title: The Caucasian Viceroy Michael Vorontsov and his Fraction
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metadata.value: Urushadze, Amiran T.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Sulaberidze, Zurab N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T20:52:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T20:52:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Urushadze A. T., Sulaberidze Z. N. The Caucasian Viceroy Michael Vorontsov and his Fraction. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 2, рp. 375–391.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18358
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metadata.value: The article deals with the patronage network of the first Caucasian Viceroy Michael Vorontsov.
  The research is based on the patronizing letters of the Viceroy to the Director of the Caucasian
  Committee Vladimir Butkov, as well as on the correspondence between Michael Vorontsov
  and employees and supporters. Michael Vorontsov’s fraction consisted of representatives from
  various social groups: military, officials, local nobility, religious leaders, merchant circles. This
  diversity is explained both by the peculiarities of the personality of the Caucasian Viceroy,
  who combined the qualities of a nobleman, an army leader, a manager, and the socio-political
  conditions of the region which was led by Michael Vorontsov. The Caucasian Viceroy
  managed to form a reliable patronage network, which excluded the opposition and was the
  basis of the regional autocracy of the Viceroy. The administrative apparatus was made up of
  experienced officials who served with Vorontsov in the Novorossiysk region. Among the local
  population who supported the Viceroy was the Georgian princely clans, including the Orbeliani
  family, as well as the Armenian merchants. The formation of a loyal fraction was also
  necessary in the context of a confrontation with the Ministerial bureaucracy, whose ties with
  local institutions were suppressed or extremely formalized. Loyalty of clients was provided by
  promotions, awards and material prosperity. The system created by Vorontsov proved to be
  durable. His successors also relied in the capital on the Caucasian Committee and its Director,
  and within the Viceroyalty — on the same corporations and individuals who were patronized
  by the first Caucasian Viceroy.
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metadata.value: The study was supported by the grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation (project No. 17-78-20117).
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Caucasus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Caucasian Viceroyalty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Caucasian Viceroy Michael Vorontsov and his Fraction
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metadata.value: Article
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