20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

Electronic annotated Catalogue of Archival Funds... 235Till now, despite accessibility of archival materials to scholars, alsomostly Russian, these materials are rather seldom used by scholars andunlikely the situation will change in the near future. In the least favourablesituation there are scholars from peripheral scientific centres in Russia, aswell as our foreign colleagues.It often happens that specialists use only a small part of the huge massifof archival materials, as the particularity of work in archives is quite oftenconnected with the situation when a researcher, working on a certain theme,at times occasionally passes by those or other interesting and importantmaterials. Frequently archival materials are used selectively; thus a generalview of this or that question is deformed or given one-sided.My intention to give an opportunity to researchers to put a biggernumber of archival materials on various periods of Russian-Mongolianrelations into scientific circulation has resulted in the decision to startworking on the creation of electronic annotated catalogue of archival fundsof Moscow and St.-Petersburg.It is supposed to carry out research work in the following archives:in Moscow – the Archive of foreign policy of the Russian Empire,the Archive of foreign policy of the Russian Federation, the Statemilitary archive, the Russian state archive of social and political history,the Archive of the Academy of sciences of Russia, the Archive of theInstitute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; inSt.-Petersburg – the Russian state naval archive, the Archive of the RussianGeographical society, the Archive of the Institute of oriental manuscripts ofthe Russian Academy of Sciences.A huge number of archival documents and materials kept in the abovementioned archives, assume allocation of priority archives, from which itwill be possible to start my work.At the first stage of work I am going to bring out the archival fundswhich contain documents and materials on Russian-Mongolian relations inthe specified periods. On this, initial stage the basic attention will be givento two archives where a great number of the documents on the theme iskept. These are: the Archive of foreign policy of the Russian Empire andthe Archive of foreign policy of the Russian Federation. As an example Iwould like to name only some funds of the Archive of foreign policy of theRussian Empire, in which the documents I am interested in are kept. Forexample, these are: Fund 134 “Archive of the war of 1913-1917”, in whichthe materials on the policy of Russia towards Mongolia are kept; Fund143 the “Chinese board” (1644-1917) contains the materials on China,Mongolia, Manchuria, and Japan. In this fund messages, consular reports,