Optimization of relations of power in Siberia due to the reform of 1822

The role of the state as the authority, connecting the central and the outlying territories of Russia by the means of state ideology and the central administration in one political whole is analyzed. The article reveals the evolution of the interaction center-region in the structural-managerial aspect of strengthening the Russian Empire of the 19th century. The article analyses the process of government legitimacy in the Russian empire from the beginning of the 19th century. The author develops the argument that the source of the power in the empire was a ruling institute of bureaucracy in the frame of a class structuring of society but not the trust of the people. Investigating the subject of scientific work dialectically, the author uses comparative legal, historic legal and systemic structural methods of perception. The author argues that in the system «the empire-bureaucracy-population» the functionality of the imperial state always depended on the ability of the administrative elite to understand the instruments of the government legitimacy and to keep a distance between themselves, subordinated population and local management. The evolution of the empire was closely connected with contradictory factors - with a super-structural role of bureaucracy and with its need to become part of the political sphere of a society because the state monopolized legitimate violence. Special attention is paid to authorities' attitude to the centralization and bureaucratization of management allowing just some power de-concentration on the skirts of the state. Imperial administration strengthens the asymmetrical status of ethnic groups and regions in their relation to the centre. Their integration dynamics is preconditioned, first and foremost, by geopolitical and geoeconomic factors. Russia adapted a set number of social hierarchies to nation-wide affairs. The management of Siberia was the interaction of administration and local community of region in 18th century. The author characterizes Siberia as being original in regards to the ethnic attitude towards the state’s territory, to the degree of the center keeping the properties of the governmental-regional and local legal systems separate. Particular emphasis is given to the legislative consolidation of changes in these phenomena. The opinion is formed source of original imperial type of statehood remains multi-structural.