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Count Jacob Sievers (August 30th, 1731 in Wesenberg
Rakvere

Rakvere is a town in northern Estonia and the county seat of L??ne-Viru County, 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland....
 in Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
 - Juli 23rd, 1808 in Bauenhof in Livland) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n statesman and reformer of Baltic German family.

After serving the Russian army during the Seven Years' War
Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War lasted between 1756?1763 and involved all of the major European powers of the period. The war pitted Kingdom of Prussia and Kingdom of Great Britain and a coalition of smaller German states against an alliance consisting of Archduchy of Austria, Early Modern France, Russian Empire, Kingdom of Sweden, and Electorate of Sa...
 as quartermaster general
Quartermaster general

A Quartermaster general is the staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army....
, Catharine II appointed him governor of Novgorod in 1764. He introduced the cultivation of potato
Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
es to Russia, regulated the postal service
Postal service

Postal service may refer to:*Postal administration, a country's organization providing postal services and postal policies*Mail, anything sent through postal services...
s ernannt, and was instrumental in the abolition of torture
Torture

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadism gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors M...
 in 1767.

Based on Sievers' initiative, the provincial government reform was instituted; he was himself appointed general governor of Novgorod, Tver
Tver

Tver is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, the administrative center of Tver Oblast. Population: 405,500 ; 408,903 . Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in Imperial Russia with population of 60,000 on...
 and Pskow.






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Count Jacob Sievers (August 30th, 1731 in Wesenberg
Rakvere

Rakvere is a town in northern Estonia and the county seat of L??ne-Viru County, 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland....
 in Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
 - Juli 23rd, 1808 in Bauenhof in Livland) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n statesman and reformer of Baltic German family.

After serving the Russian army during the Seven Years' War
Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War lasted between 1756?1763 and involved all of the major European powers of the period. The war pitted Kingdom of Prussia and Kingdom of Great Britain and a coalition of smaller German states against an alliance consisting of Archduchy of Austria, Early Modern France, Russian Empire, Kingdom of Sweden, and Electorate of Sa...
 as quartermaster general
Quartermaster general

A Quartermaster general is the staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army....
, Catharine II appointed him governor of Novgorod in 1764. He introduced the cultivation of potato
Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
es to Russia, regulated the postal service
Postal service

Postal service may refer to:*Postal administration, a country's organization providing postal services and postal policies*Mail, anything sent through postal services...
s ernannt, and was instrumental in the abolition of torture
Torture

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadism gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors M...
 in 1767.

Based on Sievers' initiative, the provincial government reform was instituted; he was himself appointed general governor of Novgorod, Tver
Tver

Tver is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, the administrative center of Tver Oblast. Population: 405,500 ; 408,903 . Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in Imperial Russia with population of 60,000 on...
 and Pskow. He was Russian embassador to Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 and led the second and third partition
Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth....
 of the kingdom. Czar Paul
Paul I of Russia

Paul was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801....
 appointed him senator in 1796; in 1797 he became head of the new department for water communications. He was knighted in 1798.

In Sievers honor, Alexander I
Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Tsar of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland....
 named the channel that connects the outlet of the Msta
MSTA

The 2S19 Msta is a conventional self-propelled 152 mm howitzer designed by Russia/Soviet Union and entering service in 1989. It is based on the T-80U tank hull, but powered by the T-72's diesel engine....
 river with the Volkhov
Volkhov

Volkhov is an industrial town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated 122 km east of Saint Petersburg, on the Volkhov River. Population: 46,100 , 46,596 ....
 river the Sievers channel.

Literature

  • Blum, Karl Ludwig: Ein russischer Staatsmann, Denkwürdigkeiten des Grafen von Sievers, Leipzig 1857-58, 4 Bände
  • Blum, Karl Ludwig: Graf Jacob Johann von Sievers und Russland zu dessen Zeit. Leipzig; Heidelberg: Winter, 1864
  • Jones, Robert E: Provincial Development in Russia. Catherine II and Jacob Sievers. Rutgers University Press 1984