Lithuania Governorate

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

The Lithuania Governorate (1796–1801) was a short-lived governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. 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. After her death just a year later her son Paul I of Russia became the emperor of Russia. He reversed or modified many of his mother's policies and decisions, including administrative divisions. On December 12, 1796, the two governorates were merged into one, and called the Lithuania Governorate, with its capital in Vilnius. In 1801 Paul I was assassinated and the Lithuania Governorate was divided into the Lithuania-Vilna Governorate and the Lithuania-Grodno Governorate by his successor, Alexander I of Russia.

References

(Lithuanian) Kulakauskas, Antanas (2002). "Administracinės reformos". Gimtoji istorija. Nuo 7 iki 12 klasės. Vilnius: Elektroninės leidybos namai. ISBN 9986-9216-9-4. Retrieved 2007-08-04.

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Governorates	Azov¹ Altai² Arkhangelsk Archangelgorod* Astrakhan Baku Belgorod Bessarabia Bratslav Byelorussia Caucasus Chernigov Black Sea Derbent Grodno Georgia-Imeretia Georgia Elisabethpol Erivan Finland Iziaslav Ingermanland Irkutsk Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kolyvan Kostroma Kursk Kutaisi Lithuania Little Russia Minsk Mogilev Moscow Nikolayev Nizhny Novgorod Novhorod-Siverskyi Novgorod Novorossiysk Olonets Orenburg Oryol Penza Perm Petrograd² Podolia Polotsk* Poltava Pskov Ryazan Samara Saint Petersburg Saratov Shemakha Siberia Simbirsk Slobodsko-Ukrainian Slonim Smolensk Stavropol Taurida Tambov Tver Tiflis Tobolsk Tomsk Tula Ufa Vilna Vitebsk Vladimir Voznesensk Vologda Volhynian Voronezh Vyatka Vyborg Yaroslavl Yekaterinoslav Yeniseysk

Oblasts	Amur Armenian Batumi Belostok Bessarabia Don Voisko Dagestan Zabaikalskaya Imeretia Caucasus Kamchatka Kars Caspian Kwantung Kuban Orenburg Kirgiz Omsk Primorskaya Sakhalin Taurida Tarnopolsky Terek Turgay Ural Yakut

Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai	Aqmola Siberia Kirgiz Semipalatinsk Oblast

Oblasts of Turkestan Krai	Transcaspian Samarkand Semirechye Oblast Syr-Darya Oblast Turkestan Fergana

Governorates of Finland	Åbo och Björneborg Vasa (Nikolaistad) Viborg Kuopio Nyland (Helsinki) St. Michel Tavastehus Uleåborg

Governorates of Poland	Augustów Warsaw Kalisz Kielce Kraków Łomża Lublin Masovia Piotrków Płock Podlasie Radom Sandomierz Siedlce Suwałki

Ostsee Governorates³	Courland Livonia Reval Riga Estonia

Governorates of Galicia	Lvov Przemyśl Tarnopol Chernovtsy

Special Districts	Black Sea Okrug Sukhumi Okrug Zakatali Okrug Zeravshan Okrug

Dependent state formations	Bukeyev Horde Emirate of Bukhara Kokand Khanate Russian America Uriankhayskiy Krai Khanate of Khiva

¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914. ² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914. ³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.

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