Documents of the Kalmyk Affairs Commission as a Source for the Study of 19th-Century Kalmykia’s Records Keeping and Management Procedures: One Petition by the Kalmyk Nobleman E. Ts. Kichikov Requesting a Permission to Wear the Bronze Medal Analyzed
https://doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2022-63-5-1126-1135
Abstract
Introduction. The issues pertaining to records keeping and management in 19th-century Russia’s government agencies have been well studied. However, there are no fundamental scientific works covering the phenomena in Kalmykia. The paper analyzes activities by the Astrakhan Kalmyk Affairs Commission for the actual document flow procedures and types of documents to have resulted from the Commission’s work. The review procedure of a petition filed by landlord E. Ts. Kichikov and dealing with the bronze medal awarded to the Russian nobility and merchants in memory of the Patriotic War of 1812 — and the Kalmyk nobility’s relevance to the mentioned category — arouses particular interest. Goals. The article aims to introduce some archival documents contained in Collection И-2 ‘Kalmyk Affairs Commission’, examine the execution procedure for a document identified as ‘register’, and thus trace document review procedures in administrative bodies of prerevolutionary Russia and Kalmykia. Results. The insight into the composition of archival documents (by types) created during activities of the Astrakhan Kalmyk Affairs Commission makes it possible to study the actual records keeping and management procedures in one ethnic periphery of Russia, as well as to consider relevance of the Kalmyk nobility to the Russian one.
Keywords
Kalmyk Affairs Commission,
records keeping and management,
register,
protocol,
document flow,
E. Ts. Kichikov,
bronze medal,
nobility
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by government subsidy, project no. АААА-А19-119090590086-0 ‘National Information Resources in Scientific and Cultural Space’.
About the Author
Larisa B. Mandzhikova
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (8, Ilishkin St., 358000 Elista, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sc. (History), Research Associate
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Mandzhikova L.B. Documents of the Kalmyk Affairs Commission as a Source for the Study of 19th-Century Kalmykia’s Records Keeping and Management Procedures: One Petition by the Kalmyk Nobleman E. Ts. Kichikov Requesting a Permission to Wear the Bronze Medal Analyzed. Oriental Studies. 2022;15(5):1126-1135. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2022-63-5-1126-1135
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