Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
Lithuanian policy official agency
The Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Vyriausiojo Archyvaro Tarnyba) is a government agency in Lithuania, which participates in the shaping of national policy in the field of management and use of documents and archives, as well as implements this policy, supports the Chief Archivist of Lithuania in the carrying-out of state administration of the field of documents and archives.
History
The emergence of archives in Lithuania is associated with the formation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the first half of the 13th century. The old Lithuanian chancery archives of Grand Duke and King Mindaugas did not survive: they were destroyed by numerous wars and fires. The Grand Duke's chancery archives later acquired the title of the Lithuanian Metrica. In the Middle Ages archives of towns, churches and estates were formed. When the Russian Empire occupied Lithuania in 1795, the most important Lithuanian archives were transferred to Russia.
It was in middle of the 19th century the first archives was established as a special institution for accumulating and preserving records. The year 1852 saw the establishment of the Vilnius Central Archives of Early Register Books, the purpose of which was to preserve official files of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Records from the period of the Russian invasion (19th–20th centuries), belonging to Tsarist Russian institutions of the Vilna Governorate, were stored in the Joint Archives of Vilnius Institutions established in 1872–76.
After the declaration of the independent Republic of Lithuania, the Central State Archives were established in Kaunas on 19 October 1921.
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