Abstract
The activity of Estonian political elites increased after the Provisional Government came to power in 1917. In the spring of 1917, social and political figures of the Governorate of Estonia began to actively demand alterations of the boundaries of the province. They sought to consolidate the Estonian population within the borders of a single province. The Provisional Government adopted the Regulation "On the temporary structure of administration and local self-government of the Governorate of Estonia", which changed not only the borders of the province, but the system of local government. Soviet historians assessed the actions of the Provisional Government as forced ones. After the collapse of the USSR, Estonian historians also shared this position. The key event that forced the Provisional Government to support the Estonian demands was what the majority of Estonian historians call the demonstration of Estonians in Petrograd on March 26, 1917.
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