land captain

Russian politics

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In Dmitry Andreyevich, Count Tolstoy
…peasant townships were placed under land captains chosen by the minister of the interior. Land captains had to be members of the landowning nobility, and they appointed the town elders who had the power to fine and arrest the peasants without trial. Tolstoy’s ministry ended when he died in 1889.
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