Deutsche Beuteakten in Russischen Archiven
The database is the result of the project Deutsche Beuteakten in Russischen Archiven, which was discontinued in 2022. It includes the German trophy holdings of the Soviet armed forces, which are stored in the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense (CAMO), a total of 50 finding aids with approx. 28,000 files. The database also contains documents held by the Russian Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), the State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF) and other Russian archives.
Sowjetische und deutsche Kriegsgefangene und Internierte
The Max Weber Network Eastern Europe is leading the archival research on Soviet prisoners of war as part of the international project Sowjetische und deutsche Kriegsgefangene und Internierte. Together with its partners, the project team is cataloging documents in German, post-Soviet and other international archives. Project work took place in Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Serbia, France and Switzerland. The aim of the project is to trace the individual lives of Soviet prisoners of war and to make the relevant archive documents and data available in the Memorial Archives project database for humanitarian clarification of fate, research and commemorative cultural activities.
Sowjetische Zeitzeugen der NS-Herrschaft / Soviet Survivors of Nazi Occupation
The web portal presents an extensive corpus of previously unknown interviews with Soviet survivors and contemporary witnesses of the German occupation in the Soviet Union. The eyewitness accounts were recorded by Moscow historians (the so-called Minc Commission) who followed the Red Army on its advance westwards from 1942 until the end of the war. The interview transcripts (approx. 400 in total) currently stored in Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian archives are gradually being made available online in the original Russian and in German and English translations.
International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Until 2018, the DHI Moscow was responsible for coordinating the regional section “Russian Empire”.
Korpus russkich perevodov / The Corpus of Russian Translations
The database is the result of the project Transfer europäischer politischer Ideen und Praktiken ihrer Übersetzung im Russland des 18. Jahrhunderts, which was started at the DHI Moscow and has been continued by the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe since 2023. The focus is on the practices of translating European political terminology and the dissemination and use of printed and handwritten translations in Russia in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The database indexes and describes the enormous quantity of handwritten translations preserved in Russian archives and libraries. It includes original texts in specific social and political contexts and their translation into the reference language(s).
Adliges Leben und Adelskultur in der russischen Provinz des 18. Jahrhunderts
The research results of the project Adliges Leben und Adelskultur in der russischen Provinz des 18. Jahrhunderts can be consulted on the project’s own website. The research and editing project, which was completed in 2023, focused on the nobility in the central Russian governorates of Moscow, Orel and Tula in the second half of the 18th century. As part of the project, the biographies of around 4,000 noblemen were reconstructed and a scholarly edition of the instructions to the Legislative Assembly in St. Petersburg passed by the regional aristocratic assemblies was compiled.
Russland in den Berichten europäischer Diplomaten, 1690–1730
As part of the project Russland in den Berichten europäischer Diplomaten, 1690–1730, which was completed in 2016, the legation reports (relations) of six courts in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation concerning the courts in Moscow and St. Petersburg during the two key periods 1690-95 and 1725-30 were indexed and edited. The extensive records are annotated in detail and provided with name, place and subject indexes. The freely accessible database was created in technical cooperation with the University of Trier (FuD).

