Supreme Privy Council

The Supreme Privy Council (Russian: Верховный тайный совет, romanized: Verkhovnyy taynyy sovet) of Imperial Russia, founded on 19 February 1726 and operative until 1730, originated as a body of advisors to Empress Catherine I.

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