Governor-General of Baltic provinces explained

The governor-general of the Baltic provinces or governor-general of Estonia, Livonia, and Courland was the military commander of the Riga Military District and the highest administrator of the Baltic governorates of Estonia, Livonia and Courland sporadically under Russian rule in the 19th century.

List of Russian governors-general of the Baltic provinces

Governors-general of Riga

• Anikita Repnin (1710–1726) appointed by Peter I of Russia
• Peter Lacy (1729-1740)

Governors-general of Livonia

• Vladimir Petrovich Dolgorukiy (1758–1761)^[1]
• George Browne (1762–1791)
• Nicholas Repnin (1792–1796) as the Governor-General of Livonia and Estonia

Governors-general of Livonia, Estonia and Courland in Riga

• Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen (1800–1801) Governor-General of Courland since 1795
• Sergei Fyodorovich Golitsyn (ru) (1801–1803)
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1803–1807),
• Alexander Tormasov (1807)
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1808–1810) as the Governor-General of Livonia and Courland
• Dmitry Ivanovich Lobanov-Rostovsky (1810–1812)
• Filippo Paulucci (1812–1830)
• Carl Magnus von der Pahlen (ru) (1830–1845)
• Yevgeny Golovin (1845–1848)
• Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov (1848–1861)
• Wilhelm Heinrich von Lieven (ru) (1861–1864)
• Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1864–1866)
• Johann Eduard von Baranoff (ru) (1866)
• Peter Albedinskiy (ru) (1866–1870)
• Peter Bagrationi (1870–1876)

See also

• Governors-General of Swedish Livonia
• List of rulers of Estonia

Notes and References

1. Eric Amburger: Geschichte der Behördenorganisation Russlands von Peter dem Grossen bis 1917 lk. 387-388