Caucasus Viceroyalty (1785–1796)

Caucasus Viceroyalty
Кавказское наместничество
Caucasus Viceroyalty Кавказское наместничество
Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire
1785–1796
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Capital	Yekaterinograd
• Type	Viceroyalty
History
• Established	1785
• Disestablished	1796
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Taurida Oblast
	Astrakhan Governorate
Astrakhan Governorate

The Caucasus Viceroyalty (Russian: Кавказское наместничество) was established in 1785 by Catherine the Great by combining the Astrakhan Governorate and the Caucasus Governorate.^[1] It was abolished by Paul I in 1796.^[2]

Viceroys

The five viceroys or heads of the viceroyalty were:^{[citation needed]}

time	name	life span
1785–1787	Pavel Sergeevich Potemkin	1743–1796
1787–1789	Pyotr Abramovich Tekelli	1720−1793
1789–1790	Ivan Petrovich Saltykov	1730–1805
1790	Anton Bogdanovich de Balmen	1741–1790
1790–1796, 1796–1798, 1806–1809	Ivan Vasilyevich Gudovich	1741–1820

References

^ Blauvelt, Timothy K. (12 March 2020). The Caucasus in the Russian Empire. Routledge Handbooks Online. p. 108. doi:10.4324/9781351055628-7. ISBN 978-1-138-48318-7.
^ Blauvelt, Timothy K. (12 March 2020). The Caucasus in the Russian Empire. Routledge Handbooks Online. p. 112. doi:10.4324/9781351055628-7. ISBN 978-1-138-48318-7.

[1] Blauvelt, Timothy K. (12 March 2020). The Caucasus in the Russian Empire. Routledge Handbooks Online. p. 108. doi:10.4324/9781351055628-7. ISBN 978-1-138-48318-7.

[2] Blauvelt, Timothy K. (12 March 2020). The Caucasus in the Russian Empire. Routledge Handbooks Online. p. 112. doi:10.4324/9781351055628-7. ISBN 978-1-138-48318-7.

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