Did you know that in 1766, after Rumyantsev’s General inventory, there appeared the list of Cossacks who served in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra at that time?

At first, Kyiv Regiment Chancellery submitted “pro memoria” (the decision summarizing the results of census of “Malorossian citizens”) to the Spiritual Council of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The census was carried out at the request of the Collegium of Malorossiya and was part of the General inventory conducted by Count Petro Rumyantsev, President of the 2^nd Malorossiyan Collegium and Governor-General of the Left-Bank Ukraine. In response, the Spiritual Council requested the submission of the registers that were already created by that time. It was done to avoid any possible reregistration.

The Monastery prepared several registers. One of them contained the list of names of persons who had private houses and relatives. The other enumerated the names of ordinary people and Cossacks who lived in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. One more was about people that served their obedience in the Monastery. In all the papers there was a separate note about the age of the person and his/her place of origin. Modern Kyivans can find a lot of well-known areas in the documents, such as Vyshen’ky, Pechersk, Pyrogiv, Osokorky, Troieschyna, Podil, Hatne, etc. In the registers, there was also information about the children (from the families of ordinary people and Cossacks), who served obedience in Lavra (under the Archimandrite, in the clerical office, household office, painting, sewing, carpentry and other types of workshops). Given that the data about parents of those children and other members of the family could be found, they were also added to the information of the reference papers.

Caption to the illustration:

1. Portrait of Petro Rumyantsev. Author – I. I. Haake. 18^th century

Anna Filipova