The article reconstructs the political background of the appointment of the first palace commandant (head of the royal guard) Emperor Nicholas II P.P. Hesse in 1896. This plot as a whole has not been considered in the literature, and individual historiographic constructions of the authors are full of inaccuracies that distort the overall picture of the event. Therefore, the article is based on the source study approach, expressed in the analysis of the main published and unpublished sources on the topic. The author comes to the conclusion that the appointment of P.P. Hesse was the result of the struggle in the court elites of the Russian Empire in the mid-1890s for influence on the young Emperor Nicholas II and his domestic policy.
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