Moscow Governorate

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Moscow Governorate Московская губерния
Governorate of Russian Empire
1708–1929
Coat of arms
Map of Moscow Governorate
Capital	Moscow
Population
• 1897	2,430,581
History
• Established	1708
• Disestablished	1929
Succeeded by Moscow Oblast

Map of Moscow Governorate in 1873 with uyezds

Moscow Governorate (Russian: Московская губерния; pre-reform Russian: Московская губернія), or the Government of Moscow, was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1708–1929.

Administrative division[]

Moscow Governorate consisted of 13 uyezds (their administrative centres in brackets):

• Bogorodsky Uyezd (Bogorodsk/Noginsk)
• Bronnitsky Uyezd (Bronnitsy)
• Vereysky Uyezd (Vereya)
• Volokolamsky Uyezd (Volokolamsk)
• Dmitrovsky Uyezd (Dmitrov)
• Zvenigorodsky Uyezd (Zvenigorod)
• Klinsky Uyezd (Klin)
• Kolomensky Uyezd (Kolomna)
• Mozhaysky Uyezd (Mozhaysk)
• Moskovsky Uyezd (Moscow)
• Podolsky Uyezd (Podolsk)
• Ruzsky Uyezd (Ruza)
• Serpukhovsky Uyezd (Serpukhov)

History[]

Moscow Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict.^[1] As with the rest of the governorates, initially, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Moscow Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.^[2] Later, Moscow Governorate was subdivided into 13 uyezds.

The governorate underwent numerous changes in the following years, and was finally abolished on January 14, 1929 when modern Moscow Oblast was created.

Demography[]

Language[]

• Population by mother tongue according to the Imperial census of 1897.

Religion[]

• According to the Imperial census of 1897.^[3]

References[]

Further reading[]

• William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Moscow", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library

 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Moscow (government)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Coordinates: 55°45′06″N 37°37′04″E / 55.7517°N 37.6178°E / 55.7517; 37.6178