Reforms of St. Petersburg Municipal Services Regulatory Bodies in the First Half of XIX Century

Abstract

One can track the changes in state policy on work of the city regulatory bodies in the first half of XIX century in the sphere of provision of urban amenities and construction using the example of St. Petersburg, as the capital was the center of governmental attention in the discussed period. The government had the task “to start off the mechanism” of faultless functioning for the State Duma and the city in general. Analyzing the legislative basis of the time, one can say that the search for the solution lay in the sphere of increasing of real estate property volumes and revenues received from their use.