Prikaznaya Izba (Taltsy Museum) Stock Photography

The Prikaznaya hut was the center of the voivodeship administration of the Ilimsky Krai in the XVII - early XVIII century. Here sat the governor, who was the plenipotentiary representative of the tsarist government, its guide in the distant Siberian region. He received the population on various military, administrative, economic and domestic issues, carried out judicial functions. The apparatus of the command hut, in addition to the voivode, included clerks and clerks who made up the voivodeship office.