Russification of the Northwestern region in the 1860s: features of imperial politics aimed at ensuring the region security
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2023-4-36-43
Abstract
Aim. To consider the Russification policy of the western outskirts of the Russian Empire in the 1860s on the example of the activities of the Governor-General of the Northwestern Region Mikhail Nikolayevich Muraviev.
Methodology. The analysis of both the published and unpublished documents from the funds of the State Archive of the Russian Federation was carried out. The work uses retrospective, problemchronological, historical-comparative, as well as general scientific research methods.
Results. It has been proven that the entire set of administrative and political measures taken by Governor- General M. N. Muravyov in the Russification of the region was effective and was subsequently adopted by the tsarist administration in the management of the empire outskirts.
Research implications. The author, examining the policy of the administration of M.N. Muravyov, for the first time analyzed this area of activity in the general outline of the tsarist policy on the Russification of the North-Western region and ensuring public security in the region. The present work, based on archival sources, memoirs of the contemporaries of events and a number of modern researchers of the problem, deepens the information available in Russian historiography on this issue
About the Author
S. V. Ananyev
Main Center for Scientific Research of the Federal Service
of the National Guard of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey V. Ananyev – Cand. Sci. (History), Assoc. Prof., Senior Officer, Scientific Department
ul. Krasnokazarmennaya 9A, Moscow 111250
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