Псков, город на Великой

Royal instructions to the mayors on their departure to Pskov demonstrate how complicated and multifunctional the activity of the local administration was. The major activity of the mayor was in maintaining defence potential of the town and the system of fortifications. It was his duty to carefully guard the quantity and guality of weapons, the armoury and the amunition. All military forces were also under his jurisdiction (town nobility, boyar children, kazaks, shooters, gunners etc.) and all the administration staff (scribes, sub-scribes, police-officers, messengers, watchmen) and all soldiers. He was also responsible for taxes, tolls and for administering justice. In the frontier Pskov, the mayor was the head of the local military detachments and he held reviews of his soldiers. It was his responsibilily to recruit new soldiers and support them; to negotiate wit! foreign ambassadors. Since the middle of the 17 th century, Pskov together wit its outskirts, had been constituent of the Novgorodian front line of defence guarding the border with Sweden.
Among Pskov mayors there were distinguished figures of the Russian history: I.P. Shuisky, a hero of the Pskov defence in 1581-1582, who was later undone by Boris Godunov, A.L. Ordyn-Nastshyokin, a Pskovian landowner and a celebrated diplomat and administrator, who finished his life in the Krypetzky : Monastery, Peter the Great's : associates - B.P.Sheremetyev, P.M. Apraxin, I.S. Saltykov, K.A. Naryshkin, I.I. Golovin. The central organ , of the Mayor's government was an Administrative "Izba" (House). It was here that all clerical work was done, judicial investigations were held and justice and punishment were administered. According to the Decree from May 15, 1687 it was renamed into Administrative Chamber . In 1632 the Palace Department was established. It was in charge of royal lands and other royal property.

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