The article explores the experience of implementation by Alexander I of the «namestnichestvo program» in the Volga region provinces and attempts to identify the causes of general-government center's transfer from Kazan to Nizhni Novgorod. With the use of biographical and neo-institutional approaches, the author comes to an unexpected conclusion that this decision was determined not by the logic of state government rationalization, but more by the personal interests of Governor-General A.N. Bakhmetev.
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