Kovno Governorate (ltu)

Kovno Governorate

Kovno Governorate ranks 1,700th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Wenzhou, Highland Park, Michigan, and Amadora. Memorable people born in Kovno Governorate include Aleksandras Stulginskis, Maironis, and Steponas Darius. Memorable people who died in Kovno Governorate include Alexei Lvov. Kovno Governorate has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many composers. Kovno Governorate is located in Lithuania.

Kovno Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kovno (Kaunas). It was formed on 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Governorate, and the order was carried out on 1 July 1843. It was part of the Vilna Governorate-General and Northwestern Krai. The governorate included almost the entire Lithuanian region of Samogitia and the northern part of Aukštaitija. Read more on Wikipedia