Office Practice of the Mozdok Upper Border Court in Cooperation With the Commander-in-Chief of the Troops on the Caucasian Line (1793–1822)

The article examines the clerical practice of the Mozdok Upper Border Court in cooperation with the Commanderin-Chief of the troops on the Caucasian Line in 1793–1822. In the course of the study, the orders, proposals, relations, orders and decrees sent by the Commander-in-Chief to the Court, and reports and submissions prepared by the court, as well as annotation of the record of these documents in the journals of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the court, are analyzed. It was established that the Commander-in-Chief interacted with the Border Court on the production of investigative cases and making decisions on especially serious crimes, issues of personnel rotation, as well as promotion of Court employees, appeal against actions (inaction) of bailiffs at the request of the Border Court (mainly about the non-expulsion of the participants in the process to the court), approval of the issuance of tickets on the dismissal of Court members on vacation, the provision of reports with reporting materials on the activities of the Court (information with elements of statistical observation on resolved and unresolved cases). It was concluded that the materials of this group of documents are applicable to the study of the history of Russian authorities in the Caucasus, the peculiarities of resolving disputes and conflicts among the local population, the social mobility of regional ethnoelites in new political realities, the collection of information about the customs and traditions of the local population, etc.