Causes of the violations and abuses in the bureaucratic environment of the Russian Empire in the late XVIII-early XIX centuries and its occurrences among the Ukrainian officials.

Article is devoted to finding the cause of service violations and crimes among the officials of the Russian Empire, including Ukrainian territories in late 18th-earlv 19th centuries. At this time, Ukrainian officials have been fully integrated into the imperial bureaucracv. Historical, socio-economic, socio-cultural and political causes of the service violations were identified. Particular attention was paid to the reasons of this phenomenon, i.e. bribery, which was very common among the officials.