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

History

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

• 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

• Southwestern Krai
• Western Krai

References

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