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Previously, the Reval Governorate existed during Peter I's reign and was confirmed by the Treaty of Nystad, which ceded territory from Sweden to the newly established Russian Empire. The Estonia Governorate was established in 1796 when Paul I's reforms abolished the Reval Viceroyalty.
Reval Governorate (Russian: Ревельская губерния, romanized: Revel'skaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1719 to 1783.
The Baltic governorates, [a] originally the Ostsee governorates, [b] was a collective name for the administrative units of the Russian Empire set up in the territories of Swedish Estonia, Swedish Livonia (1721) and, afterwards, of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1795).
The Governorate of Estonia, also known as the Esthonia (Estland) Governorate, was a province (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire. It was located in the northern Estonia with some islands in the West Estonian archipelago, including Hiiumaa and Vormsi.
The Estonians and the Russian Empire 131 Baltic cities (Valga [Walk]- 1901 and Tallinn [Reval]- 1904) before 1905.4 The Revolution of 1905, however, signified a watershed in Estonian life and brought a new complexity and pluralism to Estonian aspirations. The goals of the national movement now came to include both cultural and political autonomy.
After the February Revolution in Russia, on 26 March (8 April), Estonian politicians sent a manifesto to Georgy Lvov, Prime Minister of the Interim Government, with a proposal to grant Estonia autonomy, including a project to reorganise the local government in Estland and the Estonian part of Lifland12.
Following the Russian Revolution in February 1917, the Russian provisional government appointed Jaan Poska as governor-general of Estonia. Some 40,000 Estonians demonstrated for autonomy in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) on March 26, 1917.
