The Presidential Library: New acquisitions

18 January 2013

The holdings of the Presidential library have been enriched with digital copies of handwritten documents of the local self-government of the Tobolsk province of the XVIII century – the Tyumen Provincial Office provided by the State Archive of the Tyumen region.

The Tyumen Provincial Office (an ordered or going hut) was the executive body of the Provincial Office. The ordered hut, headed by a clerk sent from Moscow, made all things for managing the city and county. Ordered huts served as a guide domestic policy. Ordered huts were a room of "presence", where the governor as an authorized representative of the central government hosted the population on military, administrative, economic and domestic issues, exercised a judicial power. The apparatus of the ordered hut consisted of temporary and permanent parts. The ordered hut kept sovereign literacy and printing, credit and debit books and paintings of various taxes and levies, fees themselves (the sovereign's treasury). After the introduction of institutions of the provinces by Catherine II in 1775, governors and their offices were abolished.

Proposed documents are journals and reports of the Tyumen Provincial Office  (May — August 1748, September 1751, November — December, 1752, January —July, 1756 , September, 1757, May —July, 1761, January —April, 1763, April—June, 1763, April —August, 1764 , October, 1764, September —December, 1764, July — December, 1765), journals and reports of its meetings (January —May, 1754, May —August, 1754, August —December, 1754, from 1754 to 1756, November —December, 1756, November, 1756 —February, 1759, March —November, 1760, August —December, 1761, July —September, 1762, February —December, 1763, June —December, 1763, November —December, 1763, January—April, 1764, the early 1765, January — February, 1766, May —June, 1766, for June 8, 1766, June —December, 1766, January —December, 1767, March, 1767, January —December, 1769, March, 1770), as well as extracts from the journals of different people asking for analysis of court, controversial cases (1763-1764 , the early 1764, April —December, 1764).

The preparation of new materials continues.