The article presents Polish and Russian drafts of the statutes of the Hrubieszów Agricultural Society, discovered during the author’s archival research. These documents reveal several aspects of the organization of the Russian state, whose legislation was different from that propagated by Fr Stanisław Staszic at the very beginning of the 19th century (the decline of feudalism and the beginnings of the capitalist system). Although the Russian project did not affect the activities of the society, it testifies to an organisation that was clearly being used for imperial aims. The Polish projects aimed to adapt Staszic’s organisational model to the requirements of twentieth-century legislative development but were eventually abandoned in 1936 due to the private nature of the organisation.
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