Functioning of the Customs Administration of the Kingdom of Poland in Russia in 1914–1917 (until the Fall of the Romanov Monarchy)
Functioning of the Customs Administration of the Kingdom of Poland in Russia in 1914–1917 (until the Fall of the Romanov Monarchy)

Summary/Abstract: In late July and early August 1914, with the rising threat of war, customs administration structures of the Kingdom of Poland were evacuated to Russia. The administrative personnel and their families, as well as the assets of the customs offices were removed to the interior governorates of the Russian Empire. Russian authorities assumed that the forced stay outside the Kingdom of Poland would be short-lived, counting on the military successes of the tsarist army. However, due to the Russian army’s loss of strategic initiative, these offices never returned to the Kingdom of Poland. Based on surviving source materials, the article presents the process of the evacuation in 1914, and the operation of the evacuated Russian customs administration structures until the fall of the Romanov monarchy in March 1917.

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