Sistematizarea controlului birocratic ca practică modernizatoare în Rusia imperială din deceniul al cincilea al secolului al XIX-lea
The Systematization of Bureaucratic Control as the Modernizing Practice in Imperial Russia during 1840s

Summary/Abstract: Through this study, I sought to fulfil two aims. Firstly, it proposed to continue the relatively new vision in Western historiography of the Nicolaevan interstition (1825-1855), which intended to evoke the consequence of changes from the beginning of century until the most spectacular Reform Era of Alexander II. During the years of apparent conservative and reactionary years, autocracy paid attention to create a milieu of legitimacy with the support of Rational and Enlightenment-type administrative tools. Secondly, it follow in pursuit the main objectives of one of the most notable “Enlightened Bureaucrat” – Minister of Internal Affairs L. A. Perovskii, whowas strongly decided to re-evaluatethe position of Urban Police in the table of organization andto assure the administrative supervision with new instruments. The increasing of frequency of reports presented by governors-general and the number of regular attainments of Saint Petersburg, as well as appealing of special agents deserved mainly these targets. Also, inspired by the three models of Western Europe: French, British and Prussian, the statistic emerged as scientific leading interest of ministry, which was started to be viewed like as the best strategy to “re-discover” the own ruled territory and people.

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