Franc Brin, Russian administrator of German origin: the contribution to the development of the Tobolsk province

The purpose of the study is to assess the contribution of Franz Abramovich Brin to the development of the Tobolsk province as the head of the region in the early 19th century. The objectives of the work were as follows: to identify biographical information, to consider the activities of Franz Abramovich as a governor, to analyze the difficulties of the administration of the peripheral region in the early 19th century. The sources used were the memoirs of contemporaries, records management materials, publications of periodicals, archival information (research archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of history of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk regional state archive).