The twelve-year-old Peter II of Russia now falls into the hands of the equally unscrupulous Prince Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov, who carries him away from Petersburg to Moscow, where Peter's coronation is celebrated on February 25, 1728.

As the conservative influences prevail among its members, the Council—although nominally a consultative body—monopolizes supreme power and has the imperial capital moved back to Moscow.

The collegiums (i.e., ministries) and the Senate, instituted by Peter I as supreme governing bodies, are no longer called "governing" and are held accountable before the Council rather than the Emperor.