Российский государственный архив древних актов/ Russian State Archives of Ancient ActsThe Russian State Archives holdings date back to the 11th century. The archive's collections include materials from institutions of higher, central and local government of the Russian state and the Russian Empire, which existed before the administrative reforms of the late 18th - early 19th centuries, local patrimonial, clan and monastic archives, collections of written monuments of history, culture and life of the Russian and other peoples of the Russian Empire,