Abstract

This paper discusses the key issue of the system management of the transition period from the time of the Interregnum of Moscow State to the formation of the government of the new sovereign, Mikhail Romanov. Biographies of deacons and scribes of the closing period of Troubles are restored according to individual mentions, mainly in the act material and documents of official records management. Using the method of prosopography, the authors have systematized biographical information of individuals and analyzed collective portrait of employees, which allowed to reveal the general state policy in relation to the managers of higher and middle level of the central administrative apparatus. As a result of the study, it was possible to establish that 36 from 73 persons, fixed in the service in the boyar government of Moscow and under Sigismund III continued to work in the new government of Mikhail Romanov. From the 9 Duma clerks 3 people, from 37 clerks 22 people, from 27 junior employees at Mikhail Romanov 11 people. The removal touched, mainly, the Duma clerks. Most of middle-level employees like professional managers were not suspended from work for political reasons, which correlates with the general trend of the Trouble Time at the beginning of the 17 century. 60% of middle-level employees of Boyar government, which previously supported the power of Sigismund III, continued their work in the new government of Mikhail Romanov.

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  • From the end of the XV century Livonia became the object of close attention of the sovereigns As known, since the end of the XV century Livonia became the object of close attention of the sovereigns of Denmark, Sweden, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Crown of Poland and the Moscow State, who were attracted by its favorable strategic position, an important role in the international Baltic trade and rich land resources

  • The possibility of direct expansion by the Catholic states was limited by the status of Livonia as a «crusading state», under the auspices of the two most influential political assemblies of Catholic Europe – the Pope and the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation

  • That was promoted by the ancient political and legal concept according to which they acted as protectors and conservators of the states of the Livonian Confederation

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Introduction

В Новгородском Разряде были думный дьяк Евдоким Яковлевич Витовтов – начинал карьеру в подьячих Новгородской чети при В.И. Сигизмунду III, одновременно «ведал» Поместный приказ в 1612 г., был послан в Польшу для ускорения приезда королевича Владислава и в составе русского посольства задерживался там до 1617 г. Разрядного приказа Первого ополчения, Сыдавной Семен Зиновьевич Васильев во времена боярского правления «сидел» в Посольском приказе, в феврале 1612 г.

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