Review of D.N. Shilov’s Bio-bibliographic Reference Book “Heads of the Highest and Central State Institutions of the Russian Empire, 1802–1917”

The bio-bibliographic reference book by the RNB employee D.N. Shilov «Heads of Higher and Central Institutions of the Russian Empire, 1802–1917» is dedicated to the heads of higher and central state institutions (ministers, chief administrative departments, chairmen of the State Council, Committee and Council of Ministers, state secretaries and chief prosecutors of the Holy Synod, etc.) – the state elite of the Russian Empire, which constituted the central offi ce of management. The new three-volume edition contains 285 bio-bibliographic articles, which present the conducted source study and verifi cation of materials from ten archives of St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as about 70 thousand bibliographic records.