Governorate-General (Russian Empire)
Governorate-General (Russian: Генерал-губернаторство) was an administrative-territorial division of the Russian Empire from 1775–1917. Governorate-General usually consisted of set of guberniyas, oblasts. Sometimes used interchangeably with krai (land) or military guberniya. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg governorates were designated into a separate governorates-general.
| Governorate-General | |
|---|---|
| Category | Subdivision of a unitary state |
| Location |  Russian Empire |
| Created | 1775-1917 |
| Subdivisions | Guberniyas [nb 1] |
Description
Governorate-General was governed by governor-general, a military leader of the land. Governors-general supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of the subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
List of Governorates-General
- Governorate-General of Saint-Petersburg
- Governorate-General of Moscow
- Governorate-General of Azov
- Belorussian Governorate-General (1775-1856)
- Siberian Governorate-General (1802-1822)
- East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822-1884), split
- Vladivostok Military Guberniya (April 28 - June 9, 1880) (Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago and Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, established out of the Littoral Oblast right after the "Amur Annexation" turning Vladivostok into city-port.
- Amur Governorate-General (1887-1917)
- Governorate-General of Irkutsk (1887-1917)
- West-Siberian Governorate-General (1822-1882)
- East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822-1884), split
- Lithuanian Governorate-General (1794-1912)
- Governorate-General of Kiev (1832-1912), also known as the Southwestern Krai (Right-bank Ukraine)
- Governorate-General of Grodno, Minsk, Kovno
- Little-Russian Governorate-General (1802-1856)
- Novorossiysk-Bessarabia Governorate-General (1802-1873)
- Governorate-General of Orenburg (1851-1881)
- General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
- Baltic General Governorate
- Vistula Krai, later as Warsaw Governorate-General (1874-1917)
- Russian Turkestan
- Governor-Generalship of the Steppes
- Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
- Grand Duchy of Finland, also known as the General Government of Finland
See also
Notes
- Usually three guberniyas per Governorate-General
References
External links
- Boris Mezhuyev Governorate-General in system of local government of Russia Copyright © 2007 «Русский архипелаг».
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