российское правительство

The article is devoted to the early history of formation of Russian health care, which is related with to the efforts of tsarist government to develop the measures of defense of empire against epidemics. Taking of cholera regulations in 1903 gave occasion for straining of relations between the government and the liberal medical community, which has realized the extraneousness of tsarist policy to their professional interests.

The author considers the trustee system of Kalmykia management that was formed since the mid XIX century. It was a reflection of the Government's policy that was directed to replace national authorities by unified empire-wide authority and control. It is concluded that the produced then in the second half of the XIX – early XX century transformation isn’t the radical reconstruction and was the continuation and development of state traditions  in the non-Russian management.