Territorial Growth
The First partition of Poland (1772) awarded only some parts of the Belarusian lands, northern part of the Polotsk Voivodeship, entire Mstsislaw Voivodeship and Vitebsk Voivodeship, and south eastern part of the Minsk Voivodeship, which became parts of Pskov and Mogilev guberniyas (governorates).
In 1776 Polotsk Governorate was created after separating from the original Russian lands of Pskov Governorate.
The second partition (1793) added more (the remaining part of Minsk Voivodeship, Bracław Voivodeship and Vilnius Voivodeship and Brest Litovsk Voivodeship). After the third pertition virtually all Belarusian lands occurred within the Russian Empire, and the Belarusian guberniyas eventually constituted part of the Northwestern Krai.
Read more about this topic: Belarusian History In The Russian Empire
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