| Summary: | Background. The interaction of the local administrative apparatus heads has
a decisive influence on the government policy effectiveness in the regions. The study of the historical experience of official relations allows us to determine their impact on the effectiveness
of the state administration work on the ground in various periods of the development
of our country. The purpose of the study is to identify the factors that determined
the specifics of the relationship between the top officials of the provincial administration at
the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. Materials and methods. The tasks set in the work are
solved by applying the comparative historical method to the analysis of documents extracted
from the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive, as well as memoirs of the provincial
administration heads published in Russia and abroad. Results. The materials of administrative
correspondence on personnel issues from archival funds and memoirs of individual
representatives of the provincial administration, as well as publications concerning
the problems of relations within the provincial administrative apparatus in this era, are studied.
The factors that had a significant impact on the official relations of governors and
vice-governors were identified. Conclusions. The administrative system of late imperial
Russia formed the conditions under which governors and vice-governors turned from colleagues
into rivals, which negatively affected the work of the entire local apparatus. A characteristic
feature of their relations was tension, the overcoming of which largely depended
on the combination of circumstances and the goodwill of the top officials of the provincial
administration.
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