satraps-in-chief

Updated: August 16, 2026

While the gubernatorial commissions gubernatorial in the literal sense of the word, because entirely dominated by the governors were holding their sessions, the satraps-in-chief of the Pale of Settlement, the governors-general, were busy sending their expressions of opinion to St. Petersburg.

Simon Dubnow - History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II: From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander: III. (1825-1894)