Everyday life of the Bashkir bureaucracy in the first half of the 19th century: reconstruction of a picture of domestic life

The article discusses introduction of the kanton management system in Bashkiria. It explores the formation of a national bureaucracy in the Bashkir and Mishar cantons, their rights and responsibilities, the level of financial well-being. Based on archival materials (the trial and matters of inheritance), the paper shows the household structure of the Bashkir kanton chiefs in the first half of the 19th century.Their perception of the European comfortstandards in combination with well-preserved traditional culture is traced.