Saint Petersburg Governorate (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргская губе́рния, Sankt-Peterburgskaya guberniya), or Government of Saint Petersburg, was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1708–1927.
The governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established by Tsar Peter the Great's edict as Ingermanland Governorate (Ингерманла́ндская губе́рния, Ingermanlandskaya guberniya) on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708 on the territories conquered from the Swedish Empire in the Great Northern War. As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Ingermanland Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.
By another edict on June 3, 1710, the governorate was renamed St. Petersburg Governorate after the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg, and in 1721 the former Swedish Duchy of Ingria, and parts of the County of Kexholm and the County of Viborg and Nyslott were formally ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad. After the Treaty of Åbo in 1743, the parts of Kexholm and Viborg were joined with new territorial gains from Sweden into the Governorate of Vyborg (Russian: Выборгская губерния).
From August 18, 1914 to January 26, 1924 it was named Petrograd Governorate, and in 1924-1927 — Leningrad Governorate. It was abolished on August 1, 1927 when modern Leningrad Oblast was created.
Prince Aleksandr Menshikov 12 October 1702 – May 1724
Pyotr Apraksin May 1724 – January 1725
Prince Aleksandr Menshikov January 1725 – 8 September 1727
Jan Sapieha 1727 – 1728
Khristofor Minikh January 1728 – 1734 War Governor
Nikolai Golovin 1742
Peter Lacy 1743
Vasily Repnin 1744
Stepan Ignatiev 1744
Boris Yusupov 1749
Prince Mikhail Golitsin 1752 – 1754
Peter August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck 1762
Ivan Neplyuyev 1762 – 1764
Ivan Glebov 1767
Prince Aleksander Golitsin October 1769 – 8 October 1783
Jacob Bruce 1784 – 6 October 1791
Aleksander Romanov 6 October 1791 – 1797 War Governor
Nikolai Arkharov 6 October 1791 – November 1796, until 15 June 1797 acting General Governor
Fyodor Buksgevden June 1797 – August 1798
Pyotr von der Pahlen 8 August 1798 – 30 June 1801, until 25 August 1800 acting, from 24 March 1801 War Governor
Mikhail Kutuzov 30 July 1801 – 9 September 1802 War Governor
Mikhail Kamenskiy 27 August 1802 – 16 November 1802 War Governor
Pyotr Tolstoy 28 November 1802 – 25 January 1803 War Governor
Andrey Budberg 25 January 1803 – 17 February 1803 War Governor
Pyotr Tolstoy 28 November 1802 – 10 September 1805 War Governor
Nikolai Svechin 1803 – 1806
Sergey Vyazmitinov 10 September 1805 – 12 January 1808 War Governor
Prince Dmitry Lobanov-Rostovskiy 12 January 1808 – 2 February 1809
Alexander Balashov 14 February 1809 – 9 April 1810
Sergey Vyazmitinov 10 November 1816 – 31 August 1818 War General Governor
Mikhail Miloradovich 31 August 1818 – 15 December 1825 War General Governor
Pavel Golenishchev-Kutuzov 27 December 1825 – 19 February 1830 War General Governor
Pyotr Essen 17 February 1830 – 14 February 1842 War General Governor
Aleksander Kavelin 14 February 1842 – 19 April 1846 War General Governor
Matvey Khrapovitskiy 7 April 1846 – 31 March 1847 War General Governor
Dmitry Shulgin 3 May 1847 – 1 January 1855 War General Governor
Aleksander Stroganov 1854 War Governor
Pavel Ignatiev 28 December 1854 – 16 November 1861 War General Governor
Aleksandr Suvorov-Rymnikskiy 16 November 1861 – 16 May 1866 War General Governor
Iosif Gurko April 1879 – February 1880
General Grösser February 1880 - 12 January 1905
Dmitry Trepov 12 January 1905 – 14 April 1905 acting General Governor
Fyodor Apraksin 1712 – 1723
Vasily Saltykov 21 January 1734 – October 1740
Prince Yakov Shakhovskoy October 1740 – November 1740
Prince Vasily Nesvitsky 23 July 1761 – 17 April 1764
Stepan Ushakov 21 April 1764 – 21 April 1773
Stepan Perfiliev 22 September 1773 – 10 September 1774
Karl Ungern-Sternverg 12 September 1774 – 25 July 1779
Dmitry Volkov 4 August 1779 – 1780
Ustin Potapov 4 August 1780 – 1 January 1784
Pyotr Tarbeev 1 April 1784 – 18 March 1785
Pyotr Konovnitsin 18 March 1785 – 2 September 1793
Nikita Ryleev 2 September 1793 – 9 June 1797
Ivan Alekseev 9 June 1797 – 28 August 1797
Ivan Grevens 28 August 1797 – 21 December 1798
Dmitry Glinka 22 December 1798 – 2 March 1800
Prokopy Mishchersky 7 March 1800 – 1 June 1800
Nikolay Khotyaintsev 1 June 1800 – 5 June 1801
Pyotr Pankratiev 5 June 1801 – 19 July 1802
Sergey Kushnikov 19 July 1802 – 28 October 1804
Pyotr Paseviev 28 October 1804 – 31 January 1808
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin 31 January 1808 – 14 July 1816
Semyon Shcherbinin 15 August 1816 – 23 November 1826
Aleksandr Bezobrazov 25 November 1826 – 27 January 1829
Ivan Khrapovitskiy 27 January 1829 – 11 December 1835
Mikhail Zhemchuzhnikov 11 December 1835 – 30 December 1840
Vasily Sheremetev 10 January 1841 – 28 June 1843
Nikolay Zhukovskiy 10 August 1843 – 8 April 1851
Pyotr Donaurov 8 April 1851 – 7 April 1855
Nikolai Smirnov 7 April 1855 – 1 January 1861
Aleksandr Bobrinsky 12 January 1861 – 13 March 1864
Vladimir Skaryatin 20 March 1864 – 1 January 1865
Lev Perovskiy 1 January 1865 – 22 July 1866, until 22 July 1865 acting
Nikolay Levashov 22 July 1866 – 8 May 1871
Iosif Lutkovskiy 9 May 1871 – 2 September 1880, until 30 March 1873 acting
Fyodor Trepov 1873 - 1878
Sergey Tol 2 September 1880 – May 1903
Aleksandr Zinoviev 6 March 1903 – January 1911
Aleksandr Adlerberg 9 January 1911 – 18 August 1914
Served as chair of the Assembly of Nobility
Alexander Kurakin 1780 – 1783
Adam Olsufiev 1783 – 1784
Andrey Shuvalov 1784 – 1785
Aleksander Naryshkin 1788 – 1790
Aleksander Stroganov 1790 – 1798
Mikhail Rumyantsev 1798 – 1801
Pyotr Razumovsky 1801 – 1805
Aleksander Stroganov 1805 – 1811
Aleksey Zherebtsov 1811 – 1814
Ilya Bezborodko 1814 – 1815
Aleksey Zherebtsov 1815 – 1818
Arkadiy Nelidov 1826 – 1830
Dmitriy Durnovo 1830 – 1833
Prince Vasiliy Dolgorukov 1833 – 1839
Prince Golitsin 24 February 1839 – 1842
Mikhail Potyomkin 21 March 1842 – 24 March 1854
Pyotr Shuvalov 24 March 1854 – 29 March 1863
Grigoriy Shcherbatov 29 March 1863 – 8 March 1866
Vladimir Orlov-Davydov 8 March 1866 – 21 March 1869
Aleksandr Bobrinskiy 21 March 1869 – 18 April 1872
Andrey Shuvalov 18 April 1872 – 14 April 1876
Aleksey Bobrinskiy 14 April 1876 – 27 January 1890
Aleksandr Mordvinov 27 January 1890 – 1891
Aleksandr Trubnikov 1891 – 1 February 1893
Aleksey Bobrinskiy 1 February 1893 – 8 February 1897
Aleksandr Zinoviev 8 February 1897 – February 1904
Vasiliy Gudovich 15 February 1904 – March 1909
Ivan Saltykov 8 March 1909 – 1915