Caucasus Viceroyalty Кавказское наместничество | |||||||||||
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Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||
1785–1796 | |||||||||||
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Capital | Yekaterinograd | ||||||||||
• Type | Viceroyalty | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1785 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1796 | ||||||||||
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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]
The five viceroys or heads of the viceroyalty were:[ citation needed]
time | name | life span |
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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 |