File 1819 [waiting for a proper title]

Embassy in Constantinople (Russian Empire)

File 1819 [waiting for a proper title]

Held by Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI)

Identity area

Reference	RU-AVPRI/180/File 1819
Title	File 1819 [waiting for a proper title]
Dates	1874
Dates Start	1874
Dates End	1874
Level of description	File

Context area

Repository	Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI)
Name of creator(s)	Embassy of the Russian Empire in Constantinople (PRIK)

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Sources

http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/file-1819-waiting-for-a-proper-title?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Embassy in Constantinople (Russian Empire)

Identity area

Reference	RU-AVPRI/180
Title	Embassy in Constantinople (Russian Empire)
Covering dates	1800-1914
Dates Start	1800
Dates End	1800
Level of description	Fonds
Extend and medium	Global extent of the fonds: 12519 units; 25 selected files, 234 described items

Context area

Repository	Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI)
Name of creator(s)	Embassy of the Russian Empire in Constantinople (PRIK)

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Description

The collection contains the following materials: tsars’ rescripts, relations from Envoys in Constantinople, correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Ecclesiastic Mission (since 1867 – Embassy), correspondence between the Mission and Ottoman authorities, diplomatic corps in Constantinople, Russian consular offices in the Ottoman Empire (including Jerusalem); correspondence with Russian envoys in other countries, messages on ecclesiastic matters, on Russian property in the Ottoman Empire, on the Russian-Turkish wars, on peace treaties, on the situation in the Balkans, on the police of great states in the Ottoman Empire, international conferences; directives from the Embassy in Constantinople to Russian consulates on the territory of the Ottoman Empire; correspondence with private persons.
The collection also includes thematic files of correspondence between Ambassadors and the Consulate in Jerusalem over several years.
Besides, there are many thematic files on various events in Jerusalem and Palestine.

The selected items are (mainly) documents from the Russian Consulate in Jerusalem, which records had been plundered and lost throughout several wars.

Accruals

The fonds is closed.

Conditions of access and use

Conditions governing access	Subject to the authorization of Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI)
Finding aids	Inventory n°517/2

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Publication notes

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.

Catalogue references area

Rules or conventions	International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Date of the catalogue	- December 2016, 1st mission (focus on 1860-1880): 25 selected files, 237 described items - June-December 2017, 2nd mission (focus on 1881-1914):
Archivist's notes	Author(s) : Irina Mironenko-Marenkova, Historian, Translator, Publishing House “Indrik” (Moscow) and Kirill Vakh, General director of the Scientific Publishing Center Indrik (Moscow).
Sources	http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/embassy-in-constantinople-russian-empire?sf_culture=en

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