General composition of the directorates and ranks of the Independent Gendarmerie Corps. Corrected to 15 January 1894 In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Obshchiy sostav upravleniy i chinov Otdelnogo korpusa zhandarmov. Ispravlen po 15 yanvarya 1894 goda The idea of creating the Gendarmerie Corps as a single centralized military unit for political investigation belonged to the eminent military commander and statesman Alexander Christoforovich Bencendorf. SKUalb9fc37dad91a4982b.