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In article S.Yu. Vitte’s political activity within the First Russian revolution is considered. Communication S.Ya. Vitte with adventurer G.A. Gapon archival sources from funds of the Saratov archive. The unknown material is submitted to attention of readers earlier.

This article, based on the wide circle of materials which partly were published before and partly put in use first time, deals with a tragic destiny of professor S. N. Chernov (1887–1941). He was one of the first “bourgeois” intellectuals who found himself in the firing line of the communist party and bureaucracy in 1928 because of his highest human and moral merits. Distinguished scientist and pedagogue was unfairly dismissed from his educational work and violently banish from the university as a result of the fierce persecution.

The article deals with traditional in Russian historiography issue of relationships of Decembrists with the Russian emperor in the context of the myth of secret societies. Alexander I was aware of the existence of secret societies in Russia and considered them as part of a European wide union. Besides, he was convinced that they were supported by some great officers of state and commanders in the empire. Consequently, Alexander I thought it impossible to struggle with world wide conspiracy organizations, which had taken deep root in his state.

This article is about Russian political agent activity N. V. Tcharykow in Bokhara Emirate. We have considered the question in following aspects: Tcharykow’s assistance to geopolitical and economic interests of Russian empire in opposite to Great Britain, Tcharykow’s taking part in railway and post road building and in humane activities like zindane closing, abolition of slavery, «dry law» introducing and others.

The article is about the course of life of a Guards officer, a participant of the Patriotic War of 1812, foreign campaigns of 1813–1814 who was falsely accused of taking part in the activities of secret Decembrists’ societies and undeservedly punished for that.

In this paper the author considers the process of establishing the system of counteractions against revolutionary terrorism in Russia of the XIXth – the beginning of the XXth century. The development of terror practices as one of the branches of conspiracy activities was far ahead the developing of the police structure that was still unable to fight against terrorism. The methods of organizing personal security service of the top state officials being analyzed, the reasons of their poor effectiveness are shown.

The Article is dedicated to unknown page to histories of the lawsuit on sailor – a participant of Sevastopol rebellion of 1905. In article is analysed tactics of protection defendant sailor, organizer and leader which has been the leader to synergies «Molodaya Advokatura» N.K. Muraviev. At emphases of the author concentrated on original acceptance of protection, for the first time aplying Muraviev’evym and his colleague.

Статья посвящена малоизученной странице истории судебного процесса над матросами – участниками Севастопольского восстания 1905 г. В статье анализируется тактика защиты подсудимых матросов, организатором и руководителем которой выступил лидер синергии «молодая адвокатура» Н. К. Муравьев. При этом особое внимание автора сосредоточено на оригинальном приеме защиты, впервые примененном Муравьевым и его коллегами.

The social and economic situation in the black-soil region of Russia at the times of World War I is the main object of the article. The author analyses the activities of the central and local administrations, especially their efforts to protect internal markets of consumer goods. The article shows that the Russian peasantry produced sufficient quantities of grain and could supply army and industrial centers. The political stability was ruined because of concrete mistakes of imperial and local authorities. 

In the article the role of the institutions of zemsky government in the formation of the civil society in Russia in the second half of the XIX th century is discussed. The participation of representatives of various classes of society in the work of zemstvo, appointment of the members of the zemstvo by election and the possibility to show the initiative in solving social problems allowed zemstvo to become the core of the developing civil society.