Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal.2015. № 4 (16). P. 107—114
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
UDC 94(47):354
Zhukova Anastasiya Evgenyevna, Postgraduate student
Pushkin Leningrad State University
HOW TO BECOME A DIPLOMAT: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INITIAL PERIOD OF WORK AT THE RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF IN LATE 19th CENTURY
Abstract
The article studies the ways of staff formation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, analyzes conditions and factors, contributing to the employment at the ministry, and common positions of entrants. It shows the formally high requirements for the educational level, but in fact the level of education and intelligence did not play the most important role. It is stressed that to make a successful career a diplomat had to be wealthy or have necessary personal connections in the ministry.
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