Chikhladze, L.T. Specific features of regional management in the Russian Empire.

Abstract: Analysis of historical and legal materials on this issue allows one to say that the history of the Russian state has always included constant reforms of regional management. In particular, the Russian Empire of XIX century was a unitary state with more or less unified centralized government system, but at the same time there was little effort towards the ethnical assimilation of the outskirts, and the traditional government and self-government institutions were preserved, which allowed the peoples to preserve their identity.