Saint Petersburg Governorate

Saint Petersburg Governorate or Government of Saint Petersburg was a governorate (guberniya

Guberniya

A guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek...

) of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

.

Together with seven other governorates, it was established by Tsar

Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or Tzar in English, is a Slavic term with Bulgarian origins used to designate certain monarchs...

 Peter the Great

Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V....

's edict (ukase

Ukase

Ukase in Imperial Russia was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader that had the force of law. Adequate translations are "edict" or "decree" of Roman law....

) as Ingermanland Governorate on December 29 (December 18 in the Julian calendar

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus...

), 1708 out of territories conquered from the Swedish Empire

Swedish Empire

Sweden was, between 1611 and 1718, one of the great powers of Europe. In modern historiography this period is known as the Swedish Empire, or stormaktstiden .-Sweden's emergence into a great power:...

 in the Great Northern War

Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania and Saxony engaged Sweden for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea. The war ended with a defeat for Sweden in 1721, leaving Russia as the new major power in the Baltic Sea and...

.

As with the rest of the governorates, Ingermanland Governorate's borders were not set.

Saint Petersburg Governorate or Government of Saint Petersburg was a governorate (guberniya

Guberniya

A guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek...

) of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

.

Together with seven other governorates, it was established by Tsar

Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or Tzar in English, is a Slavic term with Bulgarian origins used to designate certain monarchs...

 Peter the Great

Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V....

's edict (ukase

Ukase

Ukase in Imperial Russia was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader that had the force of law. Adequate translations are "edict" or "decree" of Roman law....

) as Ingermanland Governorate on December 29 (December 18 in the Julian calendar

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus...

), 1708 out of territories conquered from the Swedish Empire

Swedish Empire

Sweden was, between 1611 and 1718, one of the great powers of Europe. In modern historiography this period is known as the Swedish Empire, or stormaktstiden .-Sweden's emergence into a great power:...

 in the Great Northern War

Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania and Saxony engaged Sweden for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea. The war ended with a defeat for Sweden in 1721, leaving Russia as the new major power in the Baltic Sea and...

.

As with the rest of the governorates, Ingermanland Governorate's borders were not set. Instead, it was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.

Cities included into Ingermanland Governorate at the time of its establishment

#	City	#	City	#	City
1.	St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...	12.	Narva Narva Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, by the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus.-Early history:...	23.	Staraya Rusa Staraya Russa Staraya Russa is an old Russian town located 99 km south of Veliky Novgorod. It is the administrative center of Starorussky District of Novgorod Oblast in Russia and a wharf on the Polist River . It is the third largest town in Novgorod Oblast. Population: 35,511 ; 41,538...
2.	Beloozero Belozersk Belozersk , known as Beloozero until 1777 , is a town in Vologda Oblast, Russia, situated on the southern bank of the Lake Beloye, from which it takes the name. Population: -History:...	13.	Olonets Olonets Olonets is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on the Olonka River, to the east from Lake Ladoga. It is the administrative centre of Olonetsky District. According to the 2002 Russian Census, the population of the town is 10,240...	24.	Toropets Toropets Toropets is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, where the Toropa River enters Lake Solomeno. Population: 14,600 ; 17,510 .-History:...
3.	Bezhetskoy Verkh Bezhetsk Bezhetsk is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Mologa River at its confluence with the Ostrechina River. Population: 28,643 ; 29,000 .-History:...	14.	Opochek Opochka Opochka is a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Velikaya River, 130 km south of Pskov, in the proximity of Pushkin's family home Mikhailovskoye. It is the birth place of architect Lev Rudnev and geologist Nikolai Kudryavtsev. Population: 13,964 .-External links:*...	25.	Torzhok Torzhok Torzhok is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, famous for its folk craft of goldwork embroidery. Population: -Geography:The town is situated on the Tvertsa River, 38 miles northwest of Tver, and 145 miles from Moscow...
4.	Derptskoy uyezd Tartu For the French captain, see Jean-François TartuTartu is the second largest city of Estonia. In contrast to Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn, Tartu is often considered the intellectual and cultural hub, especially since it is home to Estonia's oldest and most renowned university....	15.	Ostrov	26.	Tver Tver Tver is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Tver Oblast. Population: 405,500 ; 408,903 . Tver, which is located north of Moscow, was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in Imperial Russia with population of 60,000 onJanuary 14, 1913...
5.	Gdov Gdov Gdov is a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia, situated on the river Gdovka, just two kilometers from its outflow into Lake Peipus. Population:...	16.	Porkhov Porkhov Porkhov is a medieval fortress and a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Shelon River, 75 km east of Pskov. Population: 12,263 ....	27.	Uglich Uglich Uglich is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, on the Volga River. Population: A local tradition dates the town's origins to 937. It was first documented in 1148 as Ugliche Pole...
6.	Izborsk Izborsk Izborsk is a village in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. It contains one of the most ancient and impressive fortresses of Western Russia....	17.	Poshekhonye Poshekhonye Poshekhonye is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located north-west of Yaroslavl. It stands on the Sogozha River . Population:...	28.	Ustyuzhna Zheleznopolskaya Ustyuzhna Ustyuzhna is a town in the western part of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Mologa River. It was first mentioned, as Ustyug-Zhelezny, in 1252, and in the following century was called variously Ustizhna, Ustizhnya, Ustyuzhnya, and Yustyzhnya; from the 16th through the 18th centuries it was...
7.	Kargopol Kargopol Kargopol is a town in and the administrative center of Kargopolsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It is situated on both sides of the Onega River several miles north of Lake Lacha...	18.	Pskov Pskov Pskov is an ancient city located in the north-west of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. The city of Pskov serves as the administrative center of Pskov Oblast...	29.	Veliky Novgorod Veliky Novgorod Veliky Novgorod is the foremost historic city of North-Western Russia and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast. It is situated on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg. Translated from Russian, its name means roughly "The Great New City" or "The Big New City"...
8.	Kashin	19.	Romanov Tutayev Tutayev is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Population: Before 1918, the settlement was called Romanov-Borisoglebsk , and before 1822, when an order of the tsar united them, there were two separate towns: Romanov and Borisoglebsk...	30.	Yamburg Kingisepp Kingisepp , formerly Yamburg and Jama , is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies along the Luga River, 137 km west of St. Petersburg, 20 km east of Narva, and 49 km south of the Gulf of Finland...
9.	Koporye Koporye Koporye is a historic village in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located about 100 km to the west of St. Petersburg and 12 km south of the Koporye Bay of the Baltic Sea...	20.	Rzheva pustaya (Zavolochye) Novorzhev Novorzhev is a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located some 144 km southeast of Pskov, on the Sorot River. Population: 4,100 ; 4,125 . The town was incorporated during Catherine the Great's municipal reform of 1777....	31.	Yaroslavl Yaroslavl Yaroslavl is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, located north-east of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. Population:...
10.	Ladoga Novaya Ladoga Novaya Ladoga is a town in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the point where the Volkhov River flows into Lake Ladoga, some 140 km east of Saint Petersburg. Population: 9,920 ; 11,310 ....	21.	Rzheva Volodimirova Rzhev Rzhev is the uppermost town situated on the Volga River. It is located in Tver Oblast of Western Russia, 49 km southwest of Staritsa and 126 km from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Riga...
11.	Luki Velikiye Velikiye Luki Velikiye Luki ; name also romanized as Velikie Luki, is a city on the meandering Lovat River in the southern part of Pskov Oblast, Russia. Its name is translated as "Great Meanders"...	22.	Shlisselburg Shlisselburg Shlisselburg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg. From 1944 to 1992, it was known as Petrokrepost...

The governorate was renamed St. Petersburg Governorate on June 3, 1710, after the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...

 by Peter I

Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V....

's edict, and in 1721 the former Swedish

Dominions of Sweden

The Dominions of Sweden or Svenska besittningar were territories that historically came under control of the Swedish Crown, but never became fully integrated with Sweden. This generally meant that they were ruled by Governors-General under the Swedish monarch, but within certain limits retained...

 of Duchy of Ingria, and parts of the County of Kexholm and the County of Viborg and Nyslott were formally ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad

Treaty of Nystad

The Treaty of Nystad was signed in 1721 in the then Swedish town of Nystad . It ended the Great Northern War, in which Russia received the territories of Estonia, Livonia and Ingria, as well as much of Karelia and number of islands in the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Tsar Peter I of Russia replaced...

. After the Treaty of Åbo

Treaty of Åbo

The Treaty of Åbo or the Treaty of Turku was a peace treaty signed between the Russian Empire and Sweden in Turku on 7 August, 1743 in the wake of the Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743....

 in 1743, the parts of Kexholm and Viborg were joined with new territorial gains from Sweden into the Governorate of Vyborg

Governorate of Vyborg

The Governorate of Vyborg was a governorate of the Russian Empire from 1743 to 1917. In 1812 it was made part of the Grand Duchy of Finland, in the Russian Empire.- History :...

 .

From August 18, 1914 to January 26, 1924 it was named Petrograd Governorate, and in 1924-1927 — Leningrad Governorate. It was abolished on August 1, 1927 when modern Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It was established on August 1, 1927, although it was not until 1946 that the oblast's borders had been mostly settled in their present position. The oblast was named after the city of Leningrad. The first governor of Leningrad Oblast was Vadim...

 was created.

General Governors

• Prince Aleksandr Menshikov, October 12, 1702 ;– May 1724
• Pyotr Apraksin, May 1724 – January 1725
• Prince Aleksandr Menshikov January 1725 – 8 September 1727
• Jan Sapieha
  Jan Kazimierz Sapieha the Elder
  Jan Kazimierz Sapieha the Elder was a Grand Hetman of Lithuania since 1708 to 1709.He was the son of Franciszek Stefan Sapieha, father of Piotr Paweł Sapieha and Paweł Sapieha. A supporter of Stanisław Leszczyński, he took part in many battles of the Great Northern War...
  
   1727 – 1728
• Khristofor Minikh January 1728 – 1734 War Governor
• Nikolai Golovin 1742
• Peter Lacy
  Peter Lacy
  Count Peter von Lacy, or Pyotr Petrovich Lacy , as he was known in Russia , was one of the most successful Russian imperial commanders before Rumyantsev and Suvorov...
  
   1743
• Vasily Repnin 1744
• Stepan Ignatiev 1744
• Boris Yusupov
  Yusupov
  Yusupov, , or Yusupova, , is a Russian surname of Tatar origin. It may refer to:*House of Yusupov, noble Russian family...
  
   1749
• Prince Mikhail Golitsin 1752 – 1754
• Peter August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck 1762
• Ivan Neplyuyev
  Ivan Neplyuyev
  Ivan Ivanovich Neplyuyev was a Russian diplomat and administrator prominent in the service of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. His memoirs were published posthumously and his statue may be seen in Orenburg, the city he founded.Neplyuev was born into an impoverished noble family in Poddubye...
  
   1762 – 1764
• Ivan Glebov 1767
• Prince Aleksander Golitsin October 1769 – 8 October 1783
• Jacob Bruce 1784 – 6 October 1791
• Aleksander Romanov
  Alexander I of Russia
  Alexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Emperor 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 and Lithuania.He was born in Saint Petersburg to Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, later...
  
   6 October 1791 – 1797 War Governor
  • Nikolai Arkharov
    Nikolai Arkharov
    Nikolai Petrovich Arkharov was a Russian police chief best known for having given his name to the Russian term "arkharovtsy", an ironic appellation of policemen.Nikolai Arkharov came from a noble family...
    
     6 October 1791 – November 1796, till 15 June 1797 acting General Governor
• Fyodor Buksgevden June 1797 – August 1798
• Pyotr von der Pahlen
  Petr Alekseevich Pahlen
  Count Peter Alekseyevich Pahlen was a Russian courtier who played a pivotal role in the assassination of Emperor Paul. He became a general in 1798, a count in 1799, and was the Military Governor of St...
  
   8 August 1798 – 30 June 1801, till 25 August 1800 acting, from 24 March 1801 War Governor
• Mikhail Kutuzov 30 July 1801 – 9 September 1802 War Governor
• Mikhail Kamenskiy 27 August 1802 – 16 November 1802 War Governor
• Pyotr Tolstoy
  Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy
  Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy was a Russian general and statesman.Pyotr Tolstoy came from the Oryol branch of the Tolstoy family, his father Alexander Tolstoy was a grandson of Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy...
  
   28 November 1802 – 25 January 1803 War Governor
• Andrey Budberg 25 January 1803 – 17 February 1803 War Governor
• Pyotr Tolstoy 28 November 1802 – 10 September 1805 War Governor
  • Nikolai Svechin 1803 – 1806
• Sergey Vyazmitinov
  Sergey Vyazmitinov
  Count Sergey Kuzmich Vyazmitinov , was a Russian general and statesman.He descended from the ancient noble landowner's family of Ruthenian origin, known from end of 15th century...
  
   10 September 1805 – 12 January 1808 War Governor
• Prince Dmitry Lobanov-Rostovskiy 12 January 1808 – 2 February 1809
• Alexander Balashov
  Alexander Balashov
  Alexander Dmitriyevich Balashov was a Russian general and statesman.Balashov came from a noble family. When the boy turned 6 years, his father, a Privy Counsellor and Senator, had him enrolled in the Preobrazhensky Regiment though it was not until November 1781 that he entered the Page Corps,...
  
   14 February 1809 – 9 April 1810
• Sergey Vyazmitinov 10 November 1816 – 31 August 1818 War General Governor
• Mikhail Miloradovich 31 August 1818 – 15 December 1825 War General Governor
• Pavel Golenishchev-Kutuzov 27 December 1825 – 19 February 1830 War General Governor
• Pyotr Essen 17 February 1830 – 14 February 1842 War General Governor
• Aleksander Kavelin 14 February 1842 – 19 April 1846 War General Governor
• Matvey Khrapovitskiy 7 April 1846 – 31 March 1847 War General Governor
• Dmitry Shulgin 3 May 1847 – 1 January 1855 War General Governor
  • Aleksander Stroganov 1854 War Governor
• Pavel Ignatiev 28 December 1854 – 16 November 1861 War General Governor
• Aleksandr Suvorov-Rymnikskiy 16 November 1861 – 16 May 1866 War General Governor
• Iosif Gurko April 1879 – February 1880
• General Grösser February 1880 - 12 January 1905
• Dmitry Trepov 12 January 1905 – 14 April 1905 acting General Governor

Governors

• Fyodor Apraksin 1712 – 1723
• Vasily Saltykov 21 January 1734 – October 1740
• Prince Yakov Shakhovskoy
  Yakov Shakhovskoy
  Prince Yakov Petrovich Shakhovskoy was a Russian statesman.Prince Yakov Shakhovskoy was born in the family of Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Shakhovskoy, who died when Yakov was several months old. His mother remarried twice, but the names of her husbands are unknown...
  
    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
  Dmitry Volkov
  Dmitry Volkov is a former breaststroke swimmer from the Soviet Union, who won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, including the bronze in the 100m Breaststroke and one at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics,...
  
   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 Bakunin
  Mikhail Bakunin
  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism.Born in the Russian Empire to a family of Russian nobles, Bakunin spent his youth as a junior officer in the Russian army but resigned his commission in 1835...
  
   31 January 1808 – 14 July 1816
• Semyon Shcherbinin 15 August 1816 – 23 November 1826
• Aleksandr Bezobrazov
  Aleksandr Bezobrazov
  Aleksandr Bezobrazov was an army officer and aviator of the Imperial Russian Air Force who constructed an experimental fighter aircraft design in 1914. The type was a single-seat triplane on which the wings had an extreme stagger--the upper wing was well forward of the fuselage while the middle...
  
   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
  Donaurov
  Donaurov was a Russian noble family, tracing their descent to the Georgia princely house of Donauri.In 1724, the founder of the Donaurov family followed the Georgian king Vakhtang VI into his Russian exile. His descendants were later established as untitled nobility in the governorates of Kazan...
  
   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, till 22 July 1865 acting
• Nikolay Levashov 22 July 1866 – 8 May 1871
• Iosif Lutkovskiy 9 May 1871 – 2 September 1880, till 30 March 1873 acting
• Fyodor Trepov
  Fyodor Trepov
  Feodor Feodorovich Trepov was a Russian government official.Feodor Trepov began his military career in 1831 by participating in the suppression of the November Uprising in Poland in 1830-1831. He then commanded a cavalry regiment of gendarmes in Kiev...
  
   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

Assembly of Nobility

Assembly of Nobility was the self-government body of the sosloviye of the Russian nobility in Imperial Russia during 1785-1917. The Nobility Assemblies were at the guberniya and uyezd levels. Sometimes it is also translated as Gentry Assembly....

• Aleksandr Kurakin 1780 – 1783
• Adam Olsufiev 1783 – 1784
• Andrey Shuvalov 1784 – 1785
• Aleksander Naryshkin 1788 – 1790
• Aleksander Stroganov 1790 – 1798
• Mikhail Rumyantsev
  Rumyantsev
  The Rumyantsev family were Russian counts prominent in Russian imperial politics in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The family claimed descent from the boyar Rumyanets who broke his oath of allegiance and surrendered Nizhny Novgorod to Vasily I of Moscow in 1391.The first Rumyantsev to gain...
  
   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