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Copy from a copy, which was released in 1973. See PDF file in documents directory |
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The interview was taken by Pavel Bernshtam by telephone 1/06/2003 |
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The interview was taken by Pavel Bernshtam by telephone at 4/06/2003 |
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Interview was taken at 6.06.2003 by Bernshtam (Mironchuk) Tamara |
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was taken by Pavel Bernshtam 23/07/2003 |
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Интервью с Наумом олденбергом провел Павел eрнштам 16/08/2003 |
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The organization of Vsia Rossiia is described in the article "Russian Business Directories" by Harry D. Boonin, found in Avotaynu, Volume VI, Number 4 (Winter 1990), pages 23-32. The 1903 edition of Vsia Rossiia has a name index that refers the reader to the appropriate column number in the business listings. The guberniia are listed alphabetically. For each town, the town officials are listed. Virtually none of these names are Jewish and they are not included in this translation. The district town (uyezd capital city) listings then appear, followed by the other uezds in the guberniia. The occupations are listed alphabetically under the broad headings "Fabriki i Zabody" ("Factories and Mills") and "Torgovo-Promyshlennnyia Prelpr" ("Trade-Industrial Enterprises"). The Minsk listings occupy 12 pages in this telephone book sized volume. Each entry in Vsia Rossiia begins with the surname, in capital letters. This is followed by the given name which may or may not be abbreviated, and then the patronymic (father's given name) which is always abbreviated. A street address follows in the case of the district towns (uyezd capital cities); for the other towns in the uezd (district), the name of the town and volost is given. (A volost is a rural district composed of the union of several villages. Typically a volost had from 300 to 2000 inhabitants. It is similar to a township in the United States). Population figures and other statistics are given in the directory. In 1897 the Minsk Gubernia had a population of 2,156,120, a number presumably derived from the All-Empire census of that year. 108,240 births, 54,918 deaths, and 18,608 marriages occurred. These numbers show how difficult it will be to locate a vital record when the event is said to have taken place in "Minsk". A map of the guberniia with the distance scale calibrated in versts precedes the name listings. The Minsk Guberniia measured approximately 150 versts from north to south and 100 versts from east to west. A verst is equal to about 0.6 miles. The New York Public Library has an original paper copy of the 1903 edition of Vsia Rossiia that has yellowed, crumbling, brittle pages and is too fragile to photocopy. The Dodd Archive at the University of Connecticut in Storrs owns an original copy of the 1895 edition of Vsia Rossiia. This copy is in near perfect condition with a map of Russia embossed in gold on the cover. The librarians are understandably reluctant to allow extensive photography or copying of this volume as well. UConns copy of Vsia Rossiia was obtained from V. V. Baratonevsky, Russian Book Library, 43 Hanaway Street, London. The 1895 edition is less useful for genealogical research than the later editions since given names are often abbreviated and patronymics are not given. The Library of Congress owns microfilm copies of all the known editions of Vsia Rossiia published in 1895, 1899, 1903, and 1911. It is not clear if Vsia Rossiia was published every year. The 1911 edition is in substantially better condition than the 1903 edition and lends itself much more readily to study and translation. |
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General Information about the Duma and Duma Voter Lists Revolutionary strikes, following Russia's defeat in the war with Japan (1905), forced Tsar Nicholas II to institute the Russian Parliament, the Duma. It was the first Russian experience with democratic elections. Eligibility to vote was based on age (24 and older), sex (male), payment of taxes, property ownership, guild and professional membership, and some other criteria. The lists of eligible voters have been compiled by the administrators of the uezds from different sources: records in kaznacheistvo (financial offices), municipal governments, apartment registries, etc. Each uezd provided the same core information: the surname and the given name, but some uezds provided more information, like address, age, etc. The published voter lists were sorted alphabetically by first letter of last name. The lists included the Jews and other ethnic groups. Most of the listed non-Jews were landowners, government employees and Russian Orthodox clergy. There were four tsarist-era Dumas: the First Duma in 1906, the Second Duma in 1907, the Third Duma met from September 1907 to June 1912, and the Fourth Duma from November 1912 to October 1917. The JewishGen Ukraine SIG was able to acquire copies of the voter lists for all twelve uezds of Kiev gubernia, although not all lists were complete. This database is an extraction of 32,330 entries from the 1906 and 1907 voter lists compiled in preparation for the elections of First, Second and Third Dumas. They record the names and information about men who were eligible to vote. |
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Altshuler Leib and Hava marriage |
Bernshtam Iosif birth |
Rahil Bernshtam birth |
Bernshtam Kalman birth |
Bernshtam Vulf Sara Altshuler marriage |
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