The Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg holds more than 6.5 million documents on the history of the Russian Empire. Its scientific reference library contains over 420 thousand volumes, including rare handwritten and old printed editions.

The Leningrad Central Historical Archive was formed in 1925 on the basis of the Leningrad branches of the sections of the Central Archive of the RSFSR, established in 1922. In 1941, after a series of transformations, the Central State Historical Archive in Leningrad (TSGIAL) was organized, since 1961 it was renamed the Central State Historical Archive of the USSR (TSGIA USSR; since 1992 - RGIA).

In 1993, the archive was included in the State Register of Especially Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.

The archive funds include 6,576,620 storage units for the period from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century; the library has more than 400 thousand volumes of rare publications, including rare handwritten and early printed books.

Here are collected relics and personal papers of Peter I, Catherine II and all Russian emperors, documents of the highest institutions of the empire, plans of cities, churches, drawings of many architectural monuments not only in Moscow and St. collections of church books of the XIII century. The RGIA stores the funds of almost all ministries and main departments that operated on the territory of the Russian Empire in the 19th - early 20th centuries, funds of scientific, cultural, educational, artistic and charitable institutions, personal materials of the most famous noble families of Russia, scientists, historians (for example, N M. Karamzin), genealogists and numismatists, as well as materials on the history of architecture and urban planning in Russia (drawings, sketches, drawings by Bazhenov, Voronikhin, Quarenghi, Montferrand, Rastrelli, Rinaldi, Rossi, Stasov, Stackenschneider, etc.). By decree of the President of the Russian Federation in 1993, the RGIA was included in the State Code of Particularly Valuable Cultural Heritage Objects of the Peoples of Russia.

The RGIA documents contain information not only on the history of the state and society, but also on the fate of individuals, families and clans. Among them are cases of elevation to the Russian nobility and hereditary honorary citizenship, numerous cases of service, etc. Genealogy sources are supplemented by a unique collection of heraldry sources. It includes 126 letters of high artistic value for the princely, count, baronial and noble dignity of the Russian Empire, the General Armorial of the noble families of the All-Russian Empire, which exists in a single copy, as well as cases on the appropriation and confirmation of the coats of arms of the Department of Heraldry of the Senate.

Previously, the RSHA was located in the complex of buildings of the Senate, the Synod and the mansion of Counts Laval. In 2005-2006, by decision of the government of the Russian Federation, a new special complex of buildings was built for the archive (Zanevsky pr., 36) - new archive buildings with a total area of ​​​​about 60 thousand square meters. The archival complex includes reading rooms, rooms with free access (exhibition and conference rooms), storage facilities with strictly limited access in the form of a brick bunker with a special air conditioning regime. There is also a historical and archival block with laboratories for restoration and microfilming. This complex meets the most modern requirements for ensuring the safety of archival documents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko took part in the opening ceremony of the new archive complex of the Russian State Historical Archives, ordered by the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

In his speech, V. Putin noted that the Russian State Historical Archive is the largest archive in Europe, related to the history of 85 countries of the world; in terms of scale and value, it is comparable to.

The new buildings of the Russian State Archives are adapted not only for storage, but also for the study of documents. According to V. Putin, the next step will be the transfer of existing historical information to new, electronic and digital media.

The Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) is the largest archive in Europe and one of the largest in the world. More than 7 million storage units were deposited in it, of which 6.5 million are documents on the history of the Russian Empire. RGIA is the object of attention of UNESCO and the property of all mankind. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 6, 1993, the RGIA is included in the state code of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.


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How Leningrad branches of the sections of the Central Archive of the RSFSR

Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA)- Federal State Archive of the Russian Federation, a particularly valuable heritage site of the peoples of the Russian Federation, the largest historical archive in Europe and one of the largest archives in the world. The archive contains documents of the highest and central bodies of state power and administration of the Russian Empire, mainly from the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries. to 1917, as well as public organizations, institutions and individuals of pre-revolutionary Russia. One of two state archives at the federal level (together with the RGA of the Navy), located in St. Petersburg.

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In 1992, the archive received its former name - the Russian State Historical Archive. In 1993, it was included in the State Code of Particularly Valuable Cultural Heritage Objects of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.

The archive is associated with a high-profile criminal case about the theft of several thousand old documents from its funds by the antiquary Vladimir Fainberg.

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Foundations of associations and institutions

The archive currently has over 6.5 million items, making it the largest historical archive in Europe. There are 1368 funds in the archive, of which: 1020 are the funds of the central and state institutions of the Russian Empire (the end of the 18th-beginning of the 20th century), 337 are funds of personal materials, 35 funds are archival collections and handwritten books, 11 are funds of scientific and technical documentation.

The archive stores the funds of almost all (with the exception of departmental: the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire and the Headquarters of the Russian Navy) the highest state institutions of Russia of the pre-revolutionary period. Among them are the materials of the State Council of Russia (1810-1917), its departments, the Main Committee on Peasant Affairs, as well as the funds of the first legislative elected body in Russia - the State Duma of the Russian Empire (1905-1917). The archive contains the funds of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (1802-1917). The RGIA contains the Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire, as well as documents from the Codification Department of the State Council and the Department of the Code of Laws of the State Chancellery.

One of the most extensive is the complex of funds from the former Archive of the Governing Senate of the Russian Empire (1711-1917). Some of the materials of his institutions, mainly the Senate commissions that existed before 1802, were transferred at various times to the RGADA, and the fund of the Special Presence for Political Affairs was transferred to the State Archives of the Russian Federation. At the same time, part of the Senate documents of the 19th century, previously kept in Moscow, was then transferred to the RGIA. They contained imperial nominal decrees, current correspondence with governors, materials of senatorial revisions of individual provinces; criminal, cassation and appeal cases for almost all categories of the population. The fund of one of the Senate departments - the Department of Heraldry (1757-1917) and the Collection of letters of commendation, diplomas and patents for ranks contain a significant set of genealogical documentation with information on awarding noble ranks and titles.

The archive also contains documents on religious and cultural history: materials of the Holy Governing Synod, the archive of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, educational documents (School Council, Educational Committee, etc.), documents on other confessions (Greek Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, Anglican) , many of which were brought from Ukraine, from Belarus and Lithuania (from the 15th century to 1839); materials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Justice, Trade and Industry, Posts and Telegraphs, Public Education, Finance ...

The RGIA stores all the materials of the Own Imperial Chancellery, with the exception of the funds of the III department transferred to the GARF, as well as materials of public, socio-political and socio-economic organizations: banks, steamship companies, railway, trade and construction associations, the Imperial Academy of Arts, Free Economic society, Russian Technical, Historical, Imperial Philanthropic and other societies.

Personal funds

The RGIA keeps the personal funds of prominent statesmen and public figures, scientists, thinkers, inventors, composers, writers, artists and others. The personal materials of M. M. Speransky, S. Yu. Witte, P. A. Stolypin, K. P. Pobedonostsev, orientalist Vasily Grigoriev, historians M. I. Rostovtsev, B. V. Farmakovsky, N. M. Karamzin, M. P. Pogodin, S. S. Tatishchev, numismatist B. V. Köhne, heraldist V. K. Lukomsky and others, as well as the author's drawings and drawings of Vasily Bazhenov, Andrey Voronikhin, Giacomo Quarenghi, Montferrand, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Antonio Rinaldi, Stackenschneider and many others.

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“That’s what we saw from the mountain, how you asked the arrow through the puddles,” said the esaul, narrowing his shining eyes.
Petya really wanted to laugh, but he saw that everyone was holding back from laughing. He quickly turned his eyes from the face of Tikhon to the face of the esaul and Denisov, not understanding what all this meant.
“You can’t imagine arcs,” Denisov said, coughing angrily. “Why didn’t you bring peg?”
Tikhon began to scratch his back with one hand, his head with the other, and suddenly his whole face stretched into a radiant stupid smile, which revealed the lack of a tooth (for which he was nicknamed Shcherbaty). Denisov smiled, and Petya burst into merry laughter, which was joined by Tikhon himself.
“Yes, quite wrong,” said Tikhon. - The clothes are poor on him, where to take him then. Yes, and rude, your honor. Why, he says, I myself am the son of Anaral, I won’t go, he says.
- What a beast! Denisov said. - I need to ask...
“Yes, I asked him,” said Tikhon. - He says: I don't know you well. There are many of ours, he says, but all are bad; only, says, one name. Ahnete, he says, it’s good, you’ll take everyone, ”Tikhon concluded, looking cheerfully and resolutely into Denisov’s eyes.
“Here I’ll pour in a hundred gog” yachs, and you will be the arc “like a cog” chit, ”Denisov said sternly.
“But what’s to be angry about,” said Tikhon, “well, I didn’t see your French? Here, let it darken, I’ll give you whatever tab you want, at least I’ll bring three.
“Well, let’s go,” said Denisov, and he rode all the way to the guardhouse, frowning angrily and in silence.
Tikhon came in from behind, and Petya heard the Cossacks laughing with him and at him about some kind of boots that he had thrown into the bush.
When that laughter that had taken possession of him passed at Tikhon's words and smile, and Petya realized for a moment that this Tikhon had killed a man, he felt embarrassed. He looked back at the captive drummer, and something struck him in the heart. But this awkwardness lasted only for a moment. He felt the need to raise his head higher, to cheer up and to question the esaul with a significant air about tomorrow's enterprise, in order not to be unworthy of the society in which he was.
The officer sent met Denisov on the road with the news that Dolokhov himself would arrive immediately and that everything was fine on his part.
Denisov suddenly cheered up and called Petya to him.
“Well, tell me about yourself,” he said.

On leaving Moscow, Petya, leaving his relatives, joined his regiment and soon after that was taken as an orderly to the general who commanded a large detachment. From the time he was promoted to officer, and especially from entering the active army, where he participated in the battle of Vyazemsky, Petya was in a constantly happily excited state of joy that he was big, and in a constantly enthusiastic haste not to miss any chance of real heroism. . He was very happy with what he saw and experienced in the army, but at the same time it seemed to him that where he was not there, the most real, heroic things were now happening. And he was in a hurry to catch up to where he was not.
When on October 21 his general expressed a desire to send someone to Denisov's detachment, Petya so pitifully asked to be sent that the general could not refuse. But, sending him, the general, remembering Petya's insane act in the battle of Vyazemsky, where Petya, instead of going by road to where he was sent, rode into the chain under the fire of the French and fired two shots from his pistol there - sending him, the general he specifically forbade Petya to participate in any of Denisov's actions. From this, Petya blushed and became confused when Denisov asked if he could stay. Before leaving for the edge of the forest, Petya thought that he must, strictly fulfilling his duty, immediately return. But when he saw the French, saw Tikhon, learned that they would certainly attack at night, he, with the speed of young people moving from one look to another, decided with himself that his general, whom he still respected very much, was rubbish, German, that Denisov is a hero, and the esaul is a hero, and that Tikhon is a hero, and that he would be ashamed to leave them in difficult times.
It was already getting dark when Denisov, Petya and the esaul drove up to the guardhouse. In the semi-darkness one could see horses in saddles, Cossacks, hussars, adjusting huts in a clearing and (so that the French would not see the smoke) making a reddening fire in a forest ravine. In the hallway of a small hut, a Cossack, rolling up his sleeves, was chopping lamb. In the hut itself there were three officers from Denisov's party, setting up a table out of the door. Petya took off his wet clothes to dry and immediately began to assist the officers in setting up the dining table.
Ten minutes later, the table was ready, covered with a napkin. There was vodka on the table, rum in a flask, white bread and roast lamb with salt.
Sitting at the table with the officers and tearing with his hands, over which the lard flowed, fat fragrant mutton, Petya was in an enthusiastic childish state of tender love for all people and, as a result, confidence in the same love of other people for himself.
“So what do you think, Vasily Fyodorovich,” he turned to Denisov, “it’s all right that I’ll stay with you for a day?” - And, without waiting for an answer, he answered himself: - After all, I was ordered to find out, well, I will find out ... Only you will let me into the very ... into the main one. I don't need awards... But I want... - Petya clenched his teeth and looked around, twitching his head up and waving his arm.
- In the most important ... - repeated Denisov, smiling.
“Just, please, give me a command at all, so that I command,” Petya continued, “well, what is it worth to you? Oh, do you have a knife? - he turned to the officer who wanted to cut off the mutton. And he handed over his folding knife.
The officer praised the knife.
- Take it, please. I have a lot of them…” Petya said, blushing. - Fathers! I completely forgot,” he suddenly exclaimed. - I have wonderful raisins, you know, like this, without stones. We have a new marketer - and such wonderful things. I bought ten pounds. I'm used to anything sweet. Do you want? .. - And Petya ran into the hall to his Cossack, brought sacks, in which there were five pounds of raisins. Eat, gentlemen, eat.
- Do you need a coffee pot? he turned to the esaul. - I bought from our marketer, wonderful! He has wonderful things. And he is very honest. This is the main thing. I will definitely send you. And maybe also, flints have come out of yours, they have been trimmed - after all, this happens. I took with me, I have here ... - he pointed to the sacks - a hundred flints. I bought very cheap. Take, please, as much as you need, or that's all ... - And suddenly, frightened that he was lying, Petya stopped and blushed.
He began to remember if he had done any other stupid things. And, sorting through the memories of the present day, the memory of the French drummer presented itself to him. “It’s great for us, but what about him? Where do you share it? Did they feed him? Didn't you offend?" he thought. But having noticed that he had lied about the flints, he was now afraid.
“You could ask,” he thought, “but they will say: the boy himself took pity on the boy. I'll show them tomorrow what a boy I am! Will you be embarrassed if I ask? thought Petya. “Well, it doesn’t matter!” - and immediately, blushing and looking frightened at the officers, whether there would be mockery in their faces, he said:
- Can I call this boy that was taken prisoner? give him something to eat…maybe…
“Yes, miserable boy,” said Denisov, apparently not finding anything to be ashamed of in this reminder. - Call him here. Vincent Bosse is his name. Call.
"I'll call," said Petya.
- Call, call. Pitiful boy, - repeated Denisov.
Petya was standing at the door when Denisov said this. Petya crawled between the officers and came close to Denisov.
“Let me kiss you, my dear,” he said. - Oh, how wonderful! how good! - And, kissing Denisov, he ran into the yard.
- Bosses! Vincent! Petya shouted, stopping at the door.
- Who do you want, sir? said a voice from the darkness. Petya answered that the boy was a Frenchman, who was taken today.
- A! spring? - said the Cossack.
His name Vincent has already been changed: the Cossacks - in Spring, and the peasants and soldiers - in Visenya. In both alterations, this reminder of spring converged with the idea of ​​a young boy.
“He was warming himself by the fire. Hey Visenya! Visenya! Spring! voices and laughter echoed in the darkness.
“And the boy is smart,” said the hussar, who was standing next to Petya. We fed him today. Passion was hungry!
Footsteps were heard in the darkness and, barefoot slapping through the mud, the drummer approached the door.
- Ah, c "est vous!" - said Petya. - Voulez vous manger? N "ayez pas peur, on ne vous fera pas de mal," he added, timidly and affectionately touching his hand. – Entrez, entrez. [Oh, it's you! Want to eat? Don't worry, they won't do anything to you. Sign in, sign in.]

08.2011.

SPb. branch of the Central Bank (building on Zanevsky pr.)

Computing center LGK State Bank of the USSR

1986 - architects Brovkin N. F. Rubina E. E., Kostyukova E. M., engineer. Karpina N.I.

Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA)

Zanevsky pr., 36

2004-2005 - Architectural Workshop (AM) of E. Yu. Merkuriev,

ch. arch. Merkuriev Evgeny Yu.

architects Raiko S., Miodrag Ts., Kurenkov A. G., with the participation of L. G. Kostomarova, Ali Bardi,

Merkurieva Yu. E., Abramova I. S., Mirzaeva A. Ya.

Customer: Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Directorate for Construction and Reconstruction of Facilities in the North-Western Federal District"

Office of the President of the Russian Federation

General contractor: Moscow CJSC "Engineering company" Transstroy ",

whose functions in St. Petersburg are performed by CJSC "Logos"

The building of the RGI Archive includes a bank building, the construction of which began in Soviet times. This building occupies the territory along Zanevsky pr., the corner of Zanevsky and travel along the river. Okkervil and the half of the corps closest to Zanevsky along Okkervil. True, this building was re-lined during the reconstruction. The fence (i.e. part of the fence) was also built at the bank.

About the building from [No. 129, pp. 553-554], from an article about the architect N.V. Brovkin:

"... a building completed after the death of the architect (N.F. Brovkin died on 10/02/1986 - approx. Almak) his colleagues, architects E.E. Rubina and E.M. Kostyukova and engineer N.I. Karpina. We are talking about a laconic, restrained and at the same time expressive in terms of plastic, with a masterfully designed planning structure of the building at 36 Zanevsky Prospekt. This building was built as a computer center for the LGK of the State Bank of the USSR and a cash department. Now (With the article for the book was written in 1999 - approx. Almak) Here is the Interregional Informatization Center. The building is surrounded by a magnificent artistic fence..." (almak)

The building was built as the Computing Center of the LGK of the State Bank of the USSR.

Construction completed after 1986

Reconstruction and construction of the Russian State Archives - Zanevsky pr., 36

Project 2003-2005 arch. E. Yu. Merkuriev, S. Raiko, Ts. Miodrag, A. G. Kurenkov, with the participation of L. G. Kostomarova, Ali Bardi, Yu. E. Merkuriev, I. S. Abramova, A. Ya. Mirzaev, engineers -ry V. N. Epifanov, A. M. Teryokhina, V. D. Evdokimova, I. F. Valkov, to-ry A. A. Severov, V. A. Ogarkova, G. A. Lizun, V. V . Ivanov)

"06.2003. - The Russian State Historical Archive received land for the construction of a new archive building at Utkin pr., 6. This site and building belong to the St. Petersburg branch of the Central Bank at 36 Zanevsky pr. has been moving out since 1999, and today most of it has been empty and is gradually decaying.In terms of its design parameters, the building is absolutely not adapted to the placement of archives: a cabinet system, a large number of windows and thin walls, finishing corridors with combustible synthetic materials, and most importantly, ceilings, not And, of course, there is no way to drive the funds and departments of the RGIA, which currently occupy 37,000 square meters, into an area of ​​about 12,000 square meters. only administrative departments, reading rooms and the library of the Russian State Historical Institute will be located, while a new, specially equipped library will be built for storage ny and equipped body. Judging by the area and configuration of the site owned by the Central Bank, it is possible to build a new building only by dismantling to the ground the courtyard outbuilding, in which money was stored and technical services were located.

The main work on the construction of the complex of buildings of the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) was completed in December 2004.

The buildings for the RGIA are mainly made of concrete and in the complex form a closed triangular perimeter, including an eight-story storage building, a round reading room building and elongated buildings for accommodating laboratories and other archival services. Now the builders have started finishing the premises.

The area of ​​the future unique archival complex is about 60 thousand square meters. meters, the final completion of construction is planned for the end of 2005. The total cost of construction will be 3.2 billion rubles.

(site Stroyka 12/17/2004)

The customer of the work is the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the general contractor for the construction is the Moscow-based ZAO Engineering Company Transstroy, whose functions in St. Petersburg are performed by ZAO Logos.

The archival complex includes reading rooms, rooms with free access (exhibition halls, conference hall, administration), storage facilities with strictly limited access in the form of a brick bunker with a special air conditioning regime. There is also a historical and archival block with laboratories for restoration and microfilming. (REGNUM-Baltika 09.12.2004)

The presentation of the new building of the Russian State Historical Archive to the world archival community took place on June 29, 2007. According to the press service of the Federal Archival Agency (FAA), the presentation is held within the framework of the meeting of the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Archives, which is attended by representatives of the archival services of France, Austria, Germany, as well as Japan and China.
The transfer of the RGIA funds from the Senate and Synod buildings to Zanevsky Prospekt began in February and ended in November 2006. At the same time, the work done can be considered a truly feat, since the RGIA is the largest archive in Russia and one of the largest archives in the world, its funds contain more than 6 .5 million archival files on the history of Russia in the 18th - early 20th centuries. At the same time, about 500 people took part in the transfer of funds.

Page on the site “Archives of Russia”: http://www.rusarchives.ru/federal/rgia/index.shtml

The Russian State Historical Archive is the largest historical archive (there are about 6.5 million items in the archive funds), the main archive repository of documents of the central state institutions of the Russian Empire of the late 18th - early 20th centuries.

The archive was formed in 1925 on the basis of the Leningrad subdivisions of several sections of the Central Archive of the RSFSR. In 1929 - 1934. it was called the Leningrad Branch of the Central Historical Archive. In 1934, LOTSIA was divided into 4 archives, incl. Archive of the national economy and Archive of internal politics, culture and life. From these two archives, the Central State Historical Archive in Leningrad was formed in 1941 (since 1961 - TsGIA of the USSR, in 1992 - the Russian State Historical Archive).

Until 2006, the archive was located in the building of the Senate and the Synod. In 2006 - 2007 all archive documents were moved to a new building at 36 Zanevsky Prospekt.

The funds of the Russian State Historical Archive in relation to genealogical research are most in demand when studying noble genealogies and biographies of civil service officials. In this case, the RGIA is usually the main archive for research, materials from regional archives are involved as additional ones.

I will characterize the main funds of the RGIA, which are most in demand in genealogical research:

  • The Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate (f. 1343) is a fund that stores the main array of documents for the study of noble genealogies. In addition, the structure includes cases of personal and hereditary honorary citizens. I will list the key documents of the Department of Heraldry:
    • Armorial department with files on provincial, city and noble coats of arms.
    • Cases of attribution to the nobility (separately for 1813-1894 and 1894-1917) are the main source on the history of noble families. In these cases, to classify any family members, evidence of belonging to the nobility (documents on land ownership, formulary lists, etc.) and confirmation of kinship (metric certificates) are provided.
    • Noble genealogical books and lists of co-ranked from different provinces, which are a list of clans ranked among the nobility of any province.
    • Cases of the audit commissions of the nobility's deputy assemblies, created in the 1840s. to check all cases of the nobility in the provinces.
    • Cases of hereditary and personal honorary citizens.
  • Official lists of officials of the civil department (f. 1349). This fund is a collection of formulary (i.e. service) lists of officials that were sent to the Department of Heraldry (until 1846) and to the Inspectorate Department of the 1st Department of His Own Imperial Majesty's Chancellery (in 1846 - 1917). This collection also includes official lists of destroyed personal files.