Structural and functional changes in economic department of Finnish senate in 1888

The article deals with the problem of administrative development in the Great Duchy of Finland in the last quarter of the XIX century. By that time the Standing Orders of the Governmental Council of Finland of 1809 became significantly obsolete, and it was necessary to renovate them. That is why during the reign of Alexander the III some administrative reforms were undertaken. They resulted in partial alteration of the structure and functions of the Economic (Internal Home Management) department of the Finnish Senate. Although these reforms did not solve all the problems of Duchy’s administrative government, they were an important stage of gradual transformation of the governmental system into Finland’s ministerial system. The Finnish Senate began to settle the problems of the princedom management independently, without any confirmation from the Monarch. The number of structural sections of the Senate increased and their competence grew up. Finish bureaucracy became completely dependent from the Finland’s Senate. As a result the system of authority in Finland became stronger.