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Everyone who migrated inside the Russia Empire during the reference period was obliged to have appropriate person documents. The standard approach to these documents is explained in the Page Fundamentals of Bureaucracy. In the current Page the documents presented on this Site are listed. It was much easier to travel around in independent Latvia 1918-1940, but everybody had their person documents as well. The system of these documents is also explained on this Site. The documents in the lists below are grouped by the year. |
| Placard Passport | The Placard Passport that allowed to travel throughout the Russia Empire in 1835. 1 Name: Ruth |
| Billets | Billets were documents that a person was handed when produced the passport in a Police institution. The billets of 1838 and 1859 for Riga city are shown. 3 Names: Martinovs, Fjodorovs, Skuja |
| Permission to leave | Only a leaflet issued by both the Pastor and the pagasts officials. This leaflet allowed a peasant girl to leave the pagasts and to travel presumably inside Vidzeme [Livland] province (1856). 4 Names: Baltiņš, Dzērve, Knīrims (Knieriem), Misiņš |
| Placard Passport | The Placard Passport made in 1868, that allowed to travel in any part of the Empire. 3 Names: Ribakovs, Ruts, Simanovičs (Simanowicz) |
| Pagasts Passport | Pagasts Passport, that was made in pagasts office, allowed to travel inside the Baltic provinces (1885). 2 names Skujiņš, Veinbergs |
| Placard Passport | Placard Passports that allowed to travel in any part of the Russia Empire in 1900. 7 Names: Asmus, Dekerts (Deckert), Mednis, Porietis, Špacs (Spatz), Zeltiņš, Zutis |
| Passport booklet | Passport booklet of 1908. 4 Names: Martinsons, Lukins, Neišilds (Neuschild), Tičiņins |
| First passport | The first Latvia passport for Latgale part of the State that was issued right after the offices of this country began to work in 1920. 1 Name: Laurens |
| Birth Certificate | A birth certificate issued by Smiltene Lutheran church. It was used for making the first Latvia passport in December 1920. 4 Names: Ķebers, Kundziņš, Runcis, Runska |
| Latvia Passport | A Latvia passport issued in 1928 and legal for three regimes till the end of the WW2. 3 Names: Pētersons, Timmermanis, Valdovskis |
| Horse passport | The document that any horse owner had in prewar Latvia. 10 Names: Bērziņš, Blumenau, Dreimanis, Eglītis, Feldhūns, Kalnozols, Kaufmanis, Liepa, Melbārdis, Saukants |