Szkic do portretu urzędników guberni północno-zachodnich Rosji do końca lat pięćdziesiątych XIX wieku na przykładzie urzędników izb skarbowych
Sketch for a Portrait of Officials of Russian North-Western Gubernias to the Late 1850s, on the Example of Officials of the Treasury Chambers

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to present the social and legal situation of the employees of the administrative apparatus in the north-western gubernias of the Russian Empire until the end of the 1850s. It sheds light on the social and national background, education, family, and economic situation of officials employed in the treasury chambers. The author used mate- rials preserved in Lithuanian and Belarusian archives to characterise this professional group. Descriptions of the service status of employees of the Vilnius, Grodno and Minsk tax cham- bers made it possible to identify 225 officials. The analysis reveals the milieu of the emerging intelligentsia stratum, originating mainly from the declassed gentry of Polish origin.

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