INSTITUTE OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN ASIATIC RUSSIA: PEOPLE AND STRUCTURE

DOI 10.31554/2222-9175-2019-33-10-21

INSTITUTE OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN ASIATIC RUSSIA: PEOPLE AND STRUCTURE

Dameshek L. M., Dameshek I. L.

Based on the regulations and documents of management and record keeping the article deals with the history of establishment of governor-general’s institute in the vast territory of Asiatic Russia. A detailed social portrait of the elite of Siberian government officials has been recreated on the basis of a comparative analysis. Moreover, the article examines the specific features of the activity of governor-generals in the empire’s east, determined by the Sibirskoe Uchrezhdenie (1822).