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

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 249 same end he used his right to license direct export of grain to China and to contract grain pur ...

250 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES China was liberalized by lowering export requirements. But free com- petition could not be effe ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 251 ness. But as they were open to bribery and corruption (which Treskin himself apparently was not ...

252 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES convinced that left alone, the merchants would develop more compe- tition once the old-time pri ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 253 of learning from you orally the true condition of this important region and of basing on solid ...

254 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES man could not refrain from shouting to Speransky: "Batiushka, what are you doing? Don't you kno ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 255 small and even less influential than in Europe. There remained the merchant class, the so-calle ...

256 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES He aided expeditions to explore the region by all the means at his disposal. In reward for his ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 257 only for Siberia proper. Speransky thought that even before Russia had developed her own indust ...

258 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES and organization were no match for the Americans. In a more limited way, he displayed the same ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 259 ordinates was not forgotten. In a sense, though on a much smaller scale, Speransky's role in fo ...

260 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES They justified Count Uvarov's saying that the history of Siberia could be divided into two peri ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 261 confused relations between various administrative bodies; 4 to give the local institutions an o ...

262 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES decided on a solution which had the merit of being relatively simple and of having some histori ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 263 the Council has no means of implementing its decisions.^1 Though the autonomy of the Main Admin ...

264 GOVERNING R.USSIJ\.'S PR.OVINCES Speransky, as we have noted, was very much aware of the special conditions of Siberia and o ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES 265 local affairs.^1 A District Treasury Administration and a District Court completed the picture. ...

266 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES tice remained under the control of the Governor General and his aides. 1 The distinctive featur ...

GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVJNCES 267 a Rechtsstaat. The basis for clear and orderly governmental proced- ure had at last been establ ...

268 GOVERNING RUSSIA'S PROVINCES result, not much time passed ere several new markets and fairs opened up in Siberia and develop ...