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From 1802, the Grodno gubernia comprised 8 districts: Brest, Volkovysk, Grodno, Kobrin, Lida, Novogrudok, Pruzhany and Slonim. In 1843, the gubernia received Bialystok, Belsk and Sokolka districts from the abolished Bialystok Region, while the Novogrudok district was assigned to the Minsk gubernia and the Lida district to the Vilno gubernia.
Feb 4, 2020 · In 1801, Lithuanian Gubernia was divided, Slonim Gubernia reestablished; in 1802 Slonim Gubernia was renamed Grodno Gubernia. In 1807 the separate Bialystok region (uyezds Bialystok, Byelsk, Sokolka) was established; in 1843 Bialystok region was dissolved, Bialystok, Byelsk and Sokolka uyezds annexed into Grodno Gubernia, while the latter ceded Novogrudok Uyezd to Minsk Gubernia, Lida Uyezd to ...
Kovno Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kovno (Kaunas). It was formed on 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Governorate, and the order was carried out on 1 July 1843. It was part of the Vilna Governorate-General and Northwestern Krai.
A December 18, 1842 Royal Edict reorganized the northwestern Russian Empire and created the Kovno Guberniya. That reorganization effected the Vilna and Grodno gubernii. The northern uezds of Vilna Guberniya (Novoaleksandrovsk, Rassein, Telshi, Shavli, Upita, Vilkomir, and part of Kovno) became a new guberniya called Kovno.
This is a list of governorates of the Russian Empire (‹See Tfd› Russian: губерния, pre-1918: губернія, romanized: guberniya) established between the administrative reform of 1708 and the establishment of the Kholm Governorate in 1912 (inclusive). Some of these governorates persisted into the Soviet era (renamed oblasts ...
Vilna Governorate. (1897) The Vilna Governorate[ a ] was a province (guberniya) of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. In 1897, the governorate covered an area of 41,907.9 square kilometres (16,180.7 sq mi) and had a population of 1,591,207 inhabitants. The governorate was defined by the Minsk Governorate to the south, the Grodno ...
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May 30, 2012 · Płońsk district moved from Płock gubernia to Warszawa gubernia. These gubernia borders were stable until the end of the Kindgom of Poland during WWI (1917). It is these ten gubernias that genealogists typically refer to, since this was the period during which the majority of our ancestors emigrated from Poland.
