Документы департаментского делопроизводства как информационный ресурс формирования коллективной биографии и социокультурного портрета военной бюрократии XIX в.: послужные списки и наградные материалы

The article considers the possibility of forming a collective biography and socio-cultural portrait of the military bureaucracy of the XIX century, based on the analysis of an extensive complex of departmental records management. The Fund of the Department of military settlements of the Military Ministry was chosen as the source base. The information potential of the collection of service records, award materials, materials on production in ranks or making career (chinoproizvodstvo) and other cases, including biographical information, is determined. The documentary collection of the Department provides researchers with a lot of aggregated information for the formation of meta-sources in the development of issues of collective and personal biography, prosopography and socio-cultural portrait of the military bureaucracy. With the expansion of the source base by attracting the departmental office appears the possibility specifying the place of military bureaucracy in the community serving the Russian bureaucracy and identifies all the features of its service, and determines ways of forming this group of the Russian bureaucracy.