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Map of Vilna and Slonim Governorates in 1795 Map of Lithuania in the Russian Empire (1867–1914) Under the Russian Empire, the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania was divided into governorates (Russian: guberniya, Lithuanian: gubernija) and districts (Russian: uyezd, Lithuanian: apskritis). Such system was introducing in Russia ...
Following the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, most of the lands of the former Grand Duchy were directly annexed by the Russian Empire, the rest by Prussia. In 1812, just prior to the French invasion of Russia, the former Grand Duchy revolted against the Russians.
The Statutes of Lithuania were annulled by the Russian Empire only in 1840, and serfdom was abolished as part of the general Emancipation reform of 1861 that applied to the entire Russian Empire. [123] The Uniate Church, important in the Belarusian part of the former Grand Duchy, was incorporated into the Orthodox Church in 1839. [124]
The dramatic westward expansion of the Russian Empire through the annexation of Polish–Lithuanian territory substantially increased the Jewish population. [8] At its height, the Pale had a Jewish population of over five million, and represented the largest component (40 percent) of the world's Jewish population at that time. [ 9 ]
Map of the six governorates of the Northwestern Krai – three western governorates constituted Vilna Governorate-General. Vilna Governorate-General (Russian: Литовское генерал-губернаторство, Lithuanian: Vilniaus generalgubernatorija), known as Lithuania Governorate-General before 1830, was a Governorate-General of the Russian Empire from 1794 to 1912.
Map of governorates of the Russian Republic (Western part), 1917. This is a list of governorates of the Russian Empire (Russian: губерния, pre-1918: губернія, romanized: guberniya) established between the administrative reform of 1708 and the establishment of the Kholm Governorate in 1912 (inclusive).
Vilna Governorate (light green), 1843–1915, with modern Lithuania outlined Vilna Governorate (light green), 1795–97, again with modern Lithuania outlined Vilna Governorate in 1897 Coat of arms of Vilna Governorate used since 1845. The Vilna Governorate [a] was a province of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. In 1897, the ...
Lithuania Governorate [a] was an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire in 1796–1801. [1] [2] After the third partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, the former territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were divided between the Vilna Governorate and the Slonim Governorate by Catherine II of Russia. [3]