title: The Main Department of Appanages and the Problem of Supplemental Payments to Construction Contractors for Office Buildings in Livadia
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metadata.value: Efimov, Andrey A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T19:24:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T19:24:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Efimov A. A. The Main Department of Appanages and the Problem of Supplemental Payments to Construction Contractors for Office Buildings in Livadia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 2, рp. 307–320. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.204
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45735
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article refers to one of the episodes of interaction between the Ministry of the Imperial
  Court and Appanages and construction contractors at the imperial residence Livadia in Crimea.
  The author, on the basis of materials stored in the Russian State Historical Archive, studies the
  process of considering the petitions of contractors, who participated in the reconstruction of
  the complex of the Livadia estate in 1910–1911, to receive additional payments to compensate
  for the losses incurred. The article notes that all submitted appeals contain a reference to
  force majeure circumstances that entailed unplanned expenses. The author points out that
  for the substantive consideration of petitions, the officials sent requests for documents to the
  Livadsko-Massandra Appanage administration. After receiving the materials, they made a
  decision based on the results of their analysis. These proceedings including the activity of
  the specially assigned commission could last several months or even more than a year. The
  study of archival documents outlined two scenarios for responding to contractors’ requests.
  When the case was considered exclusively by the institutions of the Department of Appanages,
  the applicants received part of the requested amount. At the same time, the contractors were
  notified of the final nature of the decision made, and further requests were rejected. According
  to the second scenario, when the petition reached the leaders of the Ministry of the Imperial
  Court and the Emperor, the Department of Appanages received the highest order to fully
  satisfy the contractor’s request. But even so, as the article notes, officials sought to cut costs
  through the use of deductions.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Research conducted at the expense of the Russian Science Foundation grant no. 22-78-00026 “Ensembles
  of the residences of the Romanovs’ kin members in Crimea: conception, realization, development, and
  transformation (1837–1917)”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 69; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ministry of the Imperial Court
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Crimea
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Livadia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. B. Frederiks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. B. Frederiks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. S. Kochubei
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. N. Kachalov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: G. P. Guschin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contractors
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Main Department of Appanages and the Problem of Supplemental Payments to Construction Contractors for Office Buildings in Livadia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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