History of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts of the Rgada. Federal Archives

RGADA was formed on the basis of five main pre-revolutionary historical archives of Russia:

The Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice (MAMYU), formed in 1852 by merging the Moscow historical departmental archives - the Discharge-Senate Archive (1763), the Estate Archive (1786), the Moscow State Archive of Old Cases (1782) , the Archive of the Moscow departments of the Senate and the archives of local institutions of Russia, liquidated by the reforms of the 60s. XX century;

The Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGAMID), formed in 1724 and from that period until 1832 was called the Moscow Archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs (MAKID). In 1882, the State Repository of Ancient Charters and Manuscripts became part of the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs, which since 1834 was in the system of palace archives.

State Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (after 1917 - State Archive of the Russian Empire). It arose in 1801, separated from the St. Petersburg archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs in 1834, until 1917 it was in St. Petersburg.

Moscow branch of the General Archive of the Ministry of the Imperial Court (created in 1869 from the combined Archive of the Armory and the Archive of the Moscow Palace Office). Until 1888 it was called the Moscow Palace Archive.

5. Archive of the Land Survey Office (Land Survey Archive), created in 1768. From 1919 to 1939 - Central Survey Archive.

In 1918, the documents from these archives became part of the legal, historical and cultural section of the Unified State Archival Fund. In 1925, the above archives (except for the Central Boundary) were merged into the Ancient Storage of the Moscow branch of the Central Historical Archive of the RSFSR; the nationalized archives of the Moscow institutions of the Synod, churches and monasteries, personal and ancestral funds also came here.

In 1931, the Ancient Storage was transformed into the State Archive of the Feudal-Serfdom Era (GAFKE), which in 1938-1939 included the Central Survey Archive.

In 1941, GAFKE was renamed the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts (TsGADA; in 1985 - 1991 - TsGADA of the USSR).

In 1992, the archive depository was again renamed into the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA).

In 1993, RGADA was included in the list of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

The composition of the funds.

The archive includes documents formed in the activities of the institutions of the highest and central government of the Russian state and the Russian Empire before the administrative reforms of the late 18th - early 19th centuries, as well as local government institutions of the 16th - 18th centuries, including those abolished under the administrative reform of 1775 - 1779 ..

Also in the composition of the RGADA there is an archive of survey institutions of Russia of the 17th - 20th centuries.

Documents of state and public figures, figures of science and culture of Russia until the beginning of the 19th century, historically established collections of written monuments of history, science, culture and life of the Russian and other peoples that were part of Russia are also stored here.

The archives also contain documents from the estate, family and monastic archives.

In total, the archive contains: 1371 funds, 3,310,674 cases, as well as

8 funds, 792,420 units ridge scientific and technical documentation.

The Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA) is one of the federal archives that stores the most ancient documents on the history of Russia (in total, about 3.3 million files are stored in the archive).

RGADA was formed on the basis of documents from five pre-revolutionary archives:

Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice (MAMYU), established in 1852 and storing the funds of orders, collegiums of the 18th century. and local institutions;
the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGAMID), created in 1724 and storing the documents of the Ambassadorial Order, which were previously part of the Moscow tsarist and grand ducal archive;
the State Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (State Archive of the Russian Empire), created in 1801 to store cases of particular importance;
Moscow branch of the General Archive of the Ministry of the Imperial Court (Moscow Palace Archive), dating back to the archive of the Armory and storing the files of palace institutions of the 16th - early 20th centuries.
Archive of the Land Survey Office, which stores documents of land surveys of the 18th - 19th centuries.

In 1925, these archives were merged into the Ancient Depository of the Moscow branch of the Central Historical Archive of the RSFSR. The materials of church, monastery and family archives were also attached to them. In 1931, the Ancient Storage was transformed into the State Archive of the Feudal-Serfdom Era (GAFKE). In 1941, GAFKE was renamed the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts (TsGADA), since 1992 it has received the name of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA).

Basically, the archive documents cover the period up to the end of the 18th century, however, there are a number of funds from a later period.

Let us briefly consider the main funds of the RGADA, which can be used in genealogical research:

1) Documents of Moscow orders of the 16th - 17th centuries, of which the documents of the following institutions are the most important for genealogical research:

The local order (f. 1209), containing scribe, census, sentinel, boundary and other books, is the main source on the genealogy of the taxable population of the 17th century. Books of scribes can also be found in fund 137 "Boyar and city books".
Discharge order (f. 210) - documents about the service people of the Moscow State of the 16th - 17th centuries.
Siberian order (f. 214) - documents about the inhabitants of Siberia (including various kinds of censuses).
Little Russian order (f. 229) - documents about Ukrainian Cossacks and other categories of the population. Materials on the history of Ukraine are also contained in fund 124 "Little Russian Affairs".

I will tell about other important documents stored in RGADA next time.

RGADA stores documents for the period from the 11th to the beginning of the 20th centuries. The archive funds include materials from institutions of higher, central and local government of the Russian state and the Russian Empire that existed before the administrative reforms of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (except for the funds of the collegiums - Admiralty, Foreign and Military), funds of the central boundary institutions of Russia in the 18th-early 20th centuries, documents of state and public figures, scientists and cultural figures, estates, family and monastery archives, collections of written historical monuments, culture and life of the Russian and other peoples of the Russian Empire, collections of domestic and foreign handwritten books, early printed and rare editions of the 15th-19th centuries.

The most valuable part of the RGADA materials is the collection of the most ancient act monuments of the State Ancient Repository of Charters and Manuscripts. It includes about 400 items. ridge and consists of the remains of the archives of the great and specific princes, the archives of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov, the Moscow Grand Duke and the so-called Tsar's archive of the sixteenth century. The earliest document of this collection is the treaty charter of Veliky Novgorod with the Grand Duke of Tver and Vladimir Yaroslav Yaroslavich in 1264. In addition to spiritual, contractual and other acts, there are lists of legislative monuments of the 11th-17th centuries: Russkaya Pravda, Sudebnik 1497 of Ivan III (the only a list known to science), the Sudebnik of Ivan IV of 1550, as well as the original column of the Cathedral Code of 1649.

Documents of the higher administration of Russia in the 17th-18th centuries. contained in the funds of the personal offices of the monarchs - the Order of Secret Affairs, the "Cabinets" of Peter I (1694-1727), Catherine II (1762-1796), Paul I (1796-1801); Office of State Secretaries, Near Office (1699-1718), Supreme Privy Council (1726-1730), Governing Senate (1711-1917), senatorial and synodal institutions. In the categories of the State Archive of the Russian Empire there is documentation of the bodies of political investigation, supervision and investigation - the Preobrazhensky Prikaz (1686-1729), the Secret Office (1718-1726) and the Secret Expedition of the Senate (1762-1801), secret investigative commissions of the XIX century.

The materials of the institutions of the central sectoral and territorial administration are represented by the funds of almost all orders of the 16th-early 18th centuries: Aptekarsky, Big Parish and Big Treasury, Little Russian, Local, Ambassadorial, Razryadny, Siberian, palace and quarter orders.

The management of industry and trade in the 17th-19th centuries, the financial policy of the Russian government were reflected in the funds of orders and collegiums (Berg-, Chambers-, Commerce-, Manufaktura-), the Main Magistrate, customs, offices and offices of the 18th century, as well as in funds of noble families who owned factories, factories and mines.

The activities of local government institutions of the XVI-XVIII centuries. is reflected in the funds of clerk, lip and category huts, provincial, provincial and district (voivodship) offices, institutions for the management of certain categories of the population (palace, state and economic peasants, single-palaces, colonists), as well as state forests and crafts.

Agrarian relations in pre-revolutionary Russia were reflected in the funds of the Votchina Collegium, Local and Discharge Orders.

Among the monastic funds are the funds of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Solovetsky, and other monasteries, characterizing land ownership, economy, management of monastic peasants, construction of church buildings and other issues.

Scribal, census and boundary books of the 15th-17th centuries, the fund of the Local Order, documents of revisions of the population of the 18th century, funds of central boundary institutions of the 18th-early 20th centuries. (land survey offices, Office of the Chief Director of the Land Survey Corps), which carried out general, special and special land surveying, contain versatile information about geography, natural conditions, demography, economic development of individual regions of the country and individual settlements.

A significant group in the RGADA are the funds of palace institutions, including the Main Palace Chancellery and its offices (1721-1786), the Ministry of the Imperial Court.

The materials of the Ambassadorial, Siberian, Little Russian orders, the Senate, and the categories of the State Archives widely cover Russia's relations with foreign states, relations with the peoples that later became part of the Russian Empire, their history and culture.

In the funds-collections of the State Archives and the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs, the Armory and the Palace Archives, as well as in the collections of handwritten books from the handwritten departments of the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs and the Synodal Printing House, the collections of F.F. Mazurin, Prince. M. A. Obolensky, the Sarov desert, monuments of Russian culture are kept - an ancient Slavic manuscript of the 11th century. from the library of the Moscow Synodal Printing House "Savvin's Book", the Sofia First Chronicle in the list of the 15th century, the Nikon Chronicle of the 16th century, and other ancient Russian chronicles in the lists of the 15th-19th centuries. In the manuscript collections of the RGADA, Russian and translated secular and theological literature are widely represented - the works of Maxim Grek, Joseph Volotsky, Prince. A. M. Kurbsky, Archpriest Avvakum, as well as manuscripts in classical, Slavic, Western European and Eastern languages.

Family and personal funds of the largest landowners, industrialists, statesmen of pre-revolutionary Russia: Bobrinsky, Vorontsov, Gagarin, Golitsyn, Goncharov, Demidov, Panin, Sheremetev, Shuvalov, Yusupov, include materials on private land ownership, trade and industry, domestic and foreign policy, science and culture, characterize the official and social activities of representatives of the ruling elite.

Leningrad State University. A.S. Pushkin

Abstract on the topic:

"Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts"

Performed

Guryleva A.N.

St. Petersburg

1.History of the formation of the archive

2. Brief description and main content of the archive funds

Scientific and reference apparatus of the archive

Services provided by the archive

Chronology of events

1. History of the formation of the archive

The Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, as the largest Russian repository, contains documents from the period of the 11th - early 20th centuries. The archive funds include materials from institutions of higher, central and local government of the Russian state and the Russian Empire that existed before the administrative reforms of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (except for the funds of the collegiums - Admiralty, Foreign and Military), funds of the central boundary institutions of Russia in the 18th-early 20th centuries, documents of state and public figures, scientists and cultural figures, estates, family and monastery archives, collections of written monuments of history, culture and life of the Russian and other peoples of the Russian Empire, collections of domestic and foreign handwritten books, early printed and rare editions of the 15th-19th centuries. This archive is located in Moscow at Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 17.

RGADA in its modern form was formed on the basis of five pre-revolutionary archives:

1.Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice (MAMYU). This archive was formed in 1852 as a result of the merger of the Razryadno-Senate Archive (existed since 1763), the Archive of former patrimonial affairs (since 1768, the State Archive of Old Affairs (since 1782), the Archive of the Moscow departments of the Senate; later, in the 1860s years, the repository was replenished with documents from the archives of local institutions in Russia;

2.Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGAMID), which from 1724 to 1832 was called the Moscow Archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs (MAKID). In 1882, its repository was replenished with documents from the abolished State Ancient Repository of Charters and Manuscripts;

.St. Petersburg State Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which arose in 1801, in 1834 separated from the St. Petersburg Archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs;

.the Moscow branch of the General Archive of the Ministry of the Imperial Court, which was created in 1869 by merging the Archive of the Armory and the Archive of the Moscow Palace Office and until 1888 was called the Moscow Palace Archive;

.Archive of the Survey Office, which was created in 1768 (in 1919-1939 it was called the Central Survey Archive).

In 1918, the storage units of these archives became part of the legal and historical and cultural sections of the Unified State Archival Fund.

1925 can be considered the year of foundation of the RGADA, when four of the indicated archives (except for the Central Boundary) were combined into a single Ancient Repository of the Moscow Branch of the Central Historical Archive of the RSFSR; it also received the documents of the Synod, churches and monasteries, personal and ancestral funds nationalized by the state. In 1931, the Ancient Storage was renamed the State Archive of the Feudal-Serfdom Era (GAFKE). In 1938-1939, the mentioned Central Boundary Archive was included in it.

In 1941, the GAFKE was renamed the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts (TsGADA; in 1985-1991 it was called TsGADA of the USSR). In 1992, the archive received its current name. In 1993, it was included in the list of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

2. Brief description and main content of the archive funds

RGADA consists of 383 funds, which is 3,313,000 units. khr., XI century - 1917 funds of institutions - 2 284 353 units. hr.; personal funds - 222,445 units. hr.; handwritten books - 12,597 units. hr.; scientific and technical documentation - 792 405 units. ridge

Documents of the higher administration of Russia in the 17th-18th centuries. contained in the funds of the personal offices of the monarchs - the Order of Secret Affairs, the "Cabinets" of Peter I (1694-1727), Catherine II (1762-1796), Paul I (1796-1801); Office of State Secretaries, Near Office (1699-1718), Supreme Privy Council (1726-1730), Governing Senate (1711-1917), senatorial and synodal institutions. In the categories of the State Archives of the Russian Empire there is documentation of the political investigation, supervision and investigation bodies - the Preobrazhensky Prikaz (1686-1729), the Secret Chancellery (1718-1726) and the Secret Expedition of the Senate (1762-1801), secret investigative commissions of the XIX century.

A significant group in the RGADA are the funds of palace institutions, including the Main Palace Chancellery and its offices (1721-1786), the Ministry of the Imperial Court.

The materials of the Ambassadorial, Siberian, Little Russian orders, the Senate, the categories of the State Archives widely cover Russia's relations with foreign states, relations with the peoples that later became part of the Russian Empire, their history and culture

In the funds-collections of the State Archives and the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs, the Armory and the Palace Archives, as well as in the collections of handwritten books from the handwritten departments of the Library of the Moscow State Museum of Foreign Affairs and the Synodal Printing House, the collections of F.F. Mazurin, Prince. M.A. Obolensky, Sarov desert, monuments of Russian culture are kept - an ancient Slavic manuscript of the 11th century. from the library of the Moscow Synodal Printing House "Savvin's Book", the Sofia First Chronicle in the list of the 15th century, the Nikon Chronicle of the 16th century, and other ancient Russian chronicles in the lists of the 15th-19th centuries. Russian and translated secular and theological literature is widely represented in the manuscript collections of the RGADA - the works of Maxim Grek, Joseph Volotsky, Prince. A.M. Kurbsky, Archpriest Avvakum, as well as manuscripts in classical, Slavic, Western European and Eastern languages.

Family and personal funds of the largest landowners, industrialists, statesmen of pre-revolutionary Russia - the Bobrinskys, Vorontsovs, Gagarins, Golitsyns, Goncharovs, Demidovs, Panins, Sheremetevs, Shuvalovs, Yusupovs - include materials on private land ownership, trade and industry, domestic and foreign policy, science and culture, characterize the official and social activities of representatives of the ruling elite.

Of greatest interest to researchers are naturally the most ancient sources on the history of Russia and, first of all, these are narrative-narrative monuments - Russian chronicles and writings of contemporaries. Chronicles are the main historical source for both the history of Russia and the history of the Mari region of the XV-XVI centuries. The most informative are Nikonovskaya, Voskresenskaya, Lvovskaya, Yermolinskaya, Vologda-Permskaya, Alexander-Nevskaya, Sofia I and II, Novgorod IV, Simeonovskaya, Nikanorovskaya chronicles, the Moscow Chronicle of the end of the 15th century, “The Tale of the Honest Life of the Tsar and Grand Duke Fyodor Ivanovich of All Russia”, “Continuation of the Chronograph of the edition of 1512”, “The Power Book of the Royal Genealogy”, “The Royal Book”, “The Chronicler of the Beginning of the Kingdom of the Tsar and Grand Duke Ivan Vasilievich”, Nizhny Novgorod and Arkhangelsk Chroniclers, etc. A unique source on the history of the Middle Volga region and Cisurals XV-XVI centuries. is the Kazan History, also known as the Kazan Chronicler. This historical and journalistic work, complex in composition, contains a lot of news about the Kazan Khanate, Russian-Tatar relations and the peoples of the Volga and Ural regions. The uniqueness of the “Kazan History” lies in the fact that the Tatar tradition has been preserved in it, and the author himself, who was a contemporary and eyewitness of the last years of the existence of the Khanate, is not hostile towards Kazan, but rather even sympathetic.

In second place after the annals in terms of importance are official bit books. They include news about the appointment of governors to campaigns, assignment to service in cities and "from the field", sometimes details of campaigns and results.

Another group of sources is represented by act material - grants, orders, spiritual, tarkhan, bills of sale, court and other letters issued to monasteries, governors, service people and peasants. Of considerable value are the royal orders to governors sent to the cities of the Middle Volga region. Unfortunately, orders of the XVI century. has not come down to us, but from the 17th century. a dozen survived. Retrospectively, they allow you to get the necessary information about an earlier period. Acquaintance with this group of sources helps to understand the principles on the basis of which the government policy in the Russian state was built, as well as to get an idea of the economy and national relations.

The sources listed above have already been published and are available to researchers. Of much greater interest are unpublished archival sources, the introduction of which contributes to the development of historical science, the clarification of known material, the advancement of new hypotheses, the formulation of problems, the approval of new concepts.

To date, not all chronicles have been published. Fragments of chronicles, chroniclers and chroniclers have been preserved in collections of personal funds stored in the archive. For example, "Russian Chronicle" from the manuscript collection of M.A. Obolensky (F. 201) No. 42. These chronicle materials, although they basically repeat the already known published chronicles, also contain discrepancies that allow new information to be revealed by comparing the news.

A source of unique importance containing detailed information on the socio-economic history of the country is the surviving scribe and sentinel books on the Nizhny Novgorod, Vyatka, Sviyazhsky and Kazan counties (F. 1209). Some of them are fully or partially published. They are official documents and therefore contain the most accurate information about the process of colonization of the Volga region and the agrarian policy of the government, about the policy towards the non-Russian peoples of the Volga region.

Diplomatic documents on Russia's relations with Kazan and Astrakhan, unfortunately, have not reached us. They died as a result of numerous Moscow fires. Scattered material on Russian-Kazan relations is contained in the surviving embassy books on relations with the Nogai Horde (F. 127), the Crimean Khanate (F. 123), the Ottoman Empire (F. 89) and the Polish-Lithuanian state (F. 79). These are orders to Russian ambassadors, envoys and messengers, reports of the latter and correspondence between Russian sovereigns and foreign princes, kings, khans and representatives of the nobility. First of all, there is information about the foreign policy interstate contacts of the Kazan Khanate, but there is information that characterizes the internal situation of the country. The embassy books provide the most complete picture of the complex political situation in Eastern Europe during the existence of the Kazan Khanate and the significance of the “Kazan issue” in international relations in the first decades after its conquest. The materials of the Crimean and Nogai cases tell about the attempts of separatist-minded Tatar feudal lords and Mari leaders to rely on the help of the Crimean Khanate in the fight against the Russian conquerors. Some news are unique and are of interest not only for the history of the Mari region and the Middle Volga region, but also for Russia as a whole.

Of particular interest are the materials of the archive of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Lithuanian metrics (F. 389). Since, for example, in the study of the history of the Middle Volga region, these materials were almost not involved, and only recently came to the attention of historians. It contains information about Kazan-Lithuanian diplomatic contacts in 1506-1507. and later, including correspondence between King Sigismund I and Khan of Kazan Mohammed-Emin.

The funds of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts undoubtedly hide many more valuable facts about the history of our country, which are waiting for their researchers.

Scientific and reference apparatus of the archive

In RGADA, as in any other large archive of the country, there is an extensive scientific reference apparatus.

Pointers to the list of archive funds:

By numbers

· Fund name alphabetically

· According to the funds of local institutions of the XVI - XVIII centuries.

· According to the funds of church institutions

· Stock inclusions of complex composition:

f.248 Governing Senate

f.396 Archive of the Armory

In 4 volumes, annotated - reveals the content of each inventory in the order of fund numbers.

· Unique funds

· Headquarters Funds

· Funds of estates and palace institutions

· Personal and monastic funds

Services provided by the archive

All archive documents are available to researchers.

Researchers working conditions:

There is a spacious reading room for working with original documents, a special room for working with microfilms and a small room for working with cartographic materials of the archival depository of boundary funds. Orders are usually completed within 2 days.

Internal help desk:

The reference apparatus of the archive is based on inventories, partly compiled back in the 18th-19th centuries, some of which are much more detailed than those compiled in our time. Most of the descriptions are in the reading room. All of them are included in the typewritten "Register of Inventories" in 5 volumes, in which the characteristics of the inventories (in tabular form) are given by fund numbers. For individual groups of funds, indexes have been compiled in sheet and card forms, including an index of church institutions, indexes of stock inclusions in funds of a complex composition (Archives of the Armory, the Governing Senate).

Availability of the library: 210 thousand units. hr., XV-XX centuries.

The archive library was formed from the libraries of MGAMID, MAMU, the Synodal Printing House, personal libraries of collectors and scientists (G.F. Miller, F.F. Mazurin, M.A. Obolensky, D.Ya. Samokvasov, etc.), is chronologically the oldest book depository Moscow (the MGAMID collection goes back to the library of the Posolsky Prikaz).

Rare and early printed books are included in two funds: in Russian (ORI, Russian) and foreign (ORI, foreign) languages (XV century - 1825), as well as in several separate collections - the libraries of the Moscow Synodal Printing House (BMST) , early printed books in Cyrillic script (SPK), collections of F.F. Mazurin, D.Ya. Samokvasov - these are incunabula (21 copies), paleotypes, aldines, elseviers, early printed Cyrillic editions, including Shvaypolt Fiol, Francysk Skaryna; Moscow publications, starting from the 16th century, including Ivan Fedorov.

The library of the archive has the best collection of books of the Moscow church and civil press of the 16th-18th centuries; the library funds contain books from the personal libraries of historians and archivists G.F. Miller, M.A. Obolensky, F.A. Buhler, F.R. Osten-Sackena, S.A. Belokurova, N.A. Popova, D.V. Tsvetaeva and others. As part of the reference apparatus to the library funds, there are alphabetical, subject, fund catalogues.

Books can be ordered in the reading room.

Copy:

It is possible to make microfilms, photocopies and photocopies. As a general rule, photocopying of bound manuscripts and manuscripts is not permitted. Copying volumes are limited by technical capabilities. For foreign researchers, payment is offered in rubles in dollar terms. In the case of copying documents for commercial purposes, the archive concludes a license agreement.

Chronology of events

archive ancient act book

Since June 1992 - Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA)

June 1992 - Central State Archive of Ancient Acts of the USSR (TsGADA)

1941 - State Archive of the Feudal-Serfdom Era (GAFKE)

1931 - Ancient storage of the Moscow branch of the Central Historical Archive of the RSFSR

1939 - Central Survey Archive

1920 - Moscow branch of the General Archive of the Ministry of the Imperial Court

1920 - Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice (MAMYU)

1918 - State Archive of the Russian Empire (State Archive)

1882 - State Ancient Repository of Charters and Manuscripts

1920 - Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGAMID)

1852 - Moscow State Archive of Old Cases

1919 - Archive of Land Survey Office

1852 - Archive of former patrimonial affairs

1852 - Rank-Senate archive

1832 - Moscow Archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs (MAKID)

Tutoring

Need help learning a topic?

Our experts will advise or provide tutoring services on topics of interest to you.
Submit an application indicating the topic right now to find out about the possibility of obtaining a consultation.