Vilna Governorate (ltu)

Vilna Governorate

Vilna Governorate ranks 3,534th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind El Dorado, Arkansas, British Columbia, and Suva. The most famous people from Vilna Governorate are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Maciej Sulkiewicz, and Francišak Bahuševič. The most famous people who died in Vilna Governorate are Alaiza Pashkevich. Vilna Governorate has been the birth place of many writers, and linguists and the death place of many writers. Vilna Governorate is located in Lithuania.

The Vilna Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire that existed from 1795 to 1918. Established after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, it encompassed territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and was one of the administrative divisions created by the Russian Empire to replace the institutions of the dissolved Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Read more on Wikipedia