Researching the Third Section which was organized under the Tsar's chancery. I get the benefit of setting up a parallel organization outside of the culture and hierarchy of existing institutions but many of the sources seem to make a big deal out of the chancery reporting directly to the Tsar which seemed to jive with how few of them there were. At first, I thought this was a reference to the relative lack of many levels of hierarchy between individual agents of the Third Section and the Tsar...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange