The Tsar's Viceroys
Russian Provincial Governors in the Last Years of the Empire
Wrestling with a would-be assassin, inspecting the toilets in a rural prison, responding to a challenge from his mistress's enraged husband-all these matters could be part of a Russian provincial governor's day. More often, he was entangled in administrative routine, troubled by a steady flow of orders from St. Petersburg, and tormented by complaints from local powerbrokers. What was His Excellency-the tsar's viceroy-a bureaucratic flunky or a harassed politician?Drawing on a broad range of materials in Soviet and Western archives, Richard Robbins here gives us a richly textured portrait of the Russian provincial governors in the last years o…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-4309-2
- EAN: 9781501743092
- Produktnummer: 31598190
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 8 b&w halftones, 1 map
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Richard G. Robbins
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