263 the Great Ruler was in the Senate and heard the list of subdivisions of the gubernii into provinces, and he ordered that the towns in all gubcrnii and the appointed officials in the St. Petersburg guberniia shall be enacted in everything as it has been formulated in this list, and that these officials of the St. Petersburg guberniia shall be sent to the towns immediately once they have received their instructions from the Senate; and they are to commence their administration immediately on July 1 of the current year, 1719, according to the High Ruler’s earlier most gracious ukaz. The transition to the new administrative organization was to take place in the other gubernii and provinces on January 1, 1720, in accordance with what had been decided earlier.*^' It is also clear from the Senate’s ukaz that the administrative subdivision had only been completed for the St. Petersburg guberniia. In the other nine gubernii, for example, the officials of the newly created provinces had not yet been appointed. With the exception of a few additions and a few dislocations between the provinces, the final administrative system for the St. Petersburg guberniia was based on the Senate’s plan as presented above, and thus indirectly on Pick’s proposal, as well. Prince A. D. Menshikov, who was appointed governor general of St. Petersburg, was “to have his activity in the capital over the St. Petersburg, Kotlin, and Schlusselburg garrisons, with the exception of the districts.” The surrounding districts were to be administered by a voevoda, who was also to reside in St. Petersburg. In this set up we can easily recognize the Senate plan for the subdivision of the St. Petersburg guberniia, which of course was based on Pick’s proposal. Menshikov was to have a position corresponding to that of the överståthållare in Stockholm, and it was in keeping with the Swedish model that he was not to have jurisdiction over the administration of the neighboring districts. Pick had, of course, pointed out that “the ober-shtat gaiter has nothing to do with the administration of the surrounding lands, but rather the two provinces adjacent to Stockholm have their own landsgevdingi. Pick had also suggested that the border provinces should, in agreement with the Swedish system, be placed under governors in view of their military and strategic importance. Thus, he had argued that Viborg, Narva, and Reval should be administered by governors, and a commandant “of military rank” should be apointed in Luki Velikie, while the 18!» ” 190 See above, p. 253. PSZ, V, no. 3,380, p. 701. See above, p. 254. TsGADA, f. 9 otdelenie 2 dclo 93 1. 195v. 1H9 190
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