Governorate of Estonia
After the February Revolution in 1917 the Provisional government of Russia carried out an administrative reform that created the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia where the former Governorate of Estonia and the Estonian-speaking areas of the Governorate of Livonia were merged. On February 24, 1918 its National Council, the "Maapäev," declared the independence of Estonia. It listed the Estonian regions to form the Republic and mentioned that “"Final determination of the boundaries of the Republic in the areas bordering on Latvia and Russia will be carried out by plebiscite after the conclusion of the present World War”""." Such plebiscite was carried out only in Narva township on 10 December 1917, where the majority voted for Estonian administration. Russian Bolshevik government accepted its results and by decree of 21 December town of Narva was transferred from Russian Republic to the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia.