THE JUDICIAL POWERS OF THE HEAD OF THE CENTER OF CAUCASIAN LINE IN THE 1830-1850s

This article is about the dynamics of the judicial powers of the head of the Center for the Caucasian Line in the 30s – 50s. XIX century. A general overview of the activities of the head of the Caucasian Line Center is given. The study is based on an analysis of the administrative documents of the Caucasian Line Center and subordinate organizations. Attention is drawn to his order of interaction with subordinate institutions of local judicial and administrative control. The features of the administration of justice in the process of interaction between representatives of the local population and the Caucasian line command are analyzed. The article analyzes the set of judicial powers of the head of the Center, the nature of the cases subject to his jurisdiction. The judicial functions of the head of the Center are considered within the framework of the judicial and administrative system that took shape in the Caucasus in the second quarter of the 19th century. Attention is drawn to the fact that the granting of judicial powers to representatives of executive structures was characteristic of most of the national outskirts of the empire and corresponded to the level of development of the Russian legal culture of that time. Attention is drawn to its role in regulating the activities of the Provisional Kabardinsky Court, the judicial functions performed in the framework of interaction with bailiff institutions, the role of the head of the Center in regulating the activities of traditional bodies of administration of justice both among the indigenous population of the Central Caucasus and among migrants (residents of the Aleksandrovskaya German settlement and the Nalchik mountain Jewish colony). It is concluded that the execution of a number of judicial powers by the head of the Caucasian Line Center was explained by the low efficiency of the institutions of local judicial and administrative control, the difficulties of adapting local residents to the Russian presence in the region, and the search for optimal management models.

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