In the first half of the 19th century a specific practice developed in the Orenburg borderland. According to it, foreign slaves (we use this term to designate slaves who weren’t Russian Empire’s subjects) were to be granted freedom as well as a choice whether to return home or convert to Orthodoxy and become Russian subjects. However, in the materials of the Joint State Archive of Orenburg Region we have found several deviations from this practice.
The manuscript is devoted to the study of the structure of Masonic organizations in the Russian Empire in the XVIII century. The material of the work includes memoir sources, published documents (interrogation materials), as well as pre-revolutionary, foreign and modern historiography. The research is based on such methods of historical research as historical-systematic, classification, synthesis and content analysis. In conclusion, the authors note that the structure of Russian Freemasonry of the XVIII century included three types of Masonic lodges: — The «English» system of Masonic lodges.
Maritime Educational Institutions in Kherson Gubernia
Reform on the Abolition of Serfdom
Russian aviation industry
Polish-Moldavian borderland in the XVII century
Ideas of Eastern Europe of the Napoleonic Wars
Project of the Baturinsky University
Vocational Education in the Kherson Governorate
Jews in the Russian empire
Ottoman waqf on North Black Sea region
The Phenomenon of Panteleimon Kulish
Agricultural public organizations of Ukrainian provinces
Palace Coup in the Russian Empire
Ukrainian museography
Vilna and Warsaw military districts of the Russian Empire
Family Reading of Nobles
Old Believers in the Russian Empire
Agricultural societies and the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Poland
Collective literary image of an employee created by A.P. Chekhov
The Nobility of «Ukrainian Provinces»
Olha Taratuta — the Phenomenon of Women in the Revolutionary Era
The second Minister of Railway Transport of the Russian Empire
Russia after the Crimean War
Women in the Army and in the War
Epidemiology in the Russian Empire
Military aspect in the work of selected Russian painters
