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 1184 RUSSIA

2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — Minister : Actual State Councillor Sazonoff, appointed 1910.

3. Mi'Aistry of rFar. —Minister : General Sukhomlinoff, appointed 1909.

4. Ministry of the A^a^-?/. — Minister : Vice- Admiral Grigorovich, appointed 1911.

5 Ministry of the /u^mor. —Minister : Privy Councillor MaUakoff appointed 1911

6. Ministry of Public. Instruction.— yimhUx : Privy Councillor Casso, appointed 1910.

7. Ministry of Finance.- -MimstQi- : Actual Privy Councillor Kokovtseff', appointed Minister, 1906.

8. Ministry of Justice. — Minister : Privy Councillor S'hcheglovitoff, ap- pointed 1906.

9. General Direction of Land Organization and Agriculture. — General Director: Actual Privy Councillor Krivoshcin, appointed 1908.

10. Ministry of Ways of Communications.— Mmister : Privy Councillor Bukhloff, appointed 1909.

11. Mhiistry of Commerce and of Industry. — Minister: Privy Councillor Timashcff, appointed 1909.

12. Department of General Control.— QoniYo\\eYGQ\iQVd\ : Privy Councillor Kharitonoff, appointed 1907.

13. ^0^2/ 'S'y^ioc?.— Procurator-General: Actual State Councillor Sabler.

14. (General Direction of State Studs.— GawGYsX Zdano'oich.

The Emperor has two Private Cabinets, one of which is occupied with charitable affairs, and the other is devoted to public instruction of girls and to the administration of the institutions established by the late Empress Maria, mother of the Emperor J^icnolas I. Besides, there is the Imperial Head- Quarters (Glavnaya Kvartira), and a Cabinet, which is entrusted also with the reception of petitions presented to the Emperor, formerly received by a special Court of Requests (abolished in 1884). According to a law of May 19, 1888, a special Imperial Cabinet having three sections (Economy, Mines and Manufactures and Legislation) has been created, instead of the same depart- ments in the Ministry of Imperial Household.

Local Government.

The Empire is divided into governments and provinces [ohlast), the subdivisions of which are districts or circuits {uijezd in the governments and okrug in the provinces). There are 78 governments (49 in European Russia proper, 10 in Poland, 8 in Finland, 7 in Caucasus^ 4 in Siberia) ; 21 provinces ^1 in European Russia, 5 in Caucasus, 9 in Central Asia, 6 in Siberia, and 2 circuits, those of Sukhum and Zakataly in Caucasus. Some of the governments or provinces are united into general governments. At the head of each general government is a governor-general, the representa- tive of the emperor, who as such has the supreme control and direction