Служащие канцелярии попечителя СанктПетербургского учебного округа в период правления Александра III: опыт просопографического исследования
Officials in the office of the trustee of the St. Petersburg educational district during the reign of Alexander III: Experience of prosopographic research

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to an insufficiently studied topic in the history of education: drawing up a collective portrait of the employees of the office of the trustee of the educational district. Currently, there is no research on how the work of the office and the trustee of the St. Petersburg educational district was organised. Also, in the general history of the study of Russian bureaucracy, there are few works devoted to employees of the office of trustees, a department of the Ministry of Public Education. The research was made on the example of the office of the trustee of the capital’s educational district during the reign of Alexander III, based on comparative-historical, typological and systemic methods of studying historical patterns. However the main research method was prosopographic: reveals the estate origin of employees and their level of education; the financial situation and their service life are considered. The main conclusion of the article is that the office clerk was a person with higher education, who had worked in an institution for at least ten years, who had had several jobs and state awards. This study can bring us closer to the real position of the “local” bureaucracy and its portrait in the history of Russia.

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