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Situation in unoccupied Belarusian lands
Assistance to war victims
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| At the information office of the Russian Red Cross Society
in Mogilev. [1914-1916]. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-75972) |
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| Petition from family members of the Mogilev Town Council
employees called to military service to pay wages until their
husbands and sons return. 28 July 1914. Manuscript. (NIAB, f. 2099, op. 1, d. 304, l. 14) |
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| Extract from minute book of the 3rd Extraordinary Borisov
District Zemstvo Assembly concerning the arrangement of a hospital for
wounded soldiers in Novo-Borisov. 2 August 1914. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 22, op. 1, d. 1209, l. 2) |
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| Report on harvesting assistance provided to soldiers’ families by village communities in Igumen district, Minsk province (from
the chairman of the Igumen District Zemstvo Congress S. Melnitsky to the
Governor of Minsk). 4 September 1914. Typescript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 1595, op. 6, d. 15, l. 12-12 ob.) |
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| Survey of events “The war” on the organisation of
treatment for soldiers with mental diseases. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 11 September 1914. № 36. P. 1. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| Letter from the Director of Minsk Vocational School I.
Popov to the Commander of Minsk Military District about the teachers’
intent to create a hospital for wounded soldiers. 18 September 1914. Typescript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 466, op. 1, d. 236, l. 13) |
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| Article by G. B. “Help” on the necessity to provide aid to
families left without breadwinners. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 16 October 1914. № 41. P. 1. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| Application for opening an asylum for women and
girls in Minsk (from the chairwoman of the Minsk division of the Russian
Society for Protection of Women V. Aleksandrova to the Provincial Committee
for the Relief of War Sufferers). 17 October 1914. Typescript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 295, op. 1, d. 8576, l. 16-17) |
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| Notification to the Minsk Province Land Surveyor for the opening
of hospital for easily wounded
soldiers at the Minsk Province Drawing Office. 23-24 October 1914. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 120, op. 1, d. 2795, l. 205-205 ob.) |
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| Arrival of wounded soldiers at the Grodno railway
station. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24346) |
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| Transportation of wounded soldiers into the hospital of the
Voluntary Medical Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24345) |
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| Building of the hospital of the Voluntary Medical
Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24343) |
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| Ward in the hospital of the Voluntary Medical Detachment
of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24355) |
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| Surgical room in the hospital of the Voluntary Medical
Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24367) |
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| Wounded soldiers and the medical staff of the Voluntary
Medical Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24356) |
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| Doctor and nurses of the Voluntary Medical Detachment of
Grodno Fortress at the bed of a wounded soldier. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24352) |
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| Wounded soldiers in the hospital of the Voluntary Medical
Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24357) |
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| Medical personnel in the hospital of the Voluntary
Medical Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24347) |
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| Medical personnel in the hospital of the Voluntary
Medical Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24363) |
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| Pharmacy room in the hospital of the Voluntary Medical
Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24366) |
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| In the head doctor’s room in the hospital of the
Voluntary Medical Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. (BGAKFFD, 0-24361) |
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| Sanitary bus of the Voluntary Medical Detachment of
Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24344) |
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| Wounded soldiers praying in the hospital of the Voluntary
Medical Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24360) |
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| Dining room in the hospital of the Voluntary Medical
Detachment of Grodno Fortress. Grodno. 1 November 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-24362) |
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| Notice of acceptance to pay maintenance costs for a
village hospital for 10 soldiers during the war by peasants of
Markovichi village (from zemstvo chief, Gomel district to the Governor of
Mogilev). 18 November 1914. Typescript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 2014, op. 1, d. 3472, l. 43) |
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| Workshop for aid to war sufferers. 1914. Photo. (BGAMLI, f. 399, op. 1, d. 34, l. 1) |
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| Editorial article “The cooperative labour” calling for
unity against the hardships of war, in particular for the development of
cooperative economic activities. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 20 November 1914. № 46. P. 1. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| List of Minsk hospitals for wounded and sick
officers and soldiers. January 1915. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 300, op. 1, d. 66, l. 28-29) |
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| Report on the activity of the Mogilev Committee for
Assistance to Army Recruits and Their Families from 25
August 1914 until 1 March 1915. [March 1915]. Copy. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 2099, op. 1, d. 304, l. 94-100 ob.) |
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| Article by M. Skorevsky “To the peasants”
calling to help teenagers who remained breadwinners
after their fathers left for the front. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 7 March 1915. № 9. P. 3. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| Appeal of the Governor of Mogilev A. Piltz to male
secondary school students to help families of men called to war in
harvesting, sowing and farming. 26 June 1915. Print. (NIAB, f. 2260, op. 1, d. 614, l. 23) |
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| Certificate issued to Priest Dominik Yarosh confirming
that his house accommodates field mobile hospital № 194. 5 November 1915. Manuscript. (ZGA in Molodechno, f. 462, op. 1, d. 2, l. 21) |
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| Application for
permission to show cinema films to wounded soldiers staying in Minsk (from
the Minsk provincial division of the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna’s
Committee to the Governor of Minsk). 11 December 1915. Typescript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 511, op. 1, d. 7, l. 98-98 ob.) |
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| Poster “Russian Sister of Charity”. 1915. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 1-693) |
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| A. Pashkevich (Belarusian woman poet Tetka), worked as a
nurse in the typhus barracks of the Vilna military hospital, died of
typhus in 1916. Photo 1912. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 2, d. 4, l. 34 ob.) |
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| Charter of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War
Victims. Vilna. April 1915. Print. Belarusian, Russian. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 125, l. 5-12) |
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| Article by A. Lutskevich “Our duty” about the creation of
the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims and the necessity to
support this organisation. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 16 April 1915. № 15. P. 1. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| Report on the constituent assembly of the Belarusian
Society for Assistance to War Victims. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 22 May 1915. № 19-20. P. 3. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| Appeal of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War
Victims calling on citizens to provide assistance. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 22 May 1915. № 19-20. P. 3. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| Appeal of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War
Victims explaining the aims of the organisation and calling for
assistance. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 28 May 1915. № 21. P. 3. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| Article by A. Lutskevich calling for support to the
Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 5 June 1915. № 22. P. 1. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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Article by G. B. on the tasks of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims. Newspaper “Nasha niva”. 17 July 1915. № 28. P. 2. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, library, № 36103) |
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| A. Levitsky (Yadvigin Sh.) – organiser and board member of the
Minsk division of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War
Victims,
Belarusian writer. Photo 1917. (BGAMLI, f. 399, op. 1, d. 14, l. 1) |
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| S. Plavnik (Z. Biadulya) – board member of the Minsk division of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims,
Belarusian writer.
Photo 1925. (BGAMLI, f. 403, op. 1, d. 73, l. 1) |
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| L. Sivitskaya (Zoska Veras) – board member of the
Minsk division of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims,
Belarusian woman writer. Photo 1913. (BGAMLI, f. 318, op. 1, d. 199, l. 1) |
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| A. Smolich – board member of the Minsk division of
the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims,
Belarusian scholar. Photo 1921. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 3, d. 51, l. 1) |
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| Medical aid station in Minsk. Minsk. 1916. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-52920) |
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| Petition to the Minsk provincial committee of the
All-Russia Zemstvo Union for assistance to the localities
liberated from the enemy. 1916. Manuscript. (NIAB, f. 700, op. 1, d. 114, l. 24-25) |
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| Petition to the Governor of Minsk from peasant S.
Pavelchuk of Matiasy village, Pruzhany district, Grodno province for
searching his family. 17 April 1916. Manuscript. (NIAB, f. 511, op. 1, d. 9, l. 352) |
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| Instructions for collecting donations to
train disabled soldiers for labour activity (from Bishop I. Tsepliak,
manager of Mogilev archdiocese to the heads of Catholic churches). 3 August 1916. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 295, op. 1, d. 9186, l. 103-103 ob.) |
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| Notification of the
receipt of donations from the Borisov Catholic Church for assistance to
low ranking soldiers who suffered in the war (from Dean Ketzburg of Borisov
to the Governor of Minsk). 12 September 1916. Manuscript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 295, op. 1, d. 9186, l. 54) |
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| List of children at the orphanage of the Polish Society
for Assistance to War Victims in the town of Gory-Gorki, Mogilev province. 20 September 1916. Manuscript. (NIAB, f. 2005, op. 1, d. 785, l. 162-163) |
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| M. Bogdanovich – board member of the Minsk
division of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims,
Belarusian writer. Photo [1911.]. (BGAMLI, f. 153, op. 1, d. 34, l. 10, № 13) |
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| Application from the Minsk division of the Belarusian
Society for Assistance to War Victims to the Governor of Minsk for
permission to organise a one-day money raising event in Minsk on 4 December
1916 in support of the society (written by secreatry M. Bogdanovich). 31 October 1916. Manuscript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 295, op. 1, d. 9187, l. 338) |
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| List of members of the Minsk Province Food Commission
having right to buy foodstuffs at the food store of the Minsk province
committee of the All-Russia Zemstvo Union for Assistance to Sick and
Wounded Soldiers, with Maksim Bogdanovich at № 5 . 5 November 1916. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 700, op. 1, d. 126, l. 295) |
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| List of organisations in Vitebsk for the relief of refugees
and war victims. 2 November 1916. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 1430, op. 1, d. 50064, l. 479-480) |
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| Application for the distribution of essential goods to the orphans in the village of Ratomka (from
the Minsk division of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims
to the Minsk Province Tatiana’s Committee for Assistance to War Sufferers, written by secretary M.
Bogdanovich). 22 December 1916. Manuscript on the society’s letterhead. (NIAB, f. 511, op. 1, d. 10, l. 468) |
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| Invitation card for the constituent assembly of the
Belarusian Society in Petrograd for Assistance to War Victims. 21 January 1916. Print. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 9, l. 1 ob.) |
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| B. Epimakh-Shipillo – one of the founders of the
Belarusian Society in Petrograd for Assistance to War Victims, a prominent
figure in Belarusian culture. Photocopy. Photo [1910]. Yanushkevich Ya. Za arkhivnym porogom: Belorusskaia literatura XIX-XX vv. v svete arkhivnykh izyskanii. Minsk, 2002. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War) |
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| Letter of the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (Romanova)
to the Committee of the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for Assistance to
War Victims about the financing of asylums and refuges. 21 March 1916. Typescript on institutional letterhead. (NARB, f. 4, op. 1, d. 133, l. 29) |
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| Leaflets of the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims calling for money raising and other
donations. June 1916. Print. Belarusian, Russian. (NARB, f. 4, op. 1, d. 133, l. 34-35) |
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| Application of S. Kozlovsky to the Committee of the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 25 August 1916. Manuscript. Belarusian. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 8, l. 8) |
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| Invoice issued by the Singer Company to the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 31 August 1916. Manuscript on institutional letterhead. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 3, l. 353-355) |
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| Personal details of P. Medyolka, member of the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 1 November 1916. Manuscript on printed form. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 1, l. 192) |
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| Application for the payment of education from Ya.
Cherepuk to the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 4 November 1916. Manuscript. Belarusian. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 8, l. 44) |
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| Application for permission to organise performances in
Shklov and Fashchevka for the benefit of war victims in the
Polish Kingdom (from the Central Residents Committee of the Polish Kingdom
Provinces, Mogilev District to the Governor of Mogilev). 4 February 1917. Typescript on institutional letterhead. (NIAB, f. 2001, op. 1, d. 2127, l. 1) |
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| Report on the necessity to establish a daycare nursery at the
children’s orphanage in Gomel (from Commissar Belyakov to the Gomel City
Militia). 16 April 1917. Copy. Typescript. (NIAB, f. 2100, op. 1, d. 135, l. 3) |
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| Information on the number of wounded men evacuated from
the 15th and 16th evacuation points in Molodechno and Polochany. 14 July 1917. Typescript. (NARB, f. 60 p., op. 3, d. 252, l. 134) |
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| List of money donations received by the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 22 June 1917. Manuscript on institutional letterhead. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 8, l. 49) |
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| Food bill issued to the Committee of the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. July 1917. Manuscript on printed form. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 1, l. 742-742 ob.) |
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| Bill for electric plugs issued to the Committee of the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 23 August 1917. Manuscript on institutional letterhead. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 1, l. 707) |
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| Personal details of student P. Karavaichik of the Military Medical
Academy and his receipt of aid from the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 5 October 1917. Manuscript on printed form. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 1, l. 742-742 ob.) |
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| Bill for a refugee apartment issued by the house
manager’s office to the Committee of the Belarusian Society in Petrograd for
Assistance to War Victims. 1917. Manuscript on printed form. (NARB, f. 672, op. 1, d. 1, l. 740) |
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| Charter of the Vitebsk Union of Disabled Soldiers. 1917. Print. (NIAB, f. 2496, op. 1, d. 3376, l. 66) |
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