The Permanent Council was the highest deliberative body of the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
, established on April 11, 1801
and abolished in 1810; predecessor of the
State Council State Council may refer to:
Government
* State Council of the Republic of Korea, the national cabinet of South Korea, headed by the President
* State Council of the People's Republic of China, the national cabinet and chief administrative auth ...
.
It consisted of twelve representatives of the titled nobility under the emperor
Alexander I Alexander I may refer to:
* Alexander I of Macedon, king of Macedon 495–454 BC
* Alexander I of Epirus (370–331 BC), king of Epirus
* Pope Alexander I (died 115), early bishop of Rome
* Pope Alexander I of Alexandria (died 320s), patriarch of ...
(representatives were
Dmitry Troshchinsky
Dmitry Prokofievich Troshchinsky (russian: Дмитрий Прокофьевич Трощинский; ; October 26, 1749 – February 26, 1829) was a Russian Imperial statesman of Ukrainian origin, senior Cabinet Secretary (1793–98), Prosecut ...
,
Pyotr Zavadovsky
Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812) was a Russian Imperial statesman of Ukrainian origin. He was a favourite (lover) of Russian Empress Catherine the Great from 1776 to 1777.
Count Zavadovsky was named official secretary to Catherine in 1775 and becam ...
,
Alexander Vorontsov
Count Alexander Romanovich Vorontsov (russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Воронцо́в) (4 February 17412 December 1805) was the Chancellor of the Russian Empire during the early years of Alexander I's reign.
He began his ca ...
,
Platon Zubov
Prince Platon Alexandrovich Zubov (russian: Платон Александрович Зубов; ) was the last of Catherine the Great's favourites and the most powerful man in the Russian Empire during the last years of her reign.
Life
The princ ...
and
Valerian Zubov
Count Valerian Aleksandrovich Zubov (1771–1804) was a Russian general who led the Persian Expedition of 1796. His siblings included Platon Zubov and Olga Zherebtsova.
As a young man Zubov had flattering prospects of a brilliant military caree ...
, and others), the chairman was Count
Nikolai Saltykov
Count, then Prince Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov (russian: Николай Иванович Салтыков, 31 October 1736 – 28 May 1816), a member of the Saltykov noble family, was a Russian Imperial Field Marshal and courtier best known a ...
.
The council could protest the actions and ''
Ukase
In Imperial Russia, a ukase () or ukaz (russian: указ ) was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader (patriarch) that had the force of law. "Edict" and "decree" are adequate translations using the terminology and concepts ...
s'' of the emperor. At the beginning of its activities, the Permanent Council considered a number of important issues and prepared
several reforms, including a Decree on Free Ploughmen.
With the establishment of ministries and the Committee of Ministers in 1802, insignificant and intricate cases came to the consideration of the Permanent Council, and after the establishment of the
State Council State Council may refer to:
Government
* State Council of the Republic of Korea, the national cabinet of South Korea, headed by the President
* State Council of the People's Republic of China, the national cabinet and chief administrative auth ...
, the Permanent Council was finally abolished.
See also
*
Private Committee
The Privy Committee (russian: Негласный комитет; also referred to as the Unofficial Committee) was an unofficial consultative body during the reign of Alexander I in Russia.
The Private Committee was operational from June 1801 unt ...
Sources
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''"Decree “On the Establishment of an Permanent Council for Considering Important State Affairs"''
References
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Emperor Alexander I
Government of the Russian Empire
Organizations established in 1801
1810 disestablishments