Activities of the III Department for spousal conflict resolution
- Authors: Polyansky P.L.1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 198-208
- Section: Pages of history
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1026-9452/article/view/293848
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225040144
- ID: 293848
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Abstract
The article covers the activity of the III Department of the Russian Emperor’s Chancellery in settling marital conflicts. On the basis of archival materials, the author establishes the main tasks, methods and significance of the work of gendarmes in the marital and family sphere. Examples of participation of the III Department in the normalization of marital relations of Russians are considered. The author makes a general conclusion on the positive value that had the work of the staff of the III Department for the resolution of specific marital troubles, and for later changes in marriage and family legislation.
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Pavel L. Polyansky
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: iogp@yandex.ru
Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of History of State and Law of the Faculty of Law
Russian Federation, 1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991References
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