After the Austro-Italian war of that year, the takeover of the Italian territories by Czech Marshal Joseph Radetzky, who commanded the Austrian army in Lombardy and Veneto, led to somewhat a decentralization of the "Austrian Correspondence", with the staff adding officials in each region of the empire. After the death of chancellor Felix Schwarzenberg, on April 5, 1852, Von Bach became the most important figure in the state. He resumed censorship and sent his trusted men to rule Hungary, which he divided into five districts, while Transylvania and Croatia were directly ruled from Vienna.