264 remaining seven provinces could be administered by non-military men. This same proposal had been adopted as a preliminary plan by the Senate in late 1718, and the Senate’s final ukaz of May 29, 1719 also embraced the principles put forth by Pick. In this ukaz, ober-komendanty were appointed to head the provinces of Viborg and Narva, while a generalguhernator was appointed at Reval, a komendant, or voevoda “of military rank,” was installed at Luki Velikie, and voevodas were appointed to the Table 3 provides a comparison of the 191 192 seven remaining provinces. Senate’s preliminary plan and the final ukaz. This analysis of the administrative subdivision of the St. Petersburg guherniia has shown that the local administrative reform of 1719 was planned and carried out, at least in its initial stages, in accordance with the pattern presented by the Swedish local administrative structure. In legal terms, the guhernii and provinces carved out of the old St. Petersburg guberniia were to have equal status as administrative units, while the militarily important border provinces, as was the case in Sweden, were to be classified as gubernii. Whether or not the rest of the realm was organized in detail according to the example of the St. Petersburg guberniia, and if so how, remains unknown. For the country as a whole, it is only possible to show the subdivision into provinces of the gubernii which had been set up in 1708: TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 II. 328—329v. Ibid., 1. 322v. According to the ukaz of May 29, 1719, PSZ, V, no. 3,380, pp. 701—703, the officeholders in the provinces of the St. Petersburg guberniia were: 1. St. Petersburg Governor General, Prince A. D. Menshikov Voevoda, Colonel Feofilat’ev Judge {landrikhter), F. Manukov Governor, Colonel I. Shuvalov Governor, Major General Busch Governor General, Admiral F. M. Apraksin Governor, Colonel la. L. Postel’nikov Voevoda, Prince lu. Khilkov Voevoda, I. A. Rzhevskii Voevoda, P. A. Lobkov Voevoda, A. I. Naryshkin Voevoda, F. E. Buturlin Voevoda, D. A. Bestuzhev Voevoda, I. I. Liapunov 2. Viborg 3. Narva 4. Reval 5. Luki Velikie 6. Novgorod 7. Pskov 8. Tver’ 9. laroslavl’ 10. Uglich 11. Poshekhon’e 12. Belo-Ozero TsGADA, f. 248 delo 654 1. 205. The previously independent Smolensk guberniia was absorbed into the Riga guberniia in the ukaz of 1719, PSZ, V, no. 3,380, p. 707; see, too, Mrochek-Drozdovskii, 24. The ukaz of 1719 also Indicated the number of tax units or homesteads for each province. 193
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