Abstract
In the Late Russian Empire the gap between the official legal status of the Jewish population and its real position in the society increased steadily. As a result, legal as well as extra-legal and illegal practices of interaction between the authorities and the ethno-confessional minority were formed. In the course of investigation of the “assassination attempt upon the Governor-General” in Irkutsk in 1905, conducted by the Gendarme Directorate, the system of “patronage trade” was revealed, linking the Jewish population and the city police. This plot is analyzed from the social practice perspective. The author argues that the expanding range of practices of interaction between the authorities and the Jewish population created opportunities for the preservation and development of the community in the conditions of the late imperial transitional society.
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