The activities of the judicial chambers of the Russian empire and bodies of the prison department on the pages of commemorative books

The author examines commemor ative books as a source of study of the judiciary and the prison authorities of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century. The authors analyze quantitative and personal composition of the officials of these bodies, their changes over the years and reveal significant differences in the placement of information about employees of these bodies in the commemorative books of various provinces and regions.