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.
Soviet Ukraine
The Phenomenon of Panteleimon Kulish
Freistaat Danzig and Saarland
Political Processes with Soldiers in Czechoslovakia
Legal status of employees in the USSR
Penitentiary establishments in Right-bank Ukraine
The mental basis of the historical memory of the Ukrainian people
The ancient Poland state system in scientific discuscussions
Old Believers’ Re-Emigration in 1750-ies in the South of Russia
«Enslavement» of the Вon Cossacks in 1880—1890
