At head of title: Federalʹnoe arkhivnoe agentstvo. Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv drevnikh aktov.

" ... the largest collection of Russian medieval acts, formed during the secularization reform of 1764 as a result of the seizure of monasteries, chairs and churches of documents for the possessions and peasants transferred to the state. Currently, they are stored in RGADA (Russian State Archives of Ancient Documents) in the same name fund No. 281 and number more than fifteen thousand units of storage. The first of the three volumes contains a description of about five thousand documents of different monasteries and churches of the 15th and 18th centuries. On more than forty uyezds of the country from Alatyr to Irkutsk."--Title page verso, volume 1.

Manuscript illustrations on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.