Russia, Tver, Confession Lists, 1728-1913

What is in This Collection?

This collection of church confessions for the Province of Tver includes the years 1728 to 1913. Original records are also housed in various parishes throughout the Province of Tver, Russia.

Church confession lists were created and kept by priests to record the information related to their parishioner’s confessions. The form of confession lists was established in 1737. It includes the sequential number of the household, surname, given names of all children at least one year old, gender, ages, whether or not the person attended confession, and, if not, why the person did not attend (this is rarely noted). Confessions were done during Lent, the period of the liturgical year from Ash Wednesday to Easter. Children were taken to confession beginning in their seventh year. Russian Orthodox confession lists were sometimes interfiled with the church records of baptisms, marriages, or deaths.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Reading These Records

These records are written in Russian. For help reading them see:

• Russia Language and Languages
• Russian Genealogical Word List
• Russia Handwriting

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• Reading Russian Documents: The Russian Alphabet

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What Can These Records Tell Me?

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