The Legal Nature of the Registration of the National-Autonomist Status of the Kingdom of Poland within the Russian Empire

Some initial provisions are determined in the study of the legal principles of the entry of a particular region into the Russian Empire – the Kingdom of Poland, while establishing the relationship of such categories as empire, multiculturalism and state unity. Attention is focused on the complexity, complexity and interdisciplinarity of the social category „empire“. On the basis of legislation, archival materials and scientifi c works, the conditions, ideas and means of including the territory into a single political and legal space of the imperial state are consistently considered. The author comes to the conclusion that the beginning of the integration of the Kingdom of Poland into Russia is characterized by the legal composition of incorporation, and not by a real union.