Abstract
The problematics of the article reflect the predominance of territorial-regional factor in the evolution of the unified political-legal space of the Russian Empire and its administrative and legislative structure. The political-philosophical conception of social modernization in the context of the state-legal sphere of life of the society as the environment reflecting the managerial influence of public authority on society is chosen as an ideological basis. The implementation of the principles of state, administrative and national structuring of public administration is analyzed, as a result of which a significant share of outskirts autonomy in regulation of internal processes was allowed. The essence of the Empire as the totality of the monar-chic authority, regional non-sovereign formations and supra-ethnic composition of the population is emphasized. It is concluded that the interaction of the сenter and regions in the structural-managerial aspect of strengthening the Russian Empire was built based on the autonomy.