scholarly journals Lepel district gentry at the turn of 18th–19th centuries

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
S. L. Lougovtsova
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
High Level ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The question of the distribution of the Belarusian gentry in cities, towns and rural settlements is poorly understood in Belarusian historiography. Specific data on the level of mobility of the Belarusian nobility are missing in the scientific literature. This determines the relevance of this study. The aim of the article is to clarify the place of residence of the Lepel district gentry of the Viciebsk province of the Russian Empire at the turn of 18th–19th centuries and to determine their level of mobility. The author of the article on the basis of archival sources comes to the following conclusions. Agriculture was the basis of the gentry’s activities, it identified as the main places of residence of its representatives villages, «okolitsy» and «zastenki» (about 77 % of the gentry of the Lepel district). About 4 % of the gentry of the Lepel district lived in townships. The proportion of gentry in towns was about 3 %. In the landed estates lived about 11 % of the Lepel district gentry. The «okolitsy» met most rarely in Lepel district among the settlements located in the countryside. The gentry changed their place of residence, first of all, in search of more favorable conditions for the lease of land, service in landlord estates, as well as for family reasons. The population of «zastenki», as a rule, did not exceed 20 people. For objective reasons, it was not possible to find out the place of residence of 5 % of the gentry of the district. Szlachta of the Lepel district was distinguished by a high level of its mobility: in the period from 1795 to 1819, at least 24 % of the gentry changed their residence, which seriously hampered the registration of this category of population in the Russian Empire.

A New Step in the Study of the History of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-98
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The paper is a review on the textbook by A. V. Yeremin, «The History of the National Prosecutor’s office» and the anthology «The Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Empire in the Documents of 1722–1917» (authors: V. V. Lavrov, A. V. Eremin, edited by N. M. Ivanov) published at the St. Petersburg Law Institute (branch) of the University of the Prosecutor’s office of the Russian Federation in 2018. The reviewers emphasize the high relevance and high level of research, their theoretical and practical significance. The textbook and the anthology will help the students increase their legal awareness, expand their horizons.

Historical and Legal Research of the Bases of Organization and Functioning of Judicial Authority in Crimea in the Composition of the Russian Empire (late XVIII – Beginning of XX Centuries)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
M. S. Kiyan ◽  
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T. V. Khutko
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
The State ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Judicial Reform ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
High Level

In the Russian Federation, one of the priority vectors of the development of the state is to improve the quality of justice, the guarantee of which is the effective judicial system. For the most optimal mode of functioning of the judicial system, an understanding of the main trends in its development is necessary, which requires a high level of generalization and scientific potentiation of the foundations of the organization and functioning of the judiciary, and is possible only if all previous stages of its development are analyzed. The main objective of the study: 1) determine the features of the development of the judicial policy of the Russian Empire in the regions, in particular in the Crimea; 2) to trace the evolution of the judicial system in the Crimea during its stay in the Russian Empire. When writing the work, methods of scientific research were used: dialectical, historical-legal, formal-legal, systemic, comparative-legal, historical periodization, diachronous, institutional-legal. The main results and conclusions of the study can be defined as: 1) judicial reform was a priority in the state legal policy of the Russian Empire at the end of the XVIII – early XX centuries; 2) the author's periodization of the reform of the judicial system in the Crimea. Such a consistent consideration of the organization and functioning of the judiciary allows for its comprehensive study as a historical phenomenon with its own genesis of organization and activity The article is of high scientific value, since it is the first generalizing study in the historical and legal literature devoted to the problems of the formation, development and modernization of the judiciary in Crimea as part of the Russian Empire (1783–1917), in which it was first used that were not previously included in the scientific circulation Sources of the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Development of National Procedural Law in the Second Half of the XIX – Early XX Centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-164
Author(s):  
Д. В. Слинько ◽  
Л. І. Калєніченко
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Judicial Reform ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Civil Proceedings ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Administrative Proceedings ◽  
Substantive Law

The authors have studied one of the current historical and legal problems concerning the development of procedural law in the Ukrainian lands, which were part of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires in the second half of the XIX – early XX centuries. Based on the analysis of scientific literature and relevant regulatory material, it has been noted that the beginning of the reform of procedural legislation of the Russian Empire can be considered the introduction of the institution of forensic investigators by the imperial decree in June 1860. Thus, the preliminary investigation was separated from the police, and investigators were part of the staff of the judicial department. The next stage was the judicial reform of 1864. As a result of the reform, the judicial system and procedural law were completely changed. Substantive law was also partially amended under that influence; there was the separation of criminal proceedings from the civil one; procedural norms of administrative justice began to be formed in the Ukrainian lands during that period, and a new branch of knowledge within legal science emerged, which was aimed at searching for the essence and nature of procedural law. The development of procedural law in the Ukrainian lands, which were part of the Austrian and, since 1868, the Austro-Hungarian Empires, was characterized by the obsolescence and imperfection of procedural legislation and its focus on the establishment of imperial positions. At the same time, it is possible to state its certain democracy and succession. It has been concluded that national procedural law during that period was characterized by the preservation and strengthening of certain features of the medieval process (secular nature, rationality, phasing), by the separation of procedural law from the substantive, by the formation of procedural branches of law, by the codification of procedural legislation, by the separation of administrative proceedings from criminal and civil proceedings; the functions and competence of the authorities and their officials were differentiated.

scholarly journals Orchids in the era of Grigory von Langsdorff: two golden decades in the history of the botanical exploration of Brazil (1813–1830)

Lankesteriana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Ossenbach
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire

The figure of Grigory Ivanovich von Langsdorff was largely neglected by the scientific literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. German-born von Langsdorff was consul of the Russian Empire in Rio de Janeiro. His activities in Brazil from 1813 to 1830 are here described, a time during which his house in Rio and his famous fazenda Mandiocca became the center of scientific activity and the point of attraction for European travellers and naturalists who flocked to Brazil after its frontiers were opened to foreigners in 1808 by King Joao VI of Portugal. Wilhelm Freyreiss, Friedrich Sellow, Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, Augustin de Saint-Hilaire, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Baptist von Spix, Giuseppe Raddi, Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl, and Ludwig Riedel are among those who explored Brazil impulsed by von Langsdorff and often under his patronage. Their journeys in Brazil culminated in von Langsdorff’s ill-fated expedition to the interior of Brazil between 1822 and 1829, while the epilogue is marked by Langsdorff’s return to Germany, in a state of insanity and no longer able to publish the results of his life-long scientific efforts.

scholarly journals Tatarzy Krymscy - naród czy mniejszość etniczna: w poszukiwaniu nowej drogi odrodzenia narodowego

2016 ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Swietlana Czerwonnaja
Keyword(s):  
Russian Empire ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
Difficult Condition ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
High Level ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Regional Character

The Crimean tatars – a nation or an ethnic minority: in search for a new way of national revivalThe Russian Empire, increasing its aggressive expansion to all sites of the world, conquered the Crimean Khanate in 1783. This Khanate was the only one of its kind link connecting the European (Christian) and Asian (Islamic) civilizations. It was the state of high multilateral culture with strong – in the beginning of the New Times – secularism trends and democratic bases of social and political life (there was no serfdom, the equality of rights existed on the high level, tolerance with regard to religious and ethnic communities dominated, and these communities-minorities co-existed and developed on the Peninsula – in the Tatar Crimea – in the peace). Within the framework of the Crimean Khanate the process of ethnic genesis of the Crimean-Tatar people as an ethnic-cultural subject was completed, although many differences of tribal origin and regional character remained within this unity and expressed in the heterogeneity of the anthropologic types, of every-day life’s tradition and of dialects spread between the Tatars living in the North Crimean steppe, in the Mountains (highland) and on the South Coast of the Peninsula. That ethnic community (Crimean Tatars) was a nation in the modern meaning of this word, it had its own state, intellectual elite, high organization and culture. The destruction of this state-nation by the Russian Empire and the systematic genocide if the Crimean Tatars during next two centuries, reached its culmination in the act of the total deportation on May 18th 1944, are the treasons and international-large crimes. The annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation on March 2014 (its tearing away from the Ukrainian state and military occupation) means the continuation of this felonious policy, which the Crimean Tatars resist, displaying bravery in the very difficult condition. Tatarzy Krymscy - naród czy mniejszość etniczna: w poszukiwaniu nowej drogi odrodzenia narodowegoW 1783 roku imperium rosyjskie, którego agresywna ekspansja gwałtownie wrastała, zaanektowało Chaństwo Krymskie, które było jedynym w swoim rodzaju ogniwem łączącym cywilizacje europejską (chrześcijańską) i azjatycką (islamską), państwem o wysokiej kulturze z mocnymi trendami sekularyzacji i demokratycznymi podstawami (nie było tutaj ustroju pańszczyźnianego, na wysokim poziomie znajdowało się społeczne równouprawnienie, panowała tolerancja wobec różnych wspólnot religijnych i etnicznych, które w pokojowy sposób współistniały i rozwijały się na tatarskim Krymie). W ramach tego państwa dobiegł końca wielowiekowy proces etnogenezy narodu krymsko-tatarskiego, jako całokształtu etniczno-kulturowego (chociaż wewnątrz tej jednolitej wspólnoty długi czas zachowały się rozróżnienia plemienne i regionalne, co przejawiało się w różnorakości typów antropologicznych, tradycji życia codziennego, w dialektach międzystepowych zamieszkałych w górach (górskimi) i na południowym wybrzeżu Półwyspu (południowo-nadbrzeżnymi) Tatarów). Ta wspólnota była narodem (we współczesnym znaczeniu tego pojęcia), posiadającym własne państwo i wysoką kulturę, Zniszczenie tego państwa-narodu przez imperium rosyjskie i systematyczne ludobójstwo Tatarów krymskich, które osiągnęło szczyt w akcji totalnej deportacji 18 maja 1944 roku, pozostaje przestępstwem na skalę międzynarodową. Kontynuacją tej przestępczej polityki jest dokonana w marcu 2014 roku powtórna aneksja Krymu, wobec której Tatarzy krymscy stawiają stanowczy opór.

scholarly journals Harvest, railway transportation and banking services to the agriculture in the Central Black Earth Region of the Russian Empire in the late 19 th century

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Sofya A. Salomatina ◽  
Vladislav Y. Ivakin
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Railway Transportation ◽  
Yield Data ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
High Level ◽  
Agricultural Regions

This paper studies the influence of the service sector (joint-stock commercial banks and railways) on the economic development of agricultural regions within the Russian empire in the second half of the 19th century, using the case of the Central Black Earth region. The study compares yield data for major crops, railroad transportation of grain and flour, and the banking services to agriculture producers and traders. Statistical analysis of this data disproves the prevailing historical economic viewpoint which claims that agricultural exports were not accompanied by bank support, because it did not take into account a rather high level of infrastructure around the Riga–Oryol railway trunk, which was formed back in the 1870s. The exports in this region consisted of the prior year’s harvest, which indicated a rather developed system of crop storage and accompanying banking services. The study reveals a dramatic growth in the services sector throughout the Central Black Earth region during the 1890s. In previous decades, this system could not be extended to the entire region due to a long history of unfavorable conditions in the agricultural and banking sectors. Thus, banking services in Russia at the end of the 19th century were provided to not just industrial and stock markets customers. In those regions dominated by agriculture, services infrastructure had been oriented towards this sector.

scholarly journals Cities of modern Luhansk region in the XIX – early XX centuries (on statistical materials)

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-188
Author(s):  
Olha Zabudkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Economic Specialization ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
Official Status

The article analyzes the situation of cities in the modern Luhansk region during the XIX – early XX centuries on the basis of statistical materials collected and published by the official bodies of the Russian Empire. The main attention is paid to the cities that had the official status – Starobilsk, Slavyanoserbsk, Belovodsk, Luhansk. At the same time, the statistics included the largest rural settlements of the region, information about which is also taken into account in the work. The population dynamics of cities and the largest settlements of the region is studied. The issue of population density in urban settlements is considered separately are given. Another indicator under consideration is social composition and employment. Much of the article is devoted to the analysis of the economic condition of cities according to statistical collections. Quantitative indicators of industrial development, handicrafts, fair, market and stationary trade are analyzed. It was found that by the beginning of the twentieth century. each city had its own economic specialization – industrial (Luhansk), trade (Starobilsk), craft (Belovodsk). In addition, some rural settlements were no less important as economic centers than cities (Belovodsk, Svatova Luchka). It turned out that all this affected the amount of income that cities received, which was studied. It is concluded that the development of the cities of Luhansk region was embedded in the general trends in the Russian Empire, but from the second half of the nineteenth century. Under the influence of industrial development Luhansk gradually occupied a central place in the region, which, having a significant peasant component, combined the features of old rural and new industrial settlements.

scholarly journals East Slavic historiography on the valuation of land in the Belarusian provinces in the second half of the XIX – early XX century

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-313
Author(s):  
E. A. Brukhanchik
Keyword(s):  
Market Value ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Economic Methods ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Land Bank ◽  
Soviet Historiography

The article is devoted to the analysis of the main approaches to estimating the value of land plots in the Russian Empire of the second half of the XIX – beginning of the XX century. Eastern Slavic historiography of the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern period. The objectives of the article are to determine the average market value of land in the provinces and compare it with the size of redemption payments, identify typical conditions for the implementation of the agrarian reform of 1861 for the Belarusian provinces, compare the approaches of representatives of Eastern Slavic historiography to the redemption operation and activities of the Peasant and Noble Land banks, analyze the factors that form value of land sold through the Peasant Land Bank. The article reflects the sharply negative assessments of the peasant reform of 1861 and the activities of the Peasant Land Bank in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet historiography. In this case, attention is drawn to the more favorable conditions for the redemption operation for the peasants of the Belarusian provinces, reducing the cost of peasant holdings and bringing them closer to the market value of land. Modern historiography stands in solidarity with the conclusions of the peasants’ repeated overpayment of the cost of their liberation, but connects this with the banking crisis, which predetermined the high cost of redemption. At the same time, modern researchers, on the basis of mathematical and economic methods, revised approaches to assessing the activities of the Peasant and Noble Land Banks, recognizing their role in mobilizing land ownership and solving the issue of peasant land shortages.

scholarly journals The Pension System in the Russian Empire in the 19th – Early 20th Centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 018-023
Author(s):  
A. V. Lapaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Pension Insurance ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Right ◽  
State Pension ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The article examines the formation and development of the pension system of the Russian Empire in the 19th – early 20th centuries. It is proved that the Charter on pensions and lump-sum benefits for state (military and civil) employees in 1827 laid the foundation for an integral pension system, which combined such types of state security as pension and grant. It was established that one of the positive measures aimed at creating favorable conditions for the development of the pension system was the introduction of special preferential conditions for certain categories of civil servants, concerning the reduction of the length of service for the acquisition of the right to a pension. It is determined that in parallel with the state pension system, a non-government pension system for civil servants was developed, which operated on the basis of two models – the emerita pension (insurance-based) and the savings-support pension (account-based).

scholarly journals The State Administration of the German Colonies of the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Sinko ◽  
Vladimir Shaidurov ◽  
Asiyat Guseynova
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Impact

German migration to the Russian state has a long history. Between the sixteenth and the mid-eighteenth centuries, prisoners of war captured during the Livonian War (1558–1583) and persons invited to Russia by the Muscovite grand princes and Russian tsars (Ivan III, Ivan IV, Peter I, etc.) settled in Russia. In the second half of the eighteenth century, the resettlement of Germans became part of the state’s migration policy, which determined the fate of one of the empire’s most numerous ethnic minorities for many decades. This article deals with changes to the administration of German rural settlements in the Russian Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century. This period was important for the legal status of foreign colonies due to the adoption of the Statute of Colonies of 1857, which provided detailed regulation of the rights and obligations of foreign colonists. One of the tasks of the political, economic, and social reforms of the 1860s–1870s was the unification of the rural population and the elimination of the social exclusivity of foreign colonists. A pragmatic approach regarding the use of colonists for the settlement and rational development of empty territories brought positive results for these regions. The analysis here makes it possible to consider the measures taken by the Russian authorities to streamline the legislation, norms, and rules for the economic, administrative, everyday, and spiritual life of German colonists. With the help of comparative analysis, the authors study changes in state policy towards foreign colonists and the abolition of privileges as a result of the adoption of the law “the supremely approved rules about the management of settler-owners (former colonists)” on 4 June 1871. The study makes it possible to assess the impact of large-scale administrative changes on various spheres of life and activities of the German colonists, a separate category of the Russian Empire’s population.

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