TWENTY-FOUR TRUSTEES OF NAKHICHEVANI-ON-DON (FROM THE HISTORY OF ONE SEMI-FORGOTTEN AUTHORITY)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the features of the process of transformation of the system of Armenian self-government in Nakhichevan-on-Don in the middle of the XIX century. The study is based on the principles of science, historicism, objectivity, and interdisciplinarity. This allowed us to study the transformations in the aggregate of their diversity and complexity, taking into account causal relationships and the characteristics of a particular historical situation. Based on the methods of such sciences as history, ethnology, and jurisprudence, using archive materials, the history of the council of twenty-four trustees (a local analog of the city council) is analyzed. It is established that this council in the first half of the XIX century lost its significance and almost ceased to convene. It reappears in 1866 during the reform of city self-government as an auxiliary deliberative body under the mayor. The reforms resulted in the deprivation of the magistrate of Nakhichevan of almost all functions and its abolition. Before the general city reform, the mayor becomes the main body of self-government.