DOI: 10.46726/H.2026.1.11
This article analyzes the history of assigning wounded officers who participated in the Patriotic War of 1812 to judicial positions, drawing on sources from the Russian State Historical Archive, regulatory documents from the Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire, memoirs of contemporaries, and statistical literature. On August 18, 1814, on the first anniversary of the Battle of Kulm, Alexander I signed the Imperial Order to the Armies “On the Establishment of a Special Committee for the Assistance of Indigent Disabled Generals, Staff Officers, and Senior Officers”. One of the Committee's socioeconomic measures aimed at supporting wounded officers was the possibility of placing them in judicial positions. This support measure was very popular among wounded officers. The assignment of wounded officers to judicial positions served a dual purpose. On the one hand, the state genuinely helped wounded officers find new duty stations. On the other hand, such assignments took place primarily in those provinces of the Russian Empire where local noble corporations were small. To accommodate wounded officers, the Ministry of Justice created judicial positions, which nobles generally refused to fill. The author concludes that after the War of 1812, wounded officers served as a source of personnel to fill the personnel shortage in the Russian judicial corps.
For citation: Podlesnykh S.N. Assignment of wounded officers-participants in the Patriotic War of 1812 to judicial positions, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2026, iss. 1, pp. 81—88.