Документы секретного делопроизводства Совета Астраханского калмыцкого управления (1836–1848 гг.)

Abstract

Introduction. In the course of the activities of the Council of the Astrakhan Kalmyk Administration, which carried out the administrative management of Kalmykia in the period from 1836 to 1848, the documents were created for general office work and for secret ones as well. In the archival fund I-3 “Council of the Astrakhan Kalmyk Administration” of the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia, three files containing “secret cases” have been preserved; their study will make it possible to analyze and determine the nature of the issues considered in secret records management. The purpose of the article is to study archival documents classified as “secret” related to fund I-3 “Council of the Astrakhan Kalmyk Administration”, to explore the peculiarities of conducting secret office work in pre-revolutionary Kalmykia as well as to introduce newly identified archival documents into scientific circulation. Results. Documents created during the activities of the Kalmyk Administration Council and containing “secret” information are unique sources for studying the issues of organizing work with documents of a secret nature in one of the outskirts of pre-revolutionary Russia.