Appendix. Police in the Borderlands
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

Police in the Borderlands in the 1795 partition of Poland.Although subordinate to a single Governor-General, the three had separate legal and administrative systems.Each, however, was dominated by ethnic German noblemen organized in knightly corporations.The Baltic Germans were widely seen as more civilized and polished than the Russian gentry.As a result, they often held important positions in the Imperial bureaucracy. 1 Benkendorf, Chief of the Third Section under Nicholas I, and Reutern, the