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SOURCES

G e n era I mat e ria I : Bychkov (ed.) , P Pamiat' grata Speranskogo

has several short papers and letters by Speransky on the peasant question; Speranskii:

"Zapiska 0 krepostnom prave v komitet 6go dekabria 1826 g.," (N. A. Miliutin ed.) in

P. Bartenev, Deviatnadtsatyi vek - istoricheskii sbornik, vol. II (Moscow 1872) pp.

159-165; the same under the title "Zapiska 0 krepostnykh" in Arkhiv istoricheskikh

i prakticheskikh svedenii (1859), vol. III, section I, pp. 1-15 (it is an abbreviated

form of Speransky's paper more fully summarized by Miliutin); "Istoricheskoe

obozrenie izmenenii v prave pozemel'noi sobstvennosti i v sostoianii krest'ian,"

Appendix VII to "0 zakonakh - Besedy grafa M. M. Speranskogo s E. I. Vysochestvom

Gosudarem Naslednikom ... " in Sbornik IRIO, XXX, (St. Pbg. 1881) pp. 450-466;

"Vvedenie k namestnicheskomu (oblastnomu) uchrezhdeniiu (1821)," in Materialy ...

komissii 0 preobrazovanii gubernskikh i uezdnykh uchrezhdenii, I (1870) pp. 68-85;

"Proekt uchrezhdeniia oblastnogo upravleniia (1822)," ibid., I, pp. 86-112; "Proekt

uchrezhdeniia upravleniia gubernii." Sbornik IRIO, vol. 90 (St. Pbg. 1894), pp.

274-358; "Zamechaniia 0 gubernskikh uchrezdeniiakh," Arkhiv istoricheskikh i

praktic;heskikh svedenii, (1859), No.4, pp. 92-104. Further material is found in

various letters of Speransky's to Count Kochubei in Russkaia Starina vol. III (July

1902). pp. 51-59 and to Senator A. Stolypin in Russkii Arkhiv, (1869), pp. 1682-

1708, 1966-1984, and (1870). pp. 1125-1156.

o nth e pea san t pro b I e m see: N. M. Druzhinin. Gosudarstvennye krest'iane

i retorma P. D. Kiseleva, vol. I (Moscow·Leningrad 1946); V. I. Semevskii, Krest'-

ianskii vopros v Rossii v XVIII i pervoi polovine XIX veka, 2 vols .• St. Pbg. 1888.

The titles on the history of Russian economic thought and conditions cited in

Chapter 4 are relevant and often quite useful in this connection.

On R u s s ian 10 c a I a d min i s t rat ion, see: I. Blinov, Gubernatory -

istoriko-iuridicheskii ocherk, St. Pbg. 1905; I. I. Ditiatin, Ustroistvo i upravlenie
gorodov Rossii, St. Pbg. 1875; A. D. Gradovskii, "Istoricheskii ocherk uchrezhdeniia
general-gubernatorov v Rossii," Russkii Vestnik, (Nov.-Dec. 1869). pp. 5-31 and 396-
413; V. V. Ivanovskii. "Administrativnoe ustroistvo nashikh okrain," Uchenye Zapiski
Kazanskogo Universiteta, vol. 58, No.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1891), pp. 27-70.

o nth ere i g n 0 f N i c hoI a s I, see: M. Polievktov, Nikolai I - biogratiia i

obzor tsarstvovaniia, (Moscow 1918); A. E. Presniakov. Apogei samoderzhaviia -

Nikolai I, (Leningrad 1925); Th. Schiemann, Geschichte Russlands unter Kaiser

Nikolaus I. 4 "ols., (Berlin 1908-1913); N. Shil'der, Imperator Nikolai I, 2 vols., (St.

Pbg. 1903); C. de Grunwald, La vie de Nicolas Ier, (Paris 1946).