Archiwalia na temat skasowanych klasztorów w zbiorach państwowych archiwów w Kijowie i Żytomierzu na Ukrainie
Archive documents concerning dissolved monasteries in the state archives in Kiev and Zhytomyr in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The sources and material for the study of the history of Catholic monasteries in Podolia, Volhynia and the Kiev region, dissolved throughout the 19th century by the Russian government, are greatly dispersed. Documents of interest to the project can be found in several state archives in Ukraine. The biggest collections are kept in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kiev (Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ) and the State District Archives in Kiev (Державний архів Київської області) and Zhytomyr (Державний архів Житомирської області). In the article the author presents the results of a survey of these archive holdings, pointing to the most interesting documents. He has managed to make a detailed inventory of several archive units – associated with dissolutions of monasteries (including the 1832 dissolution) of greatest importance to the project, to analyse a dozen or so files documenting the dissolutions of the various monasteries (of the Franciscan Observants (Bernardines) in Dubno, the Franciscans in Mezhyrich, the Discalced Carmelites in Berdychiv and Kamyanets-Podilsky, or the Capuchins in Brusyliv, Khodorkiv, Starokostiantyniv and Vinnytsia), as well as to collect a lot of material dealing with the fate of friars from the dissolved monasteries and to indicate fonds in which interesting documents might be found.

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