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PHJ № 2 (50) 2026 — A. L. Gryaznov. ACTS OF THE KIRILLO-BELOZERSKY MONASTERY IN THE СOLLECTION OF N. G. GOLOVIN

The article examines the provenance of the archival records of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, transferred to the Charter Fund of the College of Economy in the latter half of the 18th century. A comparison of the inventories of acts sent from the monastery revealed that two dozen acts of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, transferred to the Charter Fund of the College of Economy, were stolen from there in the 19th century. A selection of these have been acquired by N. G. Golovin’s collection. The collection of ancient Russian acts by N. G. Golovin has been linked to the forgery of Golovin, which entailed the removal of original documents from the archive and their replacement with counterfeits. A thorough examination of the documents contained within the Golovin collection revealed that all acts pertaining to the Kirill-Belozersky Monastery were in fact obtained illegally from the Charter Fund of the College of Economy. The majority of the other letters from the Golovinsky collection also originate from the monastery archives and were stolen from the Charter Fund of the College of Economy. The theft and subsequent replacement of the coins with forgeries is believed to have occurred in the mid‑1840s.

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PHJ №1 (45) 2025 — M. S. Krutova. L. P. ZHUKOVSKAYA’S WORKS ON PALEOGRAPHY IN HER PERSONAL COLLECTION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS OF THE RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY

The article provides a comprehensive overview of the works on paleography contained in the personal archive fund of L. P. Zhukovskaya. The collection encompasses both published and unpublished works, materials related to their composition, as well as correspondence and biographical and official documents. It is evident that L. P. Zhukovskaya devoted significant attention to the paleographic characteristics of handwritten books. However, it is noteworthy that she demonstrated particular interest in the dating, attribution of scribal handwriting, the nature of the writing material and the artistic features of these manuscripts. The study of paleographic features of the handwritten source was a reliable foundation for conclusions about the textual andlinguistic characteristics of book monuments.

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PHJ №1 (45) 2025 — M. V. Korogodina, N. N. Levchenko. CONVOLUTE OR MISCELLANY: THE PROBLEM OF TYPOLOGY

Researchers of the manuscripts often use the terms “convolute”, “miscellany” or “collected manuscript”, “miscellany with additions”, putting different concepts into them. The article examines codices that have a complex structure: books collected in monasteries from fragments of earlier manuscripts, or compiled by a scribe over decades. In some cases, parts of the codex are united by dating, theme or scribe, though other features do not allow to consider the manuscript written at the same time. Such books require detailed descriptions. The authors of the article offer their definitions of the terms “convolute” and “miscellany”, relating the first to the codicological structure of the manuscript, and the second to its content.

PHJ № 3 (35) 2022 – L. V. Vyskochkov. Notes and projects of M. M. Speransky in the historiography of Russian source studies

The article discusses the main stages of the publication of the notes and projects by M. M. Speransky (1772–1839), who created hundreds of works on philosophy, jurisprudence, morality, religion, realized and unrealized projects of the state system, which were published and republished from 1802 to the present. In historiography, his early works are the most studied, in particular, his constitutional draft of 1809.