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Government Reform Of Alexander IThe early Russian system of government instated by Peter the Great, which consisted of various state committees, each named College with subordinate departments named Prikaz, was largely outdateby by 1800s. The responsibilites of the Colleges were chosen very randomly and often overlapped. Soon after Alexander I inherited the throne, he formed a Privy Committee (Негласный комитет) which consisted of Viktor Kochubey, Nikolay Novosiltsev, Pavel Stroganov and Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. Mikhail Speransky took an active part in the Committee, although he wasn't a formal member. The proposed reforms were to introduce a parliament and a State Council as legislative and executive bodies of the Tsar and to relieve the Governing Senate of these functions, transforming it to a kind if Supreme Court. Speransky even prepared the Constitution project. The reform was stopped by 1810 in spite of Napoleonic wars and growing resistance from conservative nobility.
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