The Privy Chancellery Archive (1701–1718): the Problems of Reconstruction

Student: Nazarov Aleksandr

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The Privy Chancellery was a goverment body dealing with state financial control, it was created by Peter I and played an important role in supervision of administrative reforms in the 1700s-1710s, the study of its activities is important for understanding the emergence of functioning of the financial control system in Russia. After the disbandment of this institution in 1718, the documents of the Privy Chancellery were lost from view and separated, so this situation created limitations for historians during the source study. The aim of the research was to reconstruct the documentary complex of the Privy Chancellery and to study its information potential. As a result of this work, this complex was reconstructed, and on the basis of this, an analysis of acivities of the Privy Chancellery in the system of public administration was made.

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