Moscow Governorate
Moscow Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on , 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict. As with the rest of the governorates, initially, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Moscow Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities. Later, Moscow Governorate was subdivided into 13 uyezds.