Lithuania Governorate

Lithuania Governorate was made of both Vilna Governorate and Slonim Governorate (light green and pink)

Lithuania Governorate was a short-lived governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. After the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, former territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were divided between Vilna Governorate and Slonim Governorate by Catherine II of Russia. After her death just a year later her son Paul I of Russia became the emperor of Russia. He reversed or modified many his mother's policies and decisions, including the administrative divisions. On December 12, 1796, the two governorates were merged into one governorate, called Lithuania Governorate, with capital in Vilnius. In 1801 Paul I was assassinated and Lithuania Governorate was split into Lithuania-Vilna Governorate and Lithuania-Grodno Governorate by his successor Alexander I of Russia.