Baltic governorates
Baltic governorates
Прибалтийские губернии | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Governorate-General | Baltic |
Great Northern War; Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia | 1710 |
Established | 1721 |
Third Partition of Poland; Annexation of Courland and Semigallia | 1795 |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 3 March 1918 |
Area | |
• Total | 94,567.57 km2 (36,512.74 sq mi) |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by |
The Baltic governorates,
History
The
The
After an administrative reform in 1796, the Reval Governorate was renamed Governorate of Estland (Эстляндская губерния), and Riga Governorate renamed Governorate of Livland (Лифляндская губерния). The third Baltic province of Courland was annexed into Russian Empire after the
The Baltic Governor-General (Прибалтийский генерал-губернатор) was the representative of the
The Governor-General, the highest local executive official and military authority, was in charge of the internal order in the provinces and had to take care of their overall security. He was in charge of recruiting troops and had to keep an eye on the garrisons and fortifications. His civil duties included supervising the provincial administration and prisons, maintaining land roads and bridges, issuing passports, and overseeing collection of state taxes and customs duties. He appointed and dismissed higher officials. The Office of the Baltic Governor-General was abolished at the beginning of the russification in the Baltic Provinces in 1876.
Similarly to
From the end of the 18th century through 1917 names and territories of the
List of governors-general
- Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (1710–1719) as governor-general of Ingria
- Fyodor Apraksin (1719–1728)
- Friedrich Baron von Löwen (et) (1728–1736)
- Platon Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (ru) (1736)
- Gustaf Otto Douglas (1736–1740)
- Ulrich Friedrich Woldemar von Löwendal (1740–1743)
- Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1743–1753, 1758–1775)
- Vladimir Petrovich Dolgorukov (et) (1753–1758)
- George Browne (1775–1792)
- Nicholas Repnin(1792–1798)
- Ludwig von Nagel (ru) (1798–1800)
- Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen (1800–1801)
- Sergei Fyodorovich Golitsyn (ru) (1801–1803)
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1803–1808)
- Duke George of Oldenburg (1808–1809)
- Berend Johann von Uexküll (et) (1809–1811, 1816–1818)
- Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1811–1816)
- Philip Osipovich Paulucci(1818–1829)
- Carl Magnus von der Pahlen (de) (1829–1845)
- Yevgeny Golovin (1845–1847)
- Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov (1848–1861)
- Wilhelm Heinrich von Lieven (et) (1861–1864)
- Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1864–1866)
- Eduard Baranov (ru) (1866)
- Peter Albedinskiy (ru) (1866–1870)
- Peter Bagrationi(1870–1876)
Listing
Coat of arms | Unofficial flag | Russian | Transliteration | Historic German | Historic English | Modern English | Current area |
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Эстляндская губерния | Estlyandskaya guberniya | Est(h)ländisches Gouvernement | Est(h)onia | Estonia | North Estonia | ||
Лифляндская губерния | Liflyandskaya guberniya | Livländisches Gouvernement | Livonia | Livonia | South Estonia, North Latvia (Vidzeme) | ||
Курля́ндская губерния | Kurlyandskaya guberniya | Kurländisches Gouvernement | Courland | Curonia | West Latvia, South Latvia ( Zemgale )
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See also
- Administrative division of Congress Poland
- Lithuania Governorate
Notes
References
- ^ Tuchtenhagen, Ralph (2005) (in German). Geschichte der baltischen Länder. Beck'sche Reihe. 2355. C.H.Beck.
- ^ Kahle, Wilhelm (1984). "Die Bedeutung der Confessio Augustana für die Kirche im Osten". In Hauptmann, Peter (in German). Studien zur osteuropäischen Kirchengeschichte und Kirchenkunde. Kirche im Osten. 27. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 9–35.
- ISBN 0-691-05314-6.
- ^ "Тесля А. А. Источники (формальные) гражданского права Российской Империи в XIX – начале XX века. — 2003". Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2011-03-26.