The strategy of the Cabinet of Ministers in the south-east of European Russia in 1737–1739: “the time of V.N. Tatishchev”

Background. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that the study of relations between the central and local authorities during the period of V.N. Tat ishchev’s leadership of the Orenburg expedition (commission) makes it possible to trace the policy of the Cabinet of Ministers in the south-east of the European Russia in the second half of the 1730s. The purpose of the work is to study the strategy of the Cabinet in its in teraction with the Senate in the south-east in 1737–1739. Materials and methods. The study is based on the analysis of documents extracted from the fonds of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, the United State Archive of Orenburg Region, the Scientific Archive of Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as on the study of pub lished legislative and office records materials. The study utilized historical-genetic and comparative-historical methods. Results. The work of the system of higher state institutions – the Cabinet of Ministers and the Senate in the south-east in 1737–1739 is analyzed. The change in the policy of the Cabinet after the Bashkir uprising of 1735–1736 is revealed. Conclusions. In the second half of the 1730s, the mechanism of interaction between the “Cabinet-Senate” institutions was finally formed in favor of the Cabinet as the leading link in the system of central authorities. The policy of the Cabinet in the south-eastern direction under Tatishchev became more cautious.