Chikhladze, L.T. Specific features of regional management at the Russian Empire

Abstract: The analysis of historical and legal materials allows to make a conclusion that in reality the history of the Russian state is a chain of reforms of regional management. In the XIX century Russia was a unitary state with more-or-less unified government. At the same time the specific feature of the Russian Empire had been the tendency for rather little ethnical assimilation, which allowed for preservation of local traditional municipal bodies and identities of peoples in the regions of the Empire…