Search for: [Abstract = "The article analyzes activities of Inquiry \(Board of Commissioners\) and Judicial Commissions in Grodno region during and after the uprising 1863–1864. The papers of these bodies are still the main source on the history of this event. That’s why their studies are of great importance. Using unknown archival materials the author examines the main stages of the inquiry and trial processes under the rebels of 1863. The prime tasks of these inquiry bodies were\: questioning, investigation of every particular case and making final conclusion concerning guilt or innocence of every person under the trial. Every commission had its own features thus influencing all this process which was conduct at a very low professional level. In many cases the sentences were passed not on the bases of the objective results of the investigation, but on the Vilna government administration demand “to clear this region from Polish element”. Summing up, the author makes the conclusion that these commissions were the essential part of M. Muravyev’srepressive system at the territory of Belarusian lands."]
