSR" (hereinafter referred to as the Guide), its structure and method of annotating funds are fundamentally new.
In the Guide of the 1946-1947 edition, the characteristics of the funds were grouped in accordance with the latter's belonging to the pre-revolutionary historical archives. The construction of this Guide is based on the principle of grouping the characteristics of funds depending on the place of the fund-creating institution in the system public institutions Russia, the scale of its activities, the time of existence. This allows you to more consistently show the composition and content of the documents of the Central State Anti-Corruption Directorate of the USSR and their historical meaning, emphasizes the role of the archive as an organically unified repository of documents from the feudal period of Russian history, and not just the sum of materials from pre-revolutionary archives.
Features of the methodology for compiling stock characteristics
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They are determined by the complexity and diversity of the classification of materials of the TsGADA USSR. Archive funds, depending on their structure, can be divided into the following groups:
Funds consisting of documents of one founder and not having extraneous inclusions;
Funds consisting of documents of the main fund-forming institution and one or more extraneous inclusions;
Joint funds of the same type of institutions (as a rule, with a small amount of materials from each);
Joint funds, consisting of documents of several institutions, connected by subordination, continuity or community of activity;
Funds, which are entire pre-revolutionary historical archives or parts thereof;
Funds, which are thematic and other collections, formed mainly artificially in the process of storage in pre-revolutionary archives.
Such differences in the structure of archival funds determined the specific characterization of their materials.
Characteristics are compiled for funds and stock inclusions. Materials of any foreign institution that are part of this collection are considered inclusions (inclusions are not distinguished in the composition of collections).
Each characteristic consists of a name, reference data, historical reference and annotations of documents.
Compiled according to generally accepted rules, the characteristics of archival funds that do not have inclusions and collections reflect all the materials listed in the inventories of this fund.
In the characteristics of funds with inclusions, only materials related to the main fund creator are reflected. The remaining documents of the fund, i.e., fund inclusions, receive their own annotations that are included in the characteristics of the materials of each institution (each of the annotations indicates which fund and inventory this inclusion refers to).
The characteristics are given to the joint funds of institutions of the same type, within which the materials of each institution are specially annotated, with the necessary reference data.
"Funds-archives" receive characteristics for each inclusion separately, and general information about the archive and its materials are given in a brief outline of the history of the pre-revolutionary archives included in the TsGADA, which is attached to the first volume of the Guide.
In cases where the documents of one institution are part of several funds, their general characteristics, which indicates the name of the fund creator, total
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Reference data, general historical reference. The annotation of each inclusion remains individual and retains its reference data.
At the present time, the identification of stock inclusions has not been completed in all the funds of the archive. Nevertheless, the work carried out has made it possible to significantly expand the circle of fund creators, whose materials are annotated in this Guide, in comparison with the number of fund creators indicated in the first Guide. This is especially true of the orders of the 16th-17th centuries. and local institutions.
For a number of funds, mainly the collections of the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs and the State Archive, their old names have been preserved, although they have become archaic, but have firmly entered the scientific circulation.
The guide has the following structure.
The first volume contains characteristics of: the State Ancient Repository of Charters and Manuscripts, which includes the most ancient documents of the archive, the funds of the central orders of the 16th - 18th centuries, the funds ("categories") of the State Archive, which concentrated documents of particular importance for the 17th - 19th centuries. The same volume contains a scheme for the formation of the TsGADA of the USSR and short essay history of pre-revolutionary archives included in its composition.
The second volume covers the funds of institutions of higher and central government in Russia in the 18th century. and boundary materials XVIII - AD. XX centuries
The third volume includes characteristics of the funds of local institutions XVI - 1st floor. 19th century and monasteries XV - n. XX centuries
The fourth volume contains characteristics of funds of personal origin, manuscripts, book and other collections of the archive, funds of scientific societies and offices of archives - the predecessors of the TsGADA.
Each volume of the Guide has appendices: a list of archival funds in the order of account numbers indicating the number of storage units, the latest dates of materials, a list of fund inclusions; alphabetical list of stock characteristics; tables revealing the composition of the most complex funds; list of inventories of funds (in this volume - appendix 2 - 6). The bibliography for the first two volumes is placed in the second volume.
The main work on the preparation of the first volume of the Guide was carried out by E. F. Zhelokhovtseva (responsible compiler), M. V. Babich, Yu. M. Eskin.
Due to this, the number of units. ridge individual stock inclusions are indicated approximately.
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Indexes of personal names and institutions were compiled by M. V. Babich, geographical, topographic and ethnographic - by Yu. M. Eskin.
Some annotations were made by I. Yu. Airapetyan, V. Yu. Belikov, V. G. Bukhert, S. S. Ermolaev, I. L. Zhuchkova, M. P. Lukichev, A. S. Svetenko, T. B. Solovieva .
The editorial board and compilers express their deep gratitude to Zh. A. Ananyan, V. A. Artamonov, N. B. Golikova, N. F. Demidova, A. B. Kamensky, S. M. Kashtanov, S. E. Knyazkov, V. B. Kobrin, A. I. Komissarenko, Z. V. Kraiskaya, T. D. Lavrentsova, I. V. Pozdeeva, P. M. Sikharulidze, S. I. Smetanina, A. L. Stanislavsky, T. L. Filimontseva, and B.N. Flora for their help in preparing this publication.
RGADA was formed on the basis of five main pre-revolutionary historical archives of Russia:
The Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice (MAMYU), formed in 1852 by merging the Moscow historical departmental archives - the Discharge-Senate Archive (1763), the Estate Archive (1786), the Moscow State Archive of Old Cases (1782) , the Archive of the Moscow departments of the Senate and the archives of local institutions of Russia, liquidated by the reforms of the 60s. XX century;
The Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGAMID), formed in 1724 and from that period until 1832 was called the Moscow Archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs (MAKID). In 1882, the State Repository of Ancient Charters and Manuscripts became part of the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs, which since 1834 has been in the system of palace archives.
State Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (after 1917 - State Archive of the Russian Empire). It arose in 1801, separated from the St. Petersburg archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs in 1834, until 1917 it was in St. Petersburg.
Moscow branch of the General Archive of the Ministry of the Imperial Court (created in 1869 from the combined Archive of the Armory and the Archive of the Moscow Palace Office). Until 1888 it was called the Moscow Palace Archive.
5. Archive of the Land Survey Office (Land Survey Archive), created in 1768. From 1919 to 1939 - Central Survey Archive.
In 1918, the documents from these archives became part of the legal, historical and cultural section of the Unified State Archival Fund. In 1925, the above archives (except for the Central Boundary) were merged into the Ancient Storage of the Moscow branch of the Central Historical Archive of the RSFSR; the nationalized archives of the Moscow institutions of the Synod, churches and monasteries, personal and ancestral funds also came here.
In 1931, the Old Storage was transformed into the State Archive of the Feudal-Serfdom Era (GAFKE), which in 1938-1939 included the Central Survey Archive.
In 1941, GAFKE was renamed the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts (TsGADA; in 1985 - 1991 - TsGADA of the USSR).
In 1992, the archive depository was again renamed into the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA).
In 1993, RGADA was included in the list of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.
The composition of the funds.
The archive includes documents formed in the activities of the institutions of the highest and central government of the Russian state and the Russian Empire before the administrative reforms of the late 18th - early 19th centuries, as well as local government institutions of the 16th - 18th centuries, including those abolished under the administrative reform of 1775 - 1779 ..
Also in the composition of the RGADA there is an archive of survey institutions of Russia of the 17th - 20th centuries.
Documents of state and public figures, figures of science and culture of Russia until the beginning of the 19th century, historically established collections of written monuments of history, science, culture and life of the Russian and other peoples that were part of Russia are also stored here.
The archives also contain documents from the estate, family and monastic archives.
In total, the archive contains: 1371 funds, 3,310,674 cases, as well as
8 funds, 792,420 units ridge scientific and technical documentation.
