ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ БРАТІВ ДМИТРА ТА ОЛЕКСАНДРА КНЯЖЕВИЧІВ У МІНІСТЕРСТВІ ФІНАНСІВ РОСІЙСЬКОЇ ІМПЕРІЇ
DMYTRO AND OLEKSANDR KNIAZHEVYCH ACTIVITIES IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

Summary/Abstract: The article is about Dmytro and Olexandr Kniazhevych activity in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire of the XIX century. The change sand in novations of the financial system of that time, the importance of personnel policy and the provision of the state apparatus with the necessary specialists who were ready for innovations and often were innovators themselves are analyzed. Those were the Kniazhevych brothers, who, thanks to hard work and natural wit were able to occupy key positions in one of the most important Ministries of the country. The purpose of the article disclose the work of the Kniazhevych brothers in the departments of the Ministry of Finance, to show their professional growth and participation in there form of the financial system of the Russian Empire of the nineteenth century. The analysis of Dmytroand Olexandr Knyazhevych’s services in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire allows to show their gradual career growth, appraise their career achievements and ability to look ahead, carry out reforms that are urgently needed by the country in the field of finance. Although the fiery and principled nature of the older brother, Dmytro Kniazhevych, did not allow him to reach his full potential in the Ministry of Finance, he was able to realize it in the Ministry of Education, where he proved himself as a reformer and brilliant manager at the position of trustee of the Odesa Educational District. In turn, Olexandr Kniazhevych, moving moderately in his career, devoted all his statesmanship to the Ministry of Finance, where he held the high position of Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire from 1858 to 1862.

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