Collection of manuscripts and documents

Documents of the XVIII century in the collection of the  Fund are presented mainly by charters on parchment with the signatures-autographs of the Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine II, patents for rank, both military and civil, printed copies of the Imperial and Senate decrees.

A significant part of the documents of the first half of the XIX century reflects the events associated with the uprising of the Decembrists: the Manifest of abdication of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich in favor of Nicholas Pavlovich, "The List of the State Criminals", a handwritten copy of K.F.Ryleev’s letter before his execution.

Patriotic War of 1812 is ... ↓ presented in the orders, reports, award documents.

The development of industry, science, education and culture is adequately represented in the documentary collection. The documents concerning architecture and construction of the city are of particular value for the research. ↑

In the documents of the collection all the diversity of the city's history in the XXth century can be traced and reflected: the First World War, the Revolution, the NEP, space exploration.

A special place is occupied by the relics of the Great Patriotic War and Siege of Leningrad - personal complexes and selected documents of the city's defenders, partisans, residents of ... ↓ Leningrad. Some of these documents can be seen in the expositions and exhibitions in the Rumyantsev Mansion, in the Memorable Hall of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad. ↑