List of Governors
Between 1800 and 1876 overall authority in Courland was handed to the governor-general of the Baltic Provinces (German: Generalgouverneur der Ostseeprovinzen).
- 1795 - 1796 Peter Ludwig Freiherr von der Pahlen (temporary governor-general of Courland and Pilten)
- 1796 - 1798 Gustav Matthias Jakob von der Wenge
- 1798 - 1800 Carl Wilhelm Heinrich von der Osten
- 1800 - 1808 Nikolay Ivanovich Arsenyev
- 1808 Jakob Maximilian von Brieskorn (acting governor on 18–21 May 1812)
- 1808 - 1811 Johann Wilhelm Baron von Hogguer
- 1811 Jakob Maximilian von Brieskorn (acting governor in August–September 1812)
- 1811 - 1816 Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Sievers (in exile in Riga during Napoleonic invasion of Courland in July–December 1812)
- 1812 Jules de Chambaudoin and Charles de Montigny (French intendants of Courland, Semigallia and Pilten on 1 August-8 October 1812)
- 1812 Jacques David Martin (French governor-general of Courland on 8 October-20 December 1812)
- 1816 - 1824 Emannuel von Stanecke
- 1824 - 1827 Paul Baron von Hahn
- 1827 - 1853 Christoph Engelbrecht von Brevern
- 1853 Aleksandr Petrovich Beklemishev (acting governor on 10 May–14 June 1853)
- 1853 - 1858 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuyev
- 1858 Julius Gustav von Cube (acting governor on 10–21 May 1858)
- 1858 - 1868 Johann von Brevern
- 1868 - 1885 Paul Fromhold Freiherr von Lilienfeld
- 1885 Aleksandr Alekseyevich Manyos
- 1885 - 1888 Konstantin Ivanovich Pashchenko
- 1888 - 1891 Dimitriy Sergeyevich Sipyagin
- 1891 - 1905 Dimitriy Dimitriyevich Sverbeyev
- 1905 - 1906 Woldemar von Böckmann
- 1906 - 1910 Leonid Mikhailovich Knyazev
- 1910 Nikolay Dmitriyevich Kropotkin
- 1910 - 1915 Sergey Dimitriyevich Nabokov
- 1915-1917 Tatishchev, Pyotr Vasilyevich Gendrikov, Strakhov (in exile in Tartu after German invasion of Courland in July 1915).
In March 1918 the Baltic provinces were transferred to German authority following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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