ORGANIZATIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY''S OWN CONVOY IN THE 1ST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

The article provides a meaningful analysis of the organizational and functional evolution of His own Imperial Majesty's convoy in the 1st half of the 19th century. The author gives a description of the military, political, cultural, ceremonial and security tasks of the Convoy, traces changes in its organizational and staff structure. It is concluded that at the beginning of the XIX century. The convoy provided security for the emperor during his stay in the army, and after the completion of the Napoleonic wars, he began to play a rather limited role in court ceremonies. Nicholas I turned the Convoy into a two-pronged structure, the first part of which (divisions of the highlanders) served as an instrument of Russian policy in the Caucasus, and the second (the team of linear Cossacks) became the bodyguard of the emperor. Common to both parts of the Convoy were ceremonial-representative functions.