RARE official badge of the Russian Empire * World Mediator * gilded. for Sale

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RARE official badge of the Russian Empire * World Mediator * gilded. For Sale

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RARE official badge of the Russian Empire * World Mediator * gilded.:
$350.00

RARE official badge of the Russian Empire * World Mediator * gilded.
Peace mediator - an official position since 1859 in the Russian Empire.WORLD MEDIATORS, in Russia officials who carried out the peasant reform of 1861. The posts were introduced by the Regulations on Provincial and Uyezd Institutions for Peasant Affairs of 1861. Peace mediators were appointed by the Senate from among the local landowners on the proposal of the governors and with the participation of the provincial and district leaders of the nobility. In total, at the beginning of the 1860s. 1.7 thousand posts of the World Mediators were established. World mediators checked the compliance with the law of statutory letters, approved them, monitored their implementation, considered complaints from peasants and landowners and resolved disputes between them, introduced a new structure of peasant self-government, and controlled the activities of rural elected officials. They had judicial and police power in cases of petty crimes and misdemeanors of peasants (about injuries, fellings, etc.) with the right to condemn those responsible to a fine, corporal punishment or arrest.
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