Saint Petersburg Governorate
Saint Petersburg Governorate
Санкт-Петербургская губерния | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Established | 1708 |
Abolished | 1927 |
Capital |
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Area | |
• Total | 44,613 km2 (17,225 sq mi) |
Population (1897) | |
• Total | 2,112,033 |
• Density | 47/km2 (120/sq mi) |
• Urban | 67.32% |
• Rural | 32.68% |
The Saint Petersburg Governorate
Establishment
Ingermanland Governorate (Ингерманла́ндская губе́рния, Ingermanlandskaya guberniya) was created from the territories reconquered from the Swedish Empire in the Great Northern War.[1] In 1704 prince Alexander Menshikov was appointed as its first governor, and in 1706 it was first Russian region designated as a Governorate.[2] According to the Tsar Peter the Great's edict as on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708,[3] the whole Russia was split into eight Governorates. In the same year Ingermanland Governorate was further expanded to encompass the regions of Pskov, Novgorod and other towns of Western Russia.[4][5] As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Ingermanland Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.[6]
By another edict on June 3, 1710, the governorate was renamed St. Petersburg Governorate after the newly founded city of
From August 18, 1914 to January 26, 1924 it was named
# | City | # | City | # | City |
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1. | St. Petersburg | 12. | Narva | 23. | Staraya Rusa |
2. | Beloozero | 13. | Olonets | 24. | Toropets |
3. | Bezhetskoy Verkh | 14. | Opochek | 25. | Torzhok |
4. | Derptskoy uyezd | 15. | Ostrov | 26. | Tver |
5. | Gdov | 16. | Porkhov | 27. | Uglich |
6. | Izborsk | 17. | Poshekhonye | 28. | Ustyuzhna Zheleznopolskaya |
7. | Kargopol | 18. | Pskov | 29. | Veliky Novgorod |
8. | Kashin | 19. | Romanov | 30. | Yamburg |
9. | Koporye | 20. | Rzheva pustaya (Zavolochye) | 31. | Yaroslavl |
10. | Ladoga | 21. | Rzheva Volodimirova | ||
11. | Luki Velikiye | 22. | Shlisselburg |
Administrative divisions
The governorate was composed of eight counties (uezds) as of January 1, 1914. Follows the table:
County | County Town | Arms of County Town | Area | Population ( 1897 census )
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Transliteration name | Russian Cyrillic | ||||
Gdovsky | Гдовский | Gdov | 8,810 km2 (3,400 sq mi) |
145,573 | |
Luzhsky | Лужский | Luga | 10,192.7 km2 (3,935.4 sq mi) |
133,466 | |
Novoladozhsky | Новоладожский | Novaya Ladoga | 8,707.4 km2 (3,361.9 sq mi) |
87,841 | |
Petergofsky | Петергофский | Petergof | 2,742.5 km2 (1,058.9 sq mi) |
140,547 | |
Sankt-Peterburgsky | Санкт-Петербургский | Saint Petersburg (Sankt–Peterburg) |
1,973.8 km2 (762.1 sq mi) |
1,317,885 | |
Tsarskoselsky | Царскосельский | Tsarskoye Selo | 4,303.9 km2 (1,661.7 sq mi) |
149,845 | |
Shlisselburgsky | Шлиссельбургский | Shlisselburg | 3,870.7 km2 (1,494.5 sq mi) |
54,904 | |
Yamburgsky | Ямбургский | Yamburg | 4,014.4 km2 (1,550.0 sq mi) |
81,972 |
Supernumerary town
City | Population | Part of | Arms |
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Gatchina | 14,824 | Tsarskoselsky Uyezd | |
Kronstadt | 59,525 | Petergofsky Uyezd | |
Narva | 16,599 | Yamburgsky Uyezd | |
Oranienbaum | 5,458 | Petergofsky Uyezd | |
Pavlovsk | 5,113 | Tsarskoselsky Uyezd |
Former city
City | Population | Part of | Arms |
---|---|---|---|
Rozhdestveno | 980 | Tsarskoselsky Uyezd | |
Sofia | 1,190 |
Governorate administration
General Governors
- Prince Aleksandr Menshikov 12 October 1702 – May 1724
- Pyotr Apraksin May 1724 – January 1725
- Prince Aleksandr Menshikov January 1725 – 8 September 1727
- Jan Sapieha1727 – 1728
- Burkhard Christoph von Münnich January 1728 – 1734 War Governor
- Nikolai Golovin 1742
- Peter Lacy 1743
- Vasily Repnin1744
- Stepan Ignatiev 1744
- Boris Yusupov 1749
- Prince Mikhail Golitsin 1752 – 1754
- Peter August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck1762
- Ivan Neplyuyev 1762 – 1764
- Ivan Glebov 1767
- Prince Aleksander GolitsinOctober 1769 – 8 October 1783
- Jacob Bruce1784 – 6 October 1791
- Aleksander Romanov 6 October 1791 – 1797 War Governor
- Nikolai Arkharov 6 October 1791 – November 1796, until 15 June 1797 acting General Governor
- Fyodor BuksgevdenJune 1797 – August 1798
- Pyotr von der Pahlen8 August 1798 – 30 June 1801, until 25 August 1800 acting, from 24 March 1801 War Governor
- Mikhail Kutuzov 30 July 1801 – 9 September 1802 War Governor
- Mikhail Kamenskiy27 August 1802 – 16 November 1802 War Governor
- Pyotr Tolstoy 28 November 1802 – 25 January 1803 War Governor
- Andrey Budberg 25 January 1803 – 17 February 1803 War Governor
- Pyotr Tolstoy 28 November 1802 – 10 September 1805 War Governor
- Nikolai Svechin 1803 – 1806
- Sergey Vyazmitinov 10 September 1805 – 12 January 1808 War Governor
- Prince Dmitry Lobanov-Rostovskiy12 January 1808 – 2 February 1809
- Alexander Balashov 14 February 1809 – 9 April 1810
- Sergey Vyazmitinov 10 November 1816 – 31 August 1818 War General Governor
- Mikhail Miloradovich 31 August 1818 – 15 December 1825 War General Governor
- Pavel Golenishchev-Kutuzov 27 December 1825 – 19 February 1830 War General Governor
- Pyotr Essen17 February 1830 – 14 February 1842 War General Governor
- Aleksander Kavelin 14 February 1842 – 19 April 1846 War General Governor
- Matvey Khrapovitskiy 7 April 1846 – 31 March 1847 War General Governor
- Dmitry Shulgin 3 May 1847 – 1 January 1855 War General Governor
- Aleksander Stroganov1854 War Governor
- Pavel Ignatiev28 December 1854 – 16 November 1861 War General Governor
- Aleksandr Suvorov-Rymnikskiy 16 November 1861 – 16 May 1866 War General Governor
- Iosif Gurko April 1879 – February 1880
- Pyotr Gresser February 1880 – 1892
- Viktor von Wahl 1892 – 1895
- Nikolai Kleigels 1895 – 1904
- Ivan Fullon 1904 – 1905
- Dmitry Trepov 12 January 1905 – 14 April 1905 acting General Governor
- Vladimir Dedyulin 1905 – 1906
- Vladimir von der Launits 1906 – 1907
- Daniil Drachevsky 1907 – 1914
- Aleksandr Obolensky 1914 – 1916
- Aleksandr Balk 1916 – March 1917
- Vadim Yurevich March – May 1917
- Grigory Shreider July – November 1917
Governors
- Fyodor Apraksin 1712 – 1723
- Vasily Saltykov 21 January 1734 – October 1740
- Prince Yakov Shakhovskoy October 1740 – November 1740
- Prince Vasily Nesvitsky 23 July 1761 – 17 April 1764
- Stepan Ushakov 21 April 1764 – 21 April 1773
- Stepan Perfiliev 22 September 1773 – 10 September 1774
- Karl Ungern-Sternverg 12 September 1774 – 25 July 1779
- Dmitry Volkov 4 August 1779 – 1780
- Ustin Potapov 4 August 1780 – 1 January 1784
- Pyotr Tarbeev 1 April 1784 – 18 March 1785
- Pyotr Konovnitsin 18 March 1785 – 2 September 1793
- Nikita Ryleev 2 September 1793 – 9 June 1797
- Ivan Alekseev 9 June 1797 – 28 August 1797
- Ivan Grevens 28 August 1797 – 21 December 1798
- Dmitry Glinka22 December 1798 – 2 March 1800
- Prokopy Mishchersky 7 March 1800 – 1 June 1800
- Nikolay Khotyaintsev 1 June 1800 – 5 June 1801
- Pyotr Pankratiev 5 June 1801 – 19 July 1802
- Sergey Kushnikov 19 July 1802 – 28 October 1804
- Pyotr Paseviev 28 October 1804 – 31 January 1808
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin 31 January 1808 – 14 July 1816
- Semyon Shcherbinin 15 August 1816 – 23 November 1826
- Aleksandr Bezobrazov25 November 1826 – 27 January 1829
- Ivan Khrapovitskiy 27 January 1829 – 11 December 1835
- Mikhail Zhemchuzhnikov 11 December 1835 – 30 December 1840
- Vasily Sheremetev10 January 1841 – 28 June 1843
- Nikolay Zhukovskiy 10 August 1843 – 8 April 1851
- Pyotr Donaurov 8 April 1851 – 7 April 1855
- Nikolai Smirnov 7 April 1855 – 1 January 1861
- Aleksandr Bobrinsky 12 January 1861 – 13 March 1864
- Vladimir Skaryatin 20 March 1864 – 1 January 1865
- Lev Perovskiy1 January 1865 – 22 July 1866, until 22 July 1865 acting
- Nikolay Levashov 22 July 1866 – 8 May 1871
- Iosif Lutkovskiy 9 May 1871 – 2 September 1880, until 30 March 1873 acting
- Fyodor Trepov 1873 - 1878
- Sergey Tol 2 September 1880 – May 1903
- Aleksandr Zinoviev 6 March 1903 – January 1911
- Aleksandr Adlerberg 9 January 1911 – 18 August 1914
Marshals of the nobility
Served as chair of the
- Alexander Kurakin 1780 – 1783
- Adam Olsufiev 1783 – 1784
- Andrey Shuvalov 1784 – 1785
- Aleksander Naryshkin 1788 – 1790
- Aleksander Stroganov1790 – 1798
- Mikhail Rumyantsev1798 – 1801
- Pyotr Razumovsky1801 – 1805
- Aleksander Stroganov 1805 – 1811
- Aleksey Zherebtsov 1811 – 1814
- Ilya Bezborodko 1814 – 1815
- Aleksey Zherebtsov 1815 – 1818
- Arkadiy Nelidov 1826 – 1830
- Dmitriy Durnovo 1830 – 1833
- Prince Vasiliy Dolgorukov 1833 – 1839
- Prince Golitsin 24 February 1839 – 1842
- Mikhail Potyomkin 21 March 1842 – 24 March 1854
- Pyotr Shuvalov24 March 1854 – 29 March 1863
- Grigoriy Shcherbatov 29 March 1863 – 8 March 1866
- Vladimir Orlov-Davydov 8 March 1866 – 21 March 1869
- Aleksandr Bobrinskiy 21 March 1869 – 18 April 1872
- Andrey Shuvalov 18 April 1872 – 14 April 1876
- Aleksey Bobrinskiy14 April 1876 – 27 January 1890
- Aleksandr Mordvinov 27 January 1890 – 1891
- Aleksandr Trubnikov 1891 – 1 February 1893
- Aleksey Bobrinskiy 1 February 1893 – 8 February 1897
- Aleksandr Zinoviev 8 February 1897 – February 1904
- Vasiliy Gudovich 15 February 1904 – March 1909
- Ivan Saltykov 8 March 1909 – 1915
See also
Notes
- pre-reformed orthography: Санктъ-Петербу́ргская губе́рнія, romanized: Sankt-Peterbúrgskaya gubérniya
References
- ISBN 0521815290.
- ^ Национальные окраины российской империи. Становление и развитие системы управления. Институт Российской истории РАН, М. 1997 // Полное собрание законов Российской империи. 1-е собрание. СПб., 1830. Т. 4. № 1954. С. 334.
- ^ a b Указ об учреждении губерний и о росписании к ним городов (in Russian)
- ^ Архивы Санкт-Петербурга. Краткая справка о границах С.-Петербургской (Петроградской) губернии с XVIII в. до 1918 года
- ^ Славнитский Н. Р. Утверждение России в Ингерманландии в царствование Петра Великого, стр. 27
- ^ С. А. Тархов (2001). "Изменение административно-территориального деления России за последние 300 лет". Электронная версия журнала "География".
External links
- (in Russian) List of rulers