Bloodlines of Power: Family Background and Elite Career Advancement in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Bureaucracy and Army

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Anna Arkhina, Bocconi University

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Arkhina, Anna. Bloodlines of Power: Family Background and Elite Career Advancement in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Bureaucracy and Army. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E244445V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This dataset contains individual-level career histories of senior civil servants and generals in the Russian Empire during the nineteenth century (1800–1881). It is based on the complete published Seniority Lists of civil and military elites and linked genealogical sources. The sample is restricted to individuals with confirmed paternal background, including only cases where a father’s membership in the civil or military elite is positively verified or where it is reliably established that the father did not belong to the elite. The data record timing of promotions within the Table of Ranks, elite attainment, institutional affiliation, noble titles, and family background, and are designed to support replication and further research on intergenerational mobility and elite reproduction.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Economic history; social mobility
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage The Russian Empire
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1800 – 1881 (19th century)


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