265 Guberniia 1. Sankt-Pcterburgskaia 2. Moskovskaia 3. Kievskaia 4. Azovskaia 5. Rizhskaia 6. Arkhangelogorodskaia 7. Sibirskaia 8. Kazanskaia 9. Nizhegorodskaia 10. Astrakhanskaia Total No. of Provinces 12 9 4 6 2 4 5 4 3 1 50 Governors, voevodas, ober-komendanty, and kornendanty were all appointed by the Senate according to the voting procedure stipulated by the General Regulation, and then sworn in before that same body. The lower officials, however, were appointed by the colleges and swore their oaths of office before those bodies.^”^ The voevodas were subordinated to the governors only in such military matters as, for example, the recruitment of soldiers.’**'”’ Parallel with this provincial reform, a reorganization of town administration was also undertaken. As we have seen earlier, the commercial interests in the towns had lost a great deal of self-government in connection with the guberniia reform of 1708—1710. The administrative organs in the towns had been made dependent upon the gubernii, since the election of burghomasters (burmistry), for example, was to be conducted “with the knowledge of the governor. 196 Plans began to take shape in 1718 for a centralization and systematization of town administration. Here, too, one finds that Heinrich Pick was very active and that he had a good deal of influence. In his memorandum of May 9, 1718, referred to above, he wrote that “to establish town magistracies and to provide them with good rules is one of the most important measures to be desired for all the colleges, and especially the kommerts-kollegiia, for without it one cannot achieve the desired order and obtain its good fruits.” This observation evoked the following notation from the tsar: “Execute this for all towns on the basis of Riga’s and Reval’s regulations, of Russian towns was to be organized Peter thus stipulated that the administration on the model of Riga and Reval, ” 197 TsGADA, f. 248 delo 654 1. 206; PSZ, V, no. .^393, p. 717. Slitsan, 327. i»» ZA (no. 376), 365. ZA (no. 269), 223. Peter’s resolution was dated June 11, 1718. 194 195
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