Novgorod occupation archive - a collection of documents of office work of the Novgorod order hut during the Swedish occupation of Novgorod 1611-1617. It is the most coherent collection of state documents of administrative practice of Moscow Russia until the XVII century and consists of about 30 thousand sheets.
It is stored in the State Archive of Sweden in Stockholm .
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Composition
- 3 notes
- 4 References
History
After the signing of the Vyborg Peace Treaty on February 20, 1609 between Sweden and Russia to assist the government of Vasily Shuisky, Sweden provided a corps of mercenaries under the command of Jacob Delagardi to fight supporters of False Dmitry II and Polish interventionists. After the overthrow of Shuisky, Swedish mercenaries, under the pretext of non-fulfillment by the Russians of the terms of the treaty, besieged Novgorod and a number of other northern Russian territories.
From 1611 to 1617 continued the Swedish occupation of Novgorod and Novgorod land, which ended with the signing of the Stolbovsky Peace Treaty . In 1617, during the evacuation of the Swedish occupation administration after the signing of the peace treaty by the Swedish governor, Jacob Delagardi instructed to collect the documents of the Novgorod order hut to collect and send to Ingermanland on Swedish territory.
At the end of the XVII century, the collection of documents was transferred to the State Archive of Sweden in Stockholm, where it is still stored in the Ockupationsarkivet från Novgorod fund.
Composition
The archive consists of two parts, which differ in their nature and origin.
The first part (Serie I) consists of 141 books and contains documents drawn up in various orders of Novgorod during the period of occupation. These are mainly white censuses of documents to be sent to the Moscow archives. They are represented by books of various institutions (the Money Court, customs, the court yard, taverns), as well as scribal, census, sentinel, individual, search, subsistence, payment, dinner, ground, bonded, pit, bathhouse and other books.
The second part (Serie II) has 368 scrolls of various sizes. In this part, merchant records, servitude bondage, vacation and court cases, interrogative speeches, petitions, memoirs, personal records, land awards cases, letters from the nobles with a report on duty, lists of confiscated property of defectors are collected. This reflects the daily correspondence of the people with the central Novgorod authorities.
Notes
Links
- Dmitriev Z.V., Celine A.A. About the publication of Novgorod sentinel and search books 1611-1616
- Kovalenko Gennady. Veliky Novgorod 1611-1617. Between Moscow and Stockholm (based on materials from the State Archive of Sweden)
- Accounts of an Occupied City. Catalog of the Novgorod Occupation Archives 1611-1617. Serie i
- Accounts of an Occupied City. Catalog of the Novgorod Occupation Archives 1611-1617. Serie ii
- Ockupationsarkivet från Novgorod (website of the State Archive of Sweden, fund with the Novgorod occupation archive)