The Saint Petersburg Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Saint Petersburg. The governorate was composed of 44613 km2 of area and 2,112,033 inhabitants. It was bordered by Estonian and Livonian Governorates to the west, Pskov Governorate to the south, Novgorod Governorate to the east, Olonets Governorate to the northeast, and Vyborg Governorate of the Grand Duchy of Finland to the north. The governorate covered most of the areas of modern Leningrad Oblast and Ida-Viru, Jõgeva, Tartu, Põlva, and Võru counties of Estonia.

Establishment

Ingermanland Governorate (Ингерманла́ндская губе́рния, Ingermanlandskaya guberniya) was created from 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, 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. By another edict on June 3, 1710, the governorate was renamed St. Petersburg Governorate after the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg, and in 1721 the former Swedish Duchy of Ingria, and parts of the County of Kexholm and the County of Viborg and Nyslott were formally ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Nystad. After the Treaty of Åbo in 1743, the parts of Kexholm and Viborg were joined with new territorial gains from Sweden into the Governorate of Vyborg. From August 18, 1914 to January 26, 1924 it was named Petrograd Governorate, and during 1924–1927 — Leningrad Governorate. It was abolished on August 1, 1927 when modern Leningrad Oblast was created.

Administrative divisions

The governorate was composed of eight counties (uezds) as of January 1, 1914. Follows the table:

Supernumerary town

Former city

Governorate administration

General Governors

Governors

• Fyodor Apraksin 1712 – 1723 • Vasily Saltykov 21 January 1734 – October 1740 • Prince Yakov Shakhovskoy October 1740 – November 1740 • Prince Vasily Nesvitsky 23 July 1761 – 17 April 1764 • Stepan Ushakov 21 April 1764 – 21 April 1773 • Stepan Perfiliev 22 September 1773 – 10 September 1774 • Karl Ungern-Sternverg 12 September 1774 – 25 July 1779 • Dmitry Volkov 4 August 1779 – 1780 • Ustin Potapov 4 August 1780 – 1 January 1784 • Pyotr Tarbeev 1 April 1784 – 18 March 1785 • Pyotr Konovnitsin 18 March 1785 – 2 September 1793 • Nikita Ryleev 2 September 1793 – 9 June 1797 • Ivan Alekseev 9 June 1797 – 28 August 1797 • Ivan Grevens 28 August 1797 – 21 December 1798 • Dmitry Glinka 22 December 1798 – 2 March 1800 • Prokopy Mishchersky 7 March 1800 – 1 June 1800 • Nikolay Khotyaintsev 1 June 1800 – 5 June 1801 • Pyotr Pankratiev 5 June 1801 – 19 July 1802 • Sergey Kushnikov 19 July 1802 – 28 October 1804 • Pyotr Paseviev 28 October 1804 – 31 January 1808 • Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin 31 January 1808 – 14 July 1816 • Semyon Shcherbinin 15 August 1816 – 23 November 1826 • Aleksandr Bezobrazov 25 November 1826 – 27 January 1829 • Ivan Khrapovitskiy 27 January 1829 – 11 December 1835 • Mikhail Zhemchuzhnikov 11 December 1835 – 30 December 1840 • Vasily Sheremetev 10 January 1841 – 28 June 1843 • Nikolay Zhukovskiy 10 August 1843 – 8 April 1851 • Pyotr Donaurov 8 April 1851 – 7 April 1855 • Nikolai Smirnov 7 April 1855 – 1 January 1861 • Aleksandr Bobrinsky 12 January 1861 – 13 March 1864 • Vladimir Skaryatin 20 March 1864 – 1 January 1865 • Lev Perovskiy 1 January 1865 – 22 July 1866, until 22 July 1865 acting • Nikolay Levashov 22 July 1866 – 8 May 1871 • Iosif Lutkovskiy 9 May 1871 – 2 September 1880, until 30 March 1873 acting • Fyodor Trepov 1873 - 1878 • Sergey Tol 2 September 1880 – May 1903 • Aleksandr Zinoviev 6 March 1903 – January 1911 • Aleksandr Adlerberg 9 January 1911 – 18 August 1914

Marshals of the nobility

Served as chair of the Assembly of Nobility • Alexander Kurakin 1780 – 1783 • Adam Olsufiev 1783 – 1784 • Andrey Shuvalov 1784 – 1785 • Aleksander Naryshkin 1788 – 1790 • Aleksander Stroganov 1790 – 1798 • Mikhail Rumyantsev 1798 – 1801 • Pyotr Razumovsky 1801 – 1805 • Aleksander Stroganov 1805 – 1811 • Aleksey Zherebtsov 1811 – 1814 • Ilya Bezborodko 1814 – 1815 • Aleksey Zherebtsov 1815 – 1818 • Arkadiy Nelidov 1826 – 1830 • Dmitriy Durnovo 1830 – 1833 • Prince Vasiliy Dolgorukov 1833 – 1839 • Prince Golitsin 24 February 1839 – 1842 • Mikhail Potyomkin 21 March 1842 – 24 March 1854 • Pyotr Shuvalov 24 March 1854 – 29 March 1863 • Grigoriy Shcherbatov 29 March 1863 – 8 March 1866 • Vladimir Orlov-Davydov 8 March 1866 – 21 March 1869 • Aleksandr Bobrinskiy 21 March 1869 – 18 April 1872 • Andrey Shuvalov 18 April 1872 – 14 April 1876 • Aleksey Bobrinskiy 14 April 1876 – 27 January 1890 • Aleksandr Mordvinov 27 January 1890 – 1891 • Aleksandr Trubnikov 1891 – 1 February 1893 • Aleksey Bobrinskiy 1 February 1893 – 8 February 1897 • Aleksandr Zinoviev 8 February 1897 – February 1904 • Vasiliy Gudovich 15 February 1904 – March 1909 • Ivan Saltykov 8 March 1909 – 1915