State allowances and privileges of magistrates in Irkutsk Province in 1896-1917
This paper examines the amount of monetary allowances and the list of benefits provided to magistrates in the Irkutsk Province in the post-reform period. The main attention is paid not only to the size of salaries and the rules for their increase, but also to non-material benefits for magistrates and their families. The amounts of salaries of judges in the pre-reform and post-reform periods are compared, as well as their comparison with the salaries of various categories of the population in similar periods. The study and analysis of archival data from the State Archive of the Irkutsk Region and legislative acts of the Russian Empire regulating the salaries and benefits of magistrates in a remote region of Russia allow us to more accurately determine the financial situation of judges in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries, as well as to estimate the amount of state expenditures directed to the provision of the judicial corps in the Russian Empire. The conducted research allows us to conclude that when appointed to the Irkutsk Province, a justice of the peace received an increased salary and a wide range of benefits not only for himself, but also for his family members. Taking into account the territorial remoteness of the region from the central part of the country, harsh climatic conditions, the lack of educational institutions for the training of legal personnel, psychological factors of relocation created a problem with the provision of the judicial corps in the Irkutsk Province. The size of salaries, guarantees of their increase and various benefits were supposed to be an incentive to attract qualified specialists to a remote province of the Russian Empire.