What this record establishes
The Spiritual Board operated a central warehouse in Saint Petersburg. Branches opened in 15 cities on 1 August and another six on 1 September; military churches received candles and returned candle ends. The documented geographic reach later extended to Port Arthur.
Knowledge boundary: The 1893 lists establish the central warehouse and 21 branches, but not every recipient or uninterrupted operation of every point. Port Arthur is established only as a geographic limit of operations: the source identifies no branch, recipient, individual shipment or route there.
From Zelino to Port Arthur — map in the Journal
Military Clergy Herald: notices on candle-warehouse branches
- Document date
- 1893
- Exact location
- issue 14, pp. 420–421; issue 15, pp. 454–455; issue 18, pp. 547–548
- Provenance
- Military Clergy Herald. 1893. Issues 14, 15 and 18
- Confidence
- High — primary printed source
- Rights
- Public domain; digital copy available in Yandex Archive
- Limit of conclusion
- Establishes the central warehouse, opening dates and names of 21 branches, and the return of candle ends. It does not establish every final recipient, routes or uninterrupted branch operation.
Military Clergy Herald, review of the works’ first years
- Document date
- 1903
- Exact location
- p. 471
- Provenance
- Military Clergy Herald. 1903. Issue 15
- Confidence
- High — primary printed source
- Rights
- Public domain; digital copy available in Yandex Archive
- Limit of conclusion
- Establishes the geographic reach of operations as far as Port Arthur, but not a warehouse, church, unit, ship, individual shipment or route there.