N.F. Levin, S.L. Sviridova. Clergy records, confessional lists and registry books of churches and graveyards of the city of Velikiye Luki and its district in the funds of the State Archives of the Pskov Region. Magazine "Pskov Archives", No. 3.

From the new guide to the State Archive of the Pskov Region (GAPO), published in 2011, it became known that these documents are stored not only in 22 inventories of fund No. 39 of the Pskov Spiritual Consistory, to which the researchers turned first of all. They are also in other archives. There are especially many such funds for churches in the city of Velikiye Luki and its district. In particular, they are available in fund No. 128 of the “Velikoluksky Spiritual Board” and in the funds of the deans of the four districts of this district. Only two deans of the Nevelsk district have preserved such funds. Only for a quarter of the churches of the Pskov diocese, namely for 112 churches, separate funds have been created in GAPO, and 48 of them are Velikiye Luki. There are 75 descriptions in total.

The need to consolidate these cases into separate lists by county is obvious. In the proposed lists for Velikiye Luki and its district, cases for individual churches of the city and churchyards of the district are highlighted, and the rest, consolidated cases, are arranged in chronological order.

When preparing the lists, the names of some cases were clarified, and it was established which specific temple it belonged to.

On familysearch.org and in the Pskov archive, parish registers of Velikoluksky district for the years 1746 - 1865 inclusive.
Where can I look for county registries after 1865?
According to a GAPO employee, it is unknown when they disappeared, during the Great Patriotic War or some other time.

Many documents from the churches of Velikoluksky district, which were stored in the Rzhev branch of the State Archives of the Tver Region, disappeared during the Great Patriotic War.

Revision tales for 1850 villages and hamlets of the county:

GAPO, f.58, op.1, d.1656 - exclusively rural secular societies.

GAPO, f.58, op.1, d.1659 - Landowner peasants. The case begins with the villages of Alexander Arsenievich Zherebtsov, ends with the announcement of Varvara Alekseevna Lavrova. Advertisement in house 1659, a
GAPO, f.58, op.1, d.1660 - the audits themselves by V.A. Lavrova are already here. And to the villages of A.S. Obolyaninov.
GAPO, f.58, op.1, d.1658 - from the possessions of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Tulubiev to captain Maria Yanovskaya. Plus at the end there is also an audit of the street people living in Velikiye Luki.

Reports of the Commissioner for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Velikoluksk Region.
In the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Pskov Region (GANIPO) in fund No. 5473 (inventory 1, file 1859) there are reports of the Commissioner for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Velikoluksk Region F. Uglov for the fourth quarter of 1951, as well as for the first, second and third quarters of 1952 .

The State Archive of the Pskov Region (GAPO) contains documents signed by the Commissioner for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Velikoluksk Region A. Kunits and acting. Commissioner for the Velikoluksk Region Comrade. Rudakova. These documents date back to the end of 1956 - beginning of 1957, among them are acts of transfer of churches to the Pskov diocese. These documents are stored in fund No. 1776 (inventory 1, files 63, 64).

Pskov province was reorganized under Paul the First in 1796 from the Pskov governorship, created as a result of the administrative reform of Catherine the Second in 1777 from lands that were once under the jurisdiction of the Pskov Republic and, partially, as part of the Shelonskaya Pyatina of the Novgorod Land (XVI century). At the beginning of the 18th century. (1708) these lands became part of the Ingermanland province (in 1710 it was renamed the St. Petersburg province). In 1719, in connection with the introduction of a new administrative-territorial division of the provinces of the Russian Empire into provinces, a province of the same name was formed on the site of the future Pskov province (with the district cities of Pskov, Gdov, Izborsk, etc.). In 1727, a number of lands that were part of the St. Petersburg province (including the Pskov province) were removed from its composition and transferred to the newly formed Novgorod province. After the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland) in 1772, the Pskov province was formed as part of the Russian Empire, which in 1776 was divided, in turn, into two provinces - Pskov and Polotsk. Finally, in 1777, the Pskov governorship was created.

In the Pskov province in whole or in part
There are the following maps and sources:
(except for those indicated on the main page of the general
all-Russian atlases, where this province may also be)

1st and 2nd layout of land surveying (1778-1797)
Land survey map - non-topographic (without indicating latitudes and longitudes), hand-drawn map of the late 18th century (after the redistribution of borders in 1775-78) on a scale of 1 inch = 2 versts 1cm=840m or 1 inch = 1 verst 1 cm = 420 m. Some of the maps date back to the period of Catherine II 1775-96, Paul I, having come to power, changed the boundaries of counties within the provinces (which, in turn, Alexander I returned to its original place, but with some changes), while some of the maps from the General Land Survey fund survived for only one period.
The maps are color, very detailed, broken down by county. The purpose of the map is to show the boundaries of land plots with location reference. In the Pskov province, all two-layout layouts are usually two-color (see sample)

Military 3-layout of the Pskov province of the 1880s.
Military three-verstka - detailed military map of the Pskov province of topographic surveys of the 1880s. Scale - in 1 cm 1260 m.

Lists of populated places in the Pskov province in 1885 (according to information from 1872-1877).
This is a universal reference publication containing the following information:
- type of settlement (village, hamlet, vlad. or kaz.);
- location of the settlement (in relation to the nearest highway, camp, well, pond, stream, river or river);
- the number of households in a settlement and its population (the number of men and women separately);
- distance from the district town and camp apartment (camp center) in versts;
- presence of a church, chapel, mill, fairs, etc.

The list below shows cities - county centers. On the page of the selected city there is a list of parishes that were part of the county.
You can follow the arrow links next to the name of the parish and church:

The space of the Pskov diocese was not always the same. At first it was within the five nearest cities and counties: Pskov, Izborsky, Ostrovsky, Opochetsky and Gdovsky. Upon the establishment of the Pskov province by Peter I, Zavolochye, Krasnoye, Gorodishche, Pustorzhevsky (Novorzhevsky) district and Kobylinsk were assigned. In the 60s of the 18th century, Velikoluksky district was added to the Pskov diocese. With the time of transformation of the Pskov province into a province from 1773 and then from 1777 from the Novgorod diocese to the viceroyalty, the cities of Kholm and Porkhov with counties were listed in the Pskov diocese, and from the Belorussian diocese - Sebezh, Polotsk, Nevel, Dvinsk and Vitebsk. In 1781, Gdovsky district was separated into the St. Petersburg diocese, and since 1798, the Belarusian cities were transferred back to the Belarusian diocese. From the Smolensk diocese in 1787, Toropets with the district was assigned to the Pskov diocese. For some time Livonia and Courland were under the spiritual authority of the Pskov archpastors until the establishment of the Riga diocese in 1850. From 1849 to 1858 The Archbishop of Riga simultaneously ruled the Pskov diocese. The bishops who occupied the Pskov See since 1858 received the name “Pskov and Porkhov”. At the beginning of the 20th century, the boundaries of the territory of the diocese coincided with the administrative boundaries of the Pskov province.

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• Microfilms with files from Fund 39 on Yandex disk.
• (lists of documents, for example, parish registers, by parish, sorted by year).
• (Pskov region and all of Russia).
• (topic on the IOP forum).

Lost documents:

During the Great Patriotic War, documents from the archives of the Pskov region were not evacuated; some of them were irretrievably lost during the bombing and shelling of the city during the fighting (during the war, two trucks with documents were hit by bombs). During the occupation of Pskov by the Germans, the archive was looted and partially destroyed.

After the liberation of Pskov from the Nazi invaders, the city archive resumed its activities. Archive staff examined all the surviving buildings of the city to search for surviving archival documents. The main part of them was found in the basement of a residential building on Kalinina Street, 17, in a state of severe contamination and scattering.

Where are genealogical documents stored?

In addition to various archives: Pskov (GAPO), Novgorod (GANO), Tver (GATO), St. Petersburg (TsGIA St. Petersburg), Estonian Historical Archive,
documents from churches in the Pskov province are kept
- in the archives of the Pskov Regional Civil Registry Office;
- in local history museums (for example, in the Porkhov Local History Museum, in the Pskov Museum).

Archive of the Civil Registry Office of the Pskov Region, department of processing, storage and issuance of documents:

tel. 66-49-95
Pskov, st. Rotnaya, 34
Email: [email protected]

By phone and in person they provide information about the availability of metrics for the period and region.

Many metric books disappeared during the Great Patriotic War.

Parish books for 1916-1918. transferred to the Pskov archive from the regional registry office at the beginning of 2018.
They are not formalized in a separate inventory of fund 39, but are allocated to a separate fund 867 with the name “Collection of metric books”

There are some records left in the registry office for 1918-1924, but there are few of them.

From the instructions for civil registry offices: “Registration books collected from second copies of civil status records are destroyed.”

Local history museums:

The parish books and confessional paintings, which are stored in regional museums, are parish copies, because after the war and later, museum staff visited churches and identified material values.

Metric books. Officially, Orthodox metric books in Russia were kept no earlier than 1722 and until 1918.

The metric books were kept in two copies:
- one was sent for storage to the consistory archive,
- the second remained in the temple.

Consistory copy, included metric notebooks of birth, marriage, death for one year for all parishes of one county or city, reached 1000-1200 sheets.

Parish copy included records of births, marriages and deaths only one parish for several years. The volume of the parish registry was most often about 200-250 sheets.

Parish books, confessional paintings and clergy registers can be found in the archival funds:

Spiritual consistories,
- county spiritual boards,
- in separate funds of churches,
- in separate archival funds (for example, in the Pskov regional archive, parish books for 1916-1918, transferred from the regional registry office at the beginning of 2018, were allocated to a separate fund 867 “Collection of parish books”).

In addition to metric books, confessional paintings and for studying the history of peasants, there is also such an interesting documentary source as redemption cases. Redemption files are stored in the St. Petersburg State Historical Archive.

The Pskov Regional Archive (GAPO) contains Charter Charters (on the purchase of land).

Since August 2018, the Pskov Regional Archive has introduced a fee for copying documents using the user’s technical means.

• maps of the Pskov province.
• 1st and 2nd layout of land surveying (1778-1797); military 3-layout of the Pskov province of the 1880s. -
• Map of Pskov province
• Visual map of European Russia for 1903, compiled by M.I. Tomasik. File size - 16.2 MB.
• Pskov province (fragment of the previous map). Used in the design of this page, zip archive.
• Cards
• map of the Pskov region.
• indicated on the interactive map of the North-West.
• (topic on the IOP forum).
• German geographic site that publishes