Northwestern Krai
Northwestern Krai of the Russian empire
Northwestern Krai (Russian: Северо-Западный край) was a subdivision (krai) of Russian empire in the territories of the present day Belarus and Lithuania. The center was in Vilna city.
It included six guberniyas:
- Vilna Governorate
- Kovno Governorate
- Grodno Governorate
- Minsk Governorate
- Mogilev Governorate
- Vitebsk Governorate
From 1870 to 1912, Grodno, Vilna, and Kovno Governorates were constituted as the Governor-General of Lithuania.
Northwestern Krai together with the Southwestern Krai formed the Western Krai.
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
References
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