Saint Petersburg Governor General
| Saint Petersburg Governorate Санкт-Петербургская губерния |
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||
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Shlisselburg (until 1712) Saint Petersburg |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | December 18 (29), 1708 | |||
| • | Treaty of Nystadt | August 30 (September 10), 1721 | |||
| • | Transformed into Leningrad Oblast | August 1, 1927 | |||
Saint Petersburg Governorate (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргская губе́рния, Sankt-Peterburgskaya guberniya), or Government of Saint Petersburg, was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1708–1927.
Ingermanland Governorate (Ингерманла́ндская губе́рния, Ingermanlandskaya guberniya) was created on the territories reconquered from the Swedish Empire in the Great Northern War. In 1704 prince Alexander Menshikov was appointed as its first governor, and in 1706 it was first Russian region designated as a Governorate. According to the Tsar Peter the Great's edict as on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, 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. 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.
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