TSU historian defended the first doctoral in Russia about Siberian gendarmes

Associate Professor of the Faculty of Historical and Political Sciences of the Tomsk State University (TSU) Peter Rumyantsev defended the first doctoral dissertation in Russia on the role of Siberian gendarmes in strengthening the public administration and life system.

According to RIA Tomsk, citing the press service of the university, the Siberian Gendarme District in the imperial government system was the object of study of the associate professor. He appeared in Russia the penultimate and “had its own characteristics due to the fact that Siberia was a place of exile.”

According to the historian, the Siberian gendarme district created to control the exiled Decembrists and local officials. The latter, as the large -scale audit of Mikhail Speransky showed, “excessively abused their power.” In addition, the gendarmes were intermediaries in conflicts between workers and business, investigated crimes and monitored the development of the education system.

“It should also be noted that the gendarmes were supervised by gold industry. This is a unique example. There was no longer such an incident that it was precisely for the whole industry in the economy that the gendarme employees specially sent for this were supervised. This emphasizes how important the industry in the country's economy was the Siberian gold industry, ”said Rumyantsev.

The historian said that the gendarmes also fought bribery and abuse of power. The above areas, according to Rumyantsev, are often not noticed by researchers. Historians, as a rule, study the gendarmerie as a political investigation authority, whose duty was to protect the autocracy. “