Karavaev I.V. Treasury chambers: branches for managing state property or an instrument of the fiscus?

Abstract: The subject of this research is the structural and functional analysis of the activity of treasury chambers prior to the creation of the chambers of state property and determination of the causes for the reform of the system of branches of local management of state property in 1838. Based on the Code of Laws and materials from the Russian State Historical Archive, and State Archive of the Kirov Oblast the author analyzes the results of the work of the treasury chambers in various branches of managing state property: taxes, state peasants, land, tributes, forest plots, payoffs. The use of the principle of historicism allowed the author to examine the circumstances of the reform of the branches of local management of state property in 1838 in relation to specific historical circumstances of that time. The author enters new archival sources into the scientific circulation. The author makes a conclusion on the predominance of a fiscal function of the treasury chambers at the expense of its intended management function.

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