Governorate-General (Russian Empire)


Governorate-General 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 or military guberniya. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg governorates were designated into a separate governorate-generals.

Description

Governorate-General was governed by governor-general, a military leader of the land. Governor-generals supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of the subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorate-Generals