STATE ADMINISTRATION OF THE YARENSKY UYEZD IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE NEW TIME (LATE XVII - FIRST HALF OF XVIII)

Abstract

The article deals with the state administration of the Yarensky uyezd in the transition period from the Middle Ages to the New time: the end of the 17 - first half of the 18 century. At that time, the management system of Prikazes was being replaced by the collegiate one, which had to radically change the civil service. By conducting it, the central government complicated management tasks, increased the flow of documents, regulated the activities of lower levels of the apparatus, etc. However, due to a number of circumstances, there were no changes. The reason was the unwillingness of the management apparatus, both local and volost, to comply with the rules established by the beginning of the 18 century. The lack of systematic training of clerical personnel, the general low educational level of officialdom led to the fact that clerical work did not depend on what document an official worked with (personal, judicial, personnel, and others), but on the duration of clerk’s stay in the Prikaz service. The central government was not ready to organize the transformation of the entire civil service and was not ready to implement new principles, which led to the inability to ensure the effective functioning of the government. The Prikaz-voivodeship system remained the basis of the administrative structure of the empire, existing and interacting with the collegiate system represented in the higher administrative bodies. For Yarensky Uyezd, the period of the end of the 17 - first half of the 18 century can be defined as the period of interaction and mutual influence of the Prikaz-based and collegiate principles of the organization of power. The modernization impulses coming from the center were still very weak, but they subsequently led to the formation of new management models in the territory under study.