Northwestern Krai

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Northwestern Krai (Russian: Северозападный край) was a subdivision (krai) of Imperial Russia in the territories of the present day Belarus and Lithuania. Together with the Southwestern Krai it formed the Western Krai. It included the following six guberniyas:

From 1870 to 1912, Grodno, Vilna, and Kovno Governorates were constituted as the Governor-General of Lithuania with its seat in Vilna.

Governors General

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  • Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin (1794 — 1798)
  • Boris Petrovich De Lacy (1798-1799)
  • Ivan Petrovich Gorichev (13/11/1799-19/12/1799)
  • Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1799 — 1801)
  • Levin August, Count von Bennigsen (1801 - 1806)
  • Alexander Michailovič Rimsky-Korsakov (1806 - 1830)
  • Matthew Evgrafovich Khrapovitsky (1830-1831)
  • Nikolai Andreyevich Dolgorukov (1831-1840)
  • Fedor Yakovlevich Mirkovich (1840-1850)
  • Ilya Gavrilovich Bibikov (1850-1855)
  • Vladimir Nzimov (1855-1863)
  • Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky (1863 - 1865)
  • Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1865 — 1866)
  • Eduard Trofimovich Baranov (1866-1868)
  • Aleksandr Potapov (1868-1874)
  • Pyotr Albedinsky (1874-1880)
  • Alexander Nikitin (5/11/1882-14/1/1884, temporarily Governor during illness of Eduard Totleben)
  • Eduard Totleben (1880 — 1884)
  • Ivan Kahanov (1884-1893)
  • Pyort Orzhevsky (1893-1897)
  • Vitaly Trotsky (1897-1901)
  • Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii (1902 — 1904)
  • Alexander Frese (1904-1905)
  • Constantine Fadeyevich Krshivitsky (1905-1909)

In 1912, Northwestern Krai was abolished.

See also

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