Archive of the Headquarters of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes

Abstract

The article, based on unpublished sources, shows the process of organizing the archive of the Headquarters of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes (HSCG), which consisted of several stages. At the first stage, the archive was not actually separated from the office work and had no special manager, which caused the disorder and led to the need for regular full-scale inspections. A new stage in the life of the archive was outlined with the establishment of the post of the chief of the archive of the HSCG, the first of which in 1853 was the titular adviser DS. Fedorov. Over time, in 1874, the post was abolished, but the archive was constantly under authority of the Secretary of the Corps Headquarters, who was also in charge of the Chancery. Until 1899, the post of Secretary of the Staff was occupied by civil servants (titular adviser Bragin, SZ Nesterov, LO Natkovsky). Subsequently, this position was taken exclusively by the officers of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes (NP Starov, AN Vaulin, DA Pravikov, LK Bankovsky, VN Likhachevsky). Most of these officers considered the post of secretary of the headquarters as temporary and looked for opportunities to head any gendarme department, and therefore the state of the archive could not be called exemplary.