Administrations of volosts reported to the Board of Sarapul Zemstvo. In the Imperial Russia there was an institution of zemstvo or local council. It praised the peasant commune and the zemstvo. Similar resolutions and appeals from other city dumas and zemstvo councils followed. He also presided over St. Petersburg Zemstvo assemblies. Many Kadet party members were veterans of the zemstvo, local councils. In 1909 he was reelected chairman of Sudzhensky Uyezd Zemstvo Board. The latter helped his younger brother to find a job in the local zemstvo administration. In 1904 Yesenin joined the Konstantinovo zemstvo school. He had proposed spreading the system of zemstvo to the southwestern provinces of Russia. Well-known zemstvo man and for many years chairman of Sudzha Zemstvo Board. On , Nicholas II had received a Zemstvo deputation. This new form of local government involved in each area an assembly called a "zemstvo". In 1890, he became head of the zemstvo for Chernsky District, near the family estate. Initially, he only completed a two-year course of a zemstvo primary school in 1913.