Baltic governorates
The Baltic governorates, originally the Ostsee governorates, was a collective name for the administrative units of the Russian Empire set up in the territories of Swedish Estonia, Swedish Livonia (1721) and, afterwards, of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1795).
Baltic governorates
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| Country | Russian Empire |
| Governorate-General | Baltic |
| Great Northern War; Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia | 1710 |
| Established | 1721 |
| Third Partition of Poland; Annexation of Courland and Semigallia | 1795 |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 3 March 1918 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 94,567.57 km2 (36,512.74 sq mi) |
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