Document Complexes of the First General Population Census of the Russian Empire (1897) in Foreign Archives: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia

Abstract

To identify for the whole complex of primary data of the 1897 Census it is necessary to study archives of foreign countries that were a part of the Russian Empire in late 19th century. The article summarizes the work in searching, characterizing, and estimating information value and representativity of primary data of the 1897 Census stored in the archives of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Its sources are information systems, finding aids, and documents of the foreign archives, as well as projects using data of the 1897 Census. The main research methods are historiographical and source analysis, as well as archival heuristics methods. Considerable

Importancia de la colección personal de la biblioteca de Michael Z. Vinokouroff como recurso de investigación

“…The methodological basis of the research was the principles of historicism and scientific objectivity (Bryukhanova, 2019;Yumasheva, 2017). And also, source analysis and descriptive method were used, which made it possible to determine the information potential of the fund's documents.…”

“…Archival materials that fall into the open information space can be used to implement not only scientific, but also political, social and educational projects (Petrov & Egorova, 2020;Yumasheva, 2017). In addition, the speed with which the globalization of society is taking place today suggests that very soon the idea of creating such archives that will go beyond the boundaries of one state will be realized (Bryukhanova, 2019).…”