title: LAST MAGISTRATE OF NAKHICHEVAN-ON-DON (1865-1870)
abstract: By the middle of the XIX century the potential of semiautonomous self-government system of Nakhichevanon-Don with villages, based on the letter of Catherine II, granted in 1779 during the resettlement of Armenians from the Crimea to the Lower Don, was practically exhausted. The magistrate, the mayor and other bodies of public selfgovernment were elected for three years in full accordance with Russian legislation. A consistent attack on the rights and privileges of the Armenian city government, a
journal: Гуманитарные и юридические исследования