This article is a reconstruction of archival policies pursued by Russian universities in the nineteenth century and their effects. By comparing "old" and "new" archive inventories, archivists' records and ministerial instructions, Elena Vishlenkova detects sets of documents that were destroyed...

Studies of interconnections between social, technological, economic and cultural forces belong to the trend of modernisation studies in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. Modernisation implies the establishment and growth of institutions and infrastructures that are...