M.M. SPERANSKY AND POWER: SOME LESSONS

Abstract

In the article, the author, perhaps for the first time, compares certain facts of M. M. Speransky’s life and work with the actions of such major Russian politicians as A. L. Ordin-Nashchokin, V. V. Golitsyn, M. T. Loris-Melikov and others. Such a comparison (behind despite seemingly isolated cases from the lives of people, separated from each other for decades, and sometimes even centuries) allows to identify some recurring moments, phenomena, features of the public service, organization of power and management in Russia.