The article is devoted to the image of pre-reform, Emperor Nicholas I’s Russia in the worldview of monarchist publicists of the 1890s. The difficulties associated with attempts to rehabilitate some of the orders of the era of Nicholas I in public opinion are considered. Particular attention is paid to the issue of comparing local self-government in pre-reform Russia with post-reform self-government in non-zemstvo provinces in favor of the former, which is associated with the emergence at the end of the nineteenth century of projects to expand zemstvos to new territories.
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