John P. LeDonne has mastered thefield of eighteenth-century administration:Absolutism
and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700– 1825 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991),Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of
Absolutism, 1762– 1796 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984) and“The Terri-
torial Reform of the Russian Empire 1775–1796. I: Central Russia, 1775–84,”Cahiers
du monde russe et soviétique23, no. 2 (1982): 147–85 and“II: The Borderlands,
1777 – 96,”Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique24, no. 4 (1983): 411–57. See also Robert
D. Givens,“Eighteenth-Century Nobiliary Career Patterns and Provincial Government,”
in Walter M. Pintner and Don Karl Rowney, eds.,Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucrat-
ization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century(Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 1980), 106–29; Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter,
Russia’s Age of Serfdom 1649– 1861 (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub., 2008); Roderick
E. McGrew,Paul I of Russia, 1754– 1801 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
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