From the history of interethnic conflicts in the Russian empire at the beginning of the XX century (Based on the materials of senatorial revisions)

. The article is devoted to the national problems that worsened during the First Russian Revolution and the First World War in the Russian Empire. This situation was reflected in the materials of the audits of senators A.M. Kuzminsky, E.F. Turau, K.K. Palen and N.S. Krasheninnikov. The reports and brief notes of senators describe the bloody interethnic clashes that occurred in Baku, Odessa, Kiev during the First Russian Revolution, interethnic conflicts in the Turkestan region, the German pogrom in Moscow during the First World War. These reports present the senators views on the causes that contributed to the development of conflicts between representatives of different nationali-ties and recommendations to the government on solving the identified problems. Unfortu-nately, the authors who studied this topic practically did not make use of the revision materials in their works, and there is still no special study devoted to the reflection of problems of interethnic relations in the reports of senators in historical science. The value of audit reports lies in the fact that the investigation of interethnic conflicts was carried out by the best lawyers in the country, and they did it as objectively as possible. Based on the data collec-ted by the senators, the article concludes that the sometimes erroneous policy of the tsarist government provoked the development of interethnic clashes in the Russian Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century. The analysis of the audit materials showed that they are the most valuable source on the history of national politics in the Russian Empire.