Institution of customs district chief in Russia in the first half of the 19th century
Institution of customs district chief in Russia in the first half of the 19th century

Summary/Abstract: In the early 1820s the customs district chief was instituted in Russia. This official was in charge of all the customs offices operating on the borders of the Romanov Empire. Moreover, the customs district chief supervised other structures on behalf of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Finance (FTDMF). The conducted analysis of handwritten and printed sources justifies the conclusion that the position of customs district chief was instituted as a result of gradual modernisation of the customs administration at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Moreover, the very process of shaping rights and duties of the customs district chief took place in the second, third and fourth decades of the 19th century. Such an operative model of the clerk supervising the functioning of the customs administration and border guards became permanently established in the structures of the Russian customs administration. Furthermore, in 1851, as a result of the liquidation of the customs autonomy of the Kingdom of Poland, the position of the customs district chief appeared in those peripheral territories of the Russian Empire.

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