Archiwum kościoła św. Michała Archanioła w Michaliszkach (Białoruś) – los kolekcji na tle wydarzeń historycznych
ARCHIVES OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL’S CHURCH IN MІKHALІSHKІ (BELARUS) – THE FATE OF THE COLLECTION AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF HISTORICAL EVENTS

Summary/Abstract: In an institutional sense, there are no parish archives in Belarus acting as independent institutions that perform the function of collecting historical documentation, storing it in an appropriate manner and making it available to researchers. This is due to a number of factors: the suppression of monasteries and closure of churches in the 19th century, the several waves of nationalization of church property, and the persecution in the 20th century. Therefore, the discovery of a collection of documents in a church in the village of Mіkhalіshkі, which survived despite historical sociopolitical events, although not in its entirety, can be regarded as a unique event.In this article, an archive is understood as a collection of documents related to the history and activities of a church, parish and/or monastery and kept in the church. According to the preliminary arrangement and inventory created, the archive includes 41 folders, most of which consist of a single document (e.g., a record book or inventory). The article analyses the evolution of the documentary composition of the archive, characterizes the groups of available documents and determines their information potential

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