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The Zemskii Sobor was convened in 1550. The deputies reviewed with the tsar the outlines of new administration and judicial systems, and they set in motion the drafting of a new legal code. New governmental departments (prikazy) for finance, war and foreign affairs were established.
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Paxton, J. (2001). Political and Administrative Changes in Imperial Russia. In: Imperial Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598720_6
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