RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT GENERAL OF WILNA, GRODNO AND KOVNO
1871 - 1915
The name Severozapadnyi Kraj (North West Territory) was used since 1863 to
design those territories which had been annexed to Russia after the third
division of Poland in 1795.
The region was divided into three Russian governments - Wilna, Grodno (both
established in 1802) and Kovno (established in 1843) - which were regrouped,
since their establishment, into one chief administration, styled Government
General of Wilna, Grodno and Kovno since 1864.
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CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Governors General of Wilna, Grodno and Kovno
Knjaz = Prince
1868 - 1874 Aleksandr L'vovovich Potapov 1818 - 1886
1874 - 1880 Pėtr Pavlovich Al'bedinskij 1826 - 1883
1880 - 1884 Eduard (Ivanovich), Graf Totleben 1818 - 1884
Acting Governor General
1882 - 1884 Aleksandr Pavlovich Nikitin 1824 - 1891
1884 - 1893 Ivan Semenovich Kakhanov 1825 - 1909
1893 - 1897 Pėtr Vasil'evich Orzhevskij 1839 - 1897
1897 - 1901 Vitalij Nikolaevich Trockij 1835 -
1901 - 1902 none
1902 - 1904 Knjaz Pėtr Dmitrievich Svjatopolk-Minskij 1857 - 1914
1904 - 1905 Aleksandr Alekseevich Freese 1840 -
1905 - 1909 Konstantin Faddeevich Krshivickij
(Krzywicki) 1840 - 1910
1909 - 1912 none
In 1912 the Government General was abolished and the three governments became
directly dependent of the Russian ministry of Home Affairs.
In 1915 they were conquered by the Germans, becoming subject to the OberOst.
Three years later, after the German defeat, they were divided between Belarus
(Grodno) and Lithuania (Kovno/Kaunas and Wilna/Vilnius).
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