Government Reform Of Alexander I

The early Russian system of government instated by Peter The Great , which consisted of various state committees, each named '' Collegium '' with subordinate departments named '' Prikaz '', was largely outdate by 1800s . The responsibilites of the Collegiums were chosen very randomly and often overlapped.

Soon after Alexander I inherited the throne, he formed a Privy Committee (Негласный комитет) which consisted of Viktor Kochubey , Nikolay Novosiltsev , Pavel Stroganov and Adam Jerzy Czartoryski . Mikhail Speransky took an active part in the Committee, although he wasn't a formal member.

The reforms proposed by Speransky were to introduce a parliament and a State Council as legislative and executive bodies of the Tsar and to relieve the Governing Senate of these functions, transforming it to a kind of Supreme Court . Speransky even prepared the Constitution project.

The reform was stopped by 1810 in spite of Napoleonic Wars and growing resistance from conservative nobility, as voiced by Nikolai Karamzin .

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