Maps of the Pskov province. Old maps of the Pskov province Schubert map of the Pskov province

Name				Collective sheet	example	download
PGM Opochensky district	2c	1792g	291.6mb
PGM Pechersk district	1c	1790s	87.3mb
PGM Porkhovsky district	2c	1790s	165.2mb
PGM Velikolutsk district	2c		83.3mb
PGM Novorzhevsk uyezd	2c	1790s	46.3mb
PGM Ostrovsky district	1c	1790s	107.3mb
PGM Pskov Uyezd	2c	1790s	80.4mb
PGM Pskov Uyezd	1c	1 790s	75.99mb
PGM Toropetsky Uyezd	2c	1790s	100.2mb
PGM Kholmsky Uyezd	2c		114.1mb
Geog-stat dictionary Velikoluts. county		1884
Schubert map	3c		376.2mb
Lists of settlements			328,4mb

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Historical information on the province

Pskov province - an administrative unit of the Russian Empire. The provincial city was the city of Pskov. It existed from 1796 to 1924, after which it became part of the newly formed Leningrad Region. By area in 1914 it occupied 44211.2 km2 (38846.5 square versts). The population according to the 1897 census is 1,122,317 people.

History

In 1708, the territory of the future Pskov province became part of the Ingermanland province as the Pskov province. The county towns of the province were: Gdov, Izborsk, Ostrov, Opochka, Pskov, Kholmsky Posad, Zavolochye, Pustorzhev and Kobylsk.

In 1727, the Novgorod province was separated from the St. Petersburg province and consisted of 5 provinces (Novgorod, Pskov, Velikolutskaya, Tver and Belozerskaya). In 1772 (after the first partition of Poland, from the newly annexed lands) the Pskov province was created (the center of the province was the city of Opochka), it included 2 provinces of the Novgorod province, Pskov and Velikolutsk, and the new Dvina (Polish Livonia) and Polotsk from the lands of the former Vitebsk voivodeship

In 1772, the Pskov province was renamed into the 2nd Belorussian province with a center in Opochka (since 1776, the center of the province was moved to Polotsk), which, in addition to Pskov, also included the provinces: Velikolutsk, Vitebsk, Dinaburg, Dvina and Polotsk.

In 1777, the Pskov governorate was created, consisting of 10 counties, in 1796 it was transformed into the Pskov province. At that time, the province consisted of 6 counties: Pskov, Velikolutsky, Opochetsky, Ostrovsky, Porkhovsky and Toropetsky. In 1802, two more districts were allocated from them: Kholmsky and Novorzhevsky.

Under Soviet rule

In April 1918, eight northwestern provinces - Petrograd, Novgorod, Pskov, Olonets, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Cherepovets and Severodvinsk - were united into the Union of Communes of the Northern Region, which, already in 1919, was abolished. Also, after the October Revolution, the Pskov province underwent a number of territorial changes, so in 1920 part of the western counties went to Estonia, and in 1922 the southern counties came under the control of the Vitebsk province. In 1927, the Pskov province was liquidated and became part of the Leningrad region.

Administrative division

Velikie Luki district
Novorzhevsk uyezd
Opochsky county
Porkhovsky district
Ostrovsky district
Pskov district
Toropetsky district
Kholmsky district

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The list below lists the cities - county centers. On the page of the selected city, there is a list of parishes included in the county.
The links-arrows next to the name of the parish and temple can be found:

The area 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. After the establishment of the Pskov province by Peter I, Zavolochye, Krasnoe, Gorodishche, Pustorzhevsky (Novorzhevsky) district and Kobylinsk were assigned. In the 60s of the 18th century, the Velikie Luki district was assigned to the Pskov diocese. Over time, the transformation of the Pskov province into a province from 1773 and then from 1777 from the Novgorod diocese to the governorship to Pskov, the cities of Kholm and Porkhov with districts were listed, and from the Belorussian one - Sebezh, Polotsk, Nevel, Dvinsk and Vitebsk. In 1781, the Gdovsk district was separated to the St. Petersburg diocese, and from 1798 the Belarusian cities were also transferred 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 archpastors of Pskov 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 held the Pskov cathedra since 1858 were named “Pskov and Porkhovsky”. 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 the files of the fund 39 on Yandex-disk.
(lists of documents, for example, registers of births, by receipts, sorted by year).
(Pskov region and all of Russia).
(topic on the IOP forum).

Lost documents:

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

After the liberation of the city of Pskov from the German fascist invaders, the city archive resumed its activity. Archive staff examined all the surviving buildings of the city to find the surviving archival documents. Most of them were found in the basement of a residential building at 17 Kalinin Street in a state of heavy pollution and scattering.

Where are genealogical documents kept:

In addition to various archives: Pskov (GAPO), Novgorod (GANO), Tverskoy (GATO), Petersburg (TsGIA S-Pb), Estonian Historical Archive,
documents of the temples of the Pskov province are kept
- in the archive of the Pskov regional registry office;
- in local history museums (for example, in the Porkhov Museum of Local Lore, in the Pskov Museum).

Archive of the 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 give information about the availability of metrics for the period and region.

Many registers of births disappeared during the Great Patriotic War.

Metric books for 1916-1918 transferred to the Pskov archive from the regional registry office in early 2018.
They are not issued as a separate inventory of fund 39, but are allocated to a separate fund 867 with the name "Collection of metric books"

Some records for 1918-1924 remained in the registry office, but there are few of them.

From the instructions for the registry offices: "Act books collected from the second copies of civil status records are destroyed."

Local history museums:

The registers of birth and confessions, which are kept in the district museums, are parish specimens, because after the war and later, museum staff traveled to churches and identified material values.

Metric books. Officially, Orthodox metric books in Russia were kept not earlier than 1722 and up to 1918.

Registers of births were kept in two copies:
- one was sent to storage in the archives of the consistory,
- the second stayed in the temple.

Consistory copy, including metric notebooks of birth, marriage, death in 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 in several years. The volume of the parish register was usually about 200-250 sheets.

Registers of birth, confessions and clerical statements 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, metric books for 1916-1918, transferred from the regional registry office in early 2018, were allocated 867 "Collection of metric books" in a separate fund).

In addition to registers of births, confessions and for studying the history of peasants, there is also such an interesting documentary source as redemption deeds. The redemption files are kept in the St. Petersburg State Historical Archive.

In the Pskov Regional Archives (GAPO) there are Charters (on the redemption of land).

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

maps of the Pskov province.
1st and 2nd imposition of land surveying (1778-1797); military 3-page layout of the Pskov province of the 1880s. -
Pskov province map
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.
marked on the interactive map of the North-West.
(topic on the IOP forum).
German geographic site on which is laid out

Military topographic map of F.F. Schubert 3 versts in 1 inch.

Sheets highlighted in color are in my collection

Also, in addition to the presented list of sheets, there is Moscow province map 2c in inch.

Collected sheet of Schubert's 3-mile map

/ picture is clickable /

Several versions of sheets are available. There are also sheets scanned on a large format scanner.

New, fully scanned map sheets are highlighted in red.

For the convenience of downloading sheets of Schubert's map 3c, sheets are loaded in rows. Select the series you are interested in and follow the link.

List of sheets of the Schubert map 3c

Row I	Sheet 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Row II	Sheet 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Row III	Sheet 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Row IV	Sheet 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Row V	Sheet 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Row VI	Sheet 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Row VII	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Row VIII	Sheet1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10
Row IX	Sheet1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 10, 11
Row X	11 , 12, 13, 17
Row XI	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 24
Row XII	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24
Row XIII	10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Row XIV	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19 , 20 , 21, 22, 23, 24
Row XV	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20 , 21 , 22 , 23, 24
Row XVI	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 21 , 22, 23, 24 25
Row XVII	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 , 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Row XVIII	Sheet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17 , 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Row XIX	Sheet 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 , 19, 20 , 21 , 22, 23
Row XX	Sheet 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 , 21 , 22, 23
Row XXI	Sheet 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 , 23
Row XXII	Sheet 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Row XXIII	Sheet 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Row XXIV	Sheet 5 , 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Row XXV	Sheet 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Row XXVI	Sheet 4 , 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19 , 20, 21, 22
Row XXVII	Sheet 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Row XXVIII	Sheet 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 , 18 , 19, 20 , 21, 22
Row XXIX	Sheet 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Row XXX	Sheet 6 , 7, 8, 9 , 10 , 11, 12 13, 14, 15
Row XXXI	Sheet 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13
Row XXXII	Sheet 6, 7, 8, 9 , 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Row XXXIII	Sheet 6, 7 , 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Row XXXIV	Sheet 7, 8 , 12, 13, 14
Row XXXV	Sheet 12, 13

Schubert map 10c

Color-coded sheets are in stock.

List of sheets of the Schubert map 10c

Sheet IV	Belozersk, Lake Onega
Sheet V
Sheet VIII	Lake Onega, Karelia
Sheet IX	Petrozavodsk, Kargopol
Sheet X	Velsk, Shenkursk, Arkhangelsk province
Sheet XII	Revel, Hapsal
Sheet XIII	Vyborg, St. Petersburg. Saint Petersburg province
Sheet XIV	Cherepovets, Kirillov, Belozersk. Novgorod province
Sheet XV	Vologda, Kologriv, Totma. Vologda and Kostroma provinces
Sheet XVIII	Porkhov. Pskov province
Sheet XIX	Vyshny Volochek, Vesyegonsk, Mologa, Uglich. Tver and Yaroslavl provinces
Sheet XX	Yaroslavl, Kostroma. Yaroslavl and Kostroma provinces
Sheet XXIII	Vitebsk. Vitebsk and Smolensk Governorates
Sheet XXIV	Moscow, Tver. Moscow and Tver provinces
Sheet XXV	Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod. Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod provinces
Sheet XXVI	Kazan, Simbirsk. Kazan and Simbmr provinces
Sheet XXVII	Grodno, Suwalki, Polotsk
Sheet XXVIII	Vilno, Minsk
Sheet XXXI	Ryazan. Ryazan and Tambov provinces
Sheet XXXII	Penza. Penza and Simbirsk provinces
Sheet XXXIII	Warsaw, Lublin
Sheet XXXV	Chernigov Chernigov and Mogilev provinces
Sheet XXXVII	Voronezh, Tambov. Voronezh and Tambov provinces
Sheet XXXVIII	Saratov. Saratov province
Sheet XXXIX	Krakow. Kingdom of Poland
Sheet XLI	Kiev. Kiev, Chernigov, Poltava provinces
Sheet XLII	Kharkov, Poltava, Oboyan. Kharkov and Kursk provinces
Sheet XLIII	Pavlovsk. Voronezh province and the Land of the Don Army
Sheet XLIV	Kamyshin. Saratov province
XLV sheet	Kamyanets Podolsky, Yampol
Sheet XLVI	Uman, Kryvyi Rih. Kherson province
Sheet XLVII	Raisins, Yekaterinoslavl, Nikopol. Ekaterinoslavskaya province.
Sheet XLVIII	Novocherkassk. Lands of the Don Army
XLIX sheet	Tsaritsin. Astrakhan province
Sheet LI	Kherson. Kherson province
Sheet LII	Melitopol. Azov sea
Sheet LIII	Rostov. Lands of the Don Army
Leaf LIV	Elista. Astrakhan province
Sheet Y	Astrakhan. Astrakhan province

Depot cards

At the end of the 18th century, a radical transformation of the cartographic business in Russia took place, which laid the foundation for an independent military topographic service. Emperor Paul 1, shortly after accession to the throne, drew particular attention to the lack of good maps in Russia and on November 13, 1796 issued a decree on the transfer of all maps of the General Staff to the disposal of General G.G. Kushelev andon the formation of His Imperial Majesty the Drawing Room, from which in August 1797 His Majesty's Own Map Depot was formed. This event made it possible to bring order to the publication of maps and made the Map Depot a centralized state archive of cartographic works in order to preserve state and military secrets. At the Depot, a special engraving unit was established, and in 1800 the Geographical Department was added to it. On February 28, 1812, the Map Depot was renamed the Military Topographic Depot, subordinate to the War Ministry. Since 1816, the Military Topographic Depot was taken over by the General Staff of His Imperial Majesty. In terms of its tasks and organization, the Military Topographic Depot was primarily a cartographic institution. There was no department of topographic surveys, and the necessary number of officers from the army were seconded for the production of the latter.

After the end of the war with Napoleon 1, much more attention was paid to field topographic and geodetic work. Military operations quite definitely revealed a lack of maps, and the new methods of warfare at that time raised the issue of the need for large-scale maps, which, in turn, required a good and sufficiently dense network of geodetic control points and accurate topographic surveys. In 1816, the triangulation of the Vilnius province began, which laid the foundation for the development of triangulations in the country, and since 1819 systematic topographic surveys have been organized on a rigorous scientific basis. However, the fulfillment of geodetic and topographic work by a small number of officers of the quartermaster unit, who had many other official duties in addition, did not allow starting the systematic and systematic mapping of the country. In addition, the cost of maintaining the surveyor officers seemed too onerous. Therefore, the question of creating a special organization, staffed from persons of non-nobility origin, arose sharply. Such an organization, which existed along with the Military Topographic Depot, was formed in 1822 and became known as the Corps of Military Topographers. Its composition was recruited from the most capable pupils of military orphanages - cantonists, sons of soldiers who belonged to the military department in the then serf Russia from birth. To train the personnel of the Corps of Military Topographers, the Military Topographic School was created in the same year. The Corps of Military Surveyors, established at the General Staff of His Imperial Majesty, became a special organization for performing geodetic works, topographic surveys and training a large number of highly qualified surveyors.

Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert

The activities of the famous Russian geodesist and cartographer F.F. Schubert, its founder and first director. Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert (1789-1865) was the eldest of the children and the only son of the outstanding astronomer Academician Fyodor Ivanovich Schubert (1758-1825). Until the age of eleven, he was raised at home, with special attention paid to mathematics and the study of languages. During this period F.F. Schubert read a lot of books from his home library, as well as from the library of the Academy of Sciences, which was in charge of his father. In 1800 F.F. Schubert was assigned to the Peter and Paul School, which was then renamed into a school, without finishing which, in June 1803, at the age of only 14, at the request of his father, he was transferred to the General Staff as a column leader. Quartermaster General P.K. Sukhtelen, a close acquaintance of Fyodor Fedorovich's father, instilled in the young man, who dreamed of naval service, a great love for topographic and geodesic business. In 1804 F.F. Schubert was sent on two astronomical missions, for the successful execution of the first of them he was promoted to second lieutenant. In the spring of 1805 he took part in a scientific expedition to Siberia under the leadership of his father, and in the summer of 1806 he was again engaged in astronomical work in Narva and Revel. From October 1806 to February 1819 F.F. Schubert was in the active army, taking part in hostilities against the French, Swedes and Turks. During the battle of Preussisch-Eylau in 1807, he was seriously wounded in the chest and left arm and almost died during the assault on Ruschuk. In 1819 F.F. Schubert was appointed head of the 3rd department of the Military Topographic Depot of the General Staff, and in 1820 he became head of triangulation and topographic survey of the Petersburg province and in the same year received the rank of Major General. In 1822 F.F. Schubert develops a draft regulation on the Corps of Military Surveyors and soon becomes the first director of the newly established Corps. After 3 years, he was appointed manager, and from 1832 - director (until 1843) of the Military Topographic Depot of the General Staff and a member of the Council of the Academy of the General Staff. In addition to these positions, F.F. Schubert from 1827 to 1837 was also the head of the Hydrographic Depot of the Main Naval Staff of His Imperial Majesty. Fedor Fedorovich successfully combined the management of these institutions with a number of other equally responsible duties. He supervises extensive trigonometric and topographic work in a number of provinces, organizes the publication of "Notes of the Military Topographic Depot" and "Notes of the Hydrographic Depot"; compiles and publishes the "Guide for calculating trigonometric surveying and the work of the Military Topographic Depot", which served as the main manual for topographers for several decades. On June 20, 1827, FF Schubert was elected an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and in 1831 he was promoted to lieutenant general for excellence in service. The cartographic works of Fedor Fedorovich are of great importance, especially the ten-verst special map of the Western part of Russia published by him on 60 sheets, known as "Schubert's Maps", as well as his works devoted to the study of the type and size of the Earth. In 1845 F.F. Schubert becomes General of Infantry, and the following year he is appointed director of the Military Scientific Committee of the General Staff, which he directed until its abolition in 1859. With such an abundance of responsible posts, F.F. Schubert not only coped well with the responsibilities assigned to him, but also introduced a lot of new things into the activities of each institution in which he had to work, therefore, his contribution to the development of the national military topographic service was very significant. and the authority in the scientific world is very great. Fyodor Fedorovich devoted his free time from public service to numismatics (in 1857 he published a major work on this issue). He was fluent in four languages, well versed in music and painting, was a versatile, hardworking and cultured person.

The name of General Schubert is also associated with the creation of a topographic map of the Moscow province, which was engraved at the Military Topographic Depot in 1860. As noted above, since 1816 in Russia, huge work began on the laying of triangulations and the production of topographic surveys based on a rigorous scientific basis. In 1820, F.F. Schubert began his extensive triangulation work. In the period from 1833 to 1839, under his leadership, the triangulation of the Moscow province was carried out, which was completely completed only by 1841. The big drawback of F.F. Schubert's triangulation work was that he did not pursue the goal of obtaining such a high accuracy, which was characteristic of the triangulations of K.I. Tenner and V.Ya. Struve, who at that time supervised similar works in Russia. FF Schubert attached a purely practical significance to these works - to provide support only for current topographic surveys, since, being the director of the Military Topographic Depot, he tried to get maps for the largest possible territory of the country. In addition, in his triangulations F.F. Schubert did not pay due attention to determining the heights of points, which was acutely felt when the lengths of the measured bases were brought to the sea surface. However, these shortcomings of General Schubert's triangulation work were more than offset by the high quality of instrumental topographic surveys carried out under his supervision. The rules for filming have undergone various modifications over time. The general provisions, valid for most cases, were as follows. Trigonometric points served as the basis for breaking down the geometric network. Only the most important terrain objects were filmed instrumentally - big roads, rivers, and provincial borders. For this purpose, the serif method was widely used; in forest spaces it was allowed to use compass. The main content of the map was drawn with the help of an eye. In the process of shooting, the relief was depicted as horizontals indicating the angular magnitude of the slopes of the terrain, and only the contours of the peaks and thalweg were instrumentally applied. The relief was drawn in the office setting with strokes in the Lehmann system.
Topographic instrumental surveys in the Moscow province under the direction of F.F. Schubert were produced in the years 1838-1839. At this time, only the space in the vicinity of Moscow was filmed. Filming was carried out on a scale of 200 fathoms per inch. The requirements that Fedor Fedorovich made to the performers of field work were very high. Suffice it to say that F.F. Schubert strictly forbade the use of compass, since it could not give the accuracy that could be achieved by shooting forest roads with the help of alidade. Subsequently, based on the materials of these surveys, in 1848 a topographic map of the environs of Moscow on a scale of 1 verst per inch was published on 6 sheets. After quite a long time, the shooting of the Moscow province was continued. In the years 1852-1853, they were produced under the direction of Major Generals Fitinghof and Rennenkampf and were carried out on a scale of 500 fathoms per inch.

Printing technology

Topographic surveys in the Moscow province were carried out by the forces of the Corps of Military Topographers, but we can hardly now accurately determine the direct performers of the field work, since their names are not on the map of 1860. But on each of the 40 sheets we can read below the names of the engravers of the Military Topographic Depot who prepared this map for publication. The fragment of this map, presented to your attention, includes four incomplete sheets, each of which was worked on by 6-7 people. It is interesting that among the latter there were two free engravers invited from abroad: Yegor Eglov and Heinrich Bornmiller. These artists taught our engravers the best European methods of engraving and took a direct part in the work ", for which, in 1864, the Sovereign Emperor Graciously Deigned to receive silver medals to wear on the ribbon of the Order of St. Stanislaus, with the inscription" for diligence. "

The original topographic map of the Moscow province of 1860 is an imprint from an engraving on copper on 40 sheets + a composite sheet made in one paint. The borders of the province and counties are raised by hand with red watercolor paint. The map is compiled in a trapezoidal pseudocylindrical multifaceted projection of Müfling on a scale of 1: 84,000, or, translated into the Russian system of measures, 2 versts per inch. When compiling the map, materials from topographic surveys were used, made in 1852-1853, but it should be noted that the surveys of 1838-1839 were also used as the basis for creating this map for those sheets that cover the territory of Moscow and its environs. The content of the map is very detailed. Particular attention is drawn to the high skill of the engravers, thanks to which all elements of the map are perfectly readable. The relief is superbly engraved, especially the ravine network: the smallest spurs are drawn, which can simply be omitted on modern topographic maps of a similar scale.

A large number of different objects are signed on the map, which makes it possible to use it as a valuable source of information on toponymy, since many hydronyms are partially lost today - they cannot be found on any large-scale topographic map. Even now, 140 years later, with the help of this document, one can confidently navigate the countryside. It is not surprising that in Soviet times this card was classified as secret.

Military topographic map of F.F. Schubert 3 versts

N.F. Levin, S.L. Sviridov. Clearing records, confessions and registers of churches and churchyards in Velikiye Luki and its district in the funds of the State Archives of the Pskov Region. The journal "Pskov Archives", No. 3.

From the new guide to the State Archives 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, which researchers turned to first of all. They are also in other funds of the archive. There are especially many such funds for the temples of the city of Velikiye Luki and its district. In particular, they are available in fund No. 128 of the Velikie Luki Spiritual Board and in the funds of the deaneries of the four districts of this county. Only two deans of the Nevelsky district have survived such funds. For only a quarter of the churches of the Pskov diocese, namely for 112 churches, GAPO has created separate funds, 48 of which are from Velikie Luki. A total of 75 inventories.

The need to put these cases in separate lists by county is obvious. In the proposed lists for Velikie Luki and its uezd, cases are highlighted for individual churches of the city and graveyards of the uyezd, and the rest, summary cases are arranged in chronological order.

When preparing the lists, the names of some cases were clarified, it was established to which particular temple it belongs.

On familysearch.org and in the Pskov archives, the birth registers of the Velikie Luki district for 1746 - 1865 inclusive.
Where to look for county registers after 1865?
According to a GAPO employee, it is not known when they disappeared, during the Great Patriotic War, or sometime else.

Many documents of the churches of the Velikoluksky district, which were kept in the Rzhevsk branch of the State Archives of the Tver region, disappeared during the Great Patriotic War.

Revision tales for 1850 villages and villages of the county:

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

GAPO, f.58, op.1, d.1659 - Landowners' peasants. The case begins with the villages of Alexander Arsenievich Zherebtsov, ends with the announcement of Varvara Alekseevna Lavrova. Announcement in house 1659, a
GAPO, f.58, op.1, d.1660 - the revisions 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 Alexandrovich Tulubiev to the captain Maria Yanovskaya. Plus, at the end, there is also an audit of the courtyard people living in Velikiye Luki.

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

In the State Archives of the Pskov Region (GAPO) there are documents signed by the Commissioner for the ROC in the Velikie Luki Region A. Kunitsa and acting Commissioner for the Velikie Luki region, Comrade Rudakov. These documents date back to the end of 1956 - the beginning of 1957, among them are the acts of the transfer of churches to the Pskov diocese. These documents are kept in fund number 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 the lands that were once under the jurisdiction of the Pskov Republic and, in part, 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 Commonwealth (Poland) in 1772, the Pskov province was formed as part of the Russian Empire, in 1776 it 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 the general ones indicated on the main page
all-Russian atlases, where this province may also be)

1st and 2nd imposition of land surveying (1778-1797)
Land surveying map - non-topographic (without specifying 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 1inch = 1 verst 1cm = 420m. Some of the maps belong to the period of Catherine II 1775-96, Paul I, having come to power, changed the borders of counties within the provinces (which, in turn, Alexander I returned to its former place, but with some changes), while some of the maps of the General Land Survey Fund survived only for one period.
The maps are colored, very detailed, divided by counties. The purpose of the map is to show the boundaries of land plots with reference to the terrain. In the Pskov province, all two-type imposition is usually two-color (see sample)

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

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