Stelepin's Reformation of the Russian Administrative System

The main object of nearly all those proposals was how to address the big question of bringing all the x serfs fully into the system. Stelepin would spend the rest of his short life try to implement these reforms. At its broadest level, russia was divided into governrets. There were more than 60 in total, with about 50 inside of great russia itself. Nearly all of them were defined by boundaries created during the reign of catherine the great.