О загадочной корпоративной институции (украинские губернии Российской империи)
Journal: Textus et Studia
Year: 2024

The article deals with the noble guardianship, an estate institution founded by Catherine II, which successfully existed until 1917. The purpose of the article is to reveal its functions and find out the measures taken by the state to modernize it. Guardianship became a flexible means of controlling the status of the estates of the privileged class. The state strove for estates with the loss of their owner to remain in the family and under the control of the guardianship and noble corporation, m