Michael Speransky. Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772–1839 - Marc Raeff

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 229 active years his contacts with local administration had been indirect, only through the officia ...

230 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES for their "liberties," i.e. freedom from compulsory state service. They succeeded in 1762, and ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 231 Empire as well as develop a greater sense of responsibility and pur- poseful activity in those ...

232 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES At the beginning of the 19th century, therefore, provincial life was culturally drab, socially ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 233 estates and left their district as rarely as possible. If forced to take up service, they usual ...

234 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES functions, the nobleman would shake off his usual passivity, for these were matters that affect ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 235 miles?" 1 On the shoulders of this unsuitable individual rested many different matters and the ...

236 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES officials, important or responsible tasks. They could only copy papers and file reports. As a r ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 237 district of Penza had rebelled against their lords. Speransky did not hesitate to use military ...

238 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES down to 200,000, and when Speransky left Penza, the books had been balanced. This he accomplish ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 239 convince [men] that institutions, even the best. can run by themselves; on the contrary, everyt ...

240 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES ensuite et graduellement vous viendrez a la question de la liberte civile, c'est a dire la libe ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 241 inquired about their past studles, their families, their interests, needs, and desires. After a ...

242 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES coincided with Speransky's own feelings. Of course, there is no denying that in many instances ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 243 and even think of introducing it next summer in my own village, which has no woods but is bless ...

244 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES which he did not intend to carry out, we do not know for sure. There is strong indication that ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 245 fully greeted by the Siberian population in the expectation of a better administration. But it ...

246 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES aries on the one hand, and the physiocratic belief in the primary value of agriculture and trad ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 247 As a result, some of the smaller and more backward tribes, isolated and subjected to disease an ...

248 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES administration to the changed conditions, in regard to both the Rus- sian and native population ...