Donosy w Kancelarii Gubernatora Lubelskiego w ostatnich dekadach XIX w.

Abstract

In its task of controlling the local population, the local Russian administration in the Kingdom of Poland gathered information from both official and unofficial sources. An important source, from the point of view of the Russian authorities, was denunciations. They provided information about various individuals and phenomena occurring outside the knowledge of the administrative apparatus. The denunciations finding their way into the hands of the Governor of Lublin concerned many issues of everyday life, from the functioning of state administration and its functionaries to crime and morality. Many of them were not left without some sort of response from the authorities — sometimes this was the way in which citizens drew the authorities’ attention to their problems, grievances etc., including those caused by representatives of the state administration.