1863-1864 Uprising in Belarus

Suppression of the uprising

Order by the governor-general of Vilna province V.I. Nazimov to the military district chiefs, military governors and army commanders on the matters concerning the uprising, transportation of the arrested insurgents, and assignment of prosecutors to court martials. 6 February 1863. Copy. Manuscript. (NIAB, f. 295, op. 1, d. 1517a, l. 23-26)
Letter from V.I. Nazimov to the police chief V.A. Dolgoruky on the measures to carry out the peasant reform in Lithuania and Belarus. 18 February 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 5-8. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Proposals by G.A. Nazimov with the comments by the Minister of Internal Affairs Valuev for the measures against the uprising. 23 February 1863. Photocopy. Print. Dakumenty i materyialy pa gistoryi Belarusi. T. II. Minsk, 1940. P. 500-502. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus)
Letter from the governor-general of Vilna province V.I. Nazimov to the Minister of Internal Affairs on the necessity of establishing the military-civil administration in the general-governorate to reinforce the countermeasures against the insurgents. 7 March 1863. Copy. Manuscript. (NIAB, f. 1430, op. 1, d. 31299, l. 3-6 ob.)
Manifesto by Alexander II on forgiving the rebels who laid down the arms and pleaded guilty. 31 March 1863. Photocopy. Print. Povstancheskoe dvizhenie v Grodnenskoi gubernii 1863-1864 gg. Brest, 2006. P. 313-315. (NIAB in Grodno, library, № 8523)
Report from A.M. Losev to V.A. Dolgoruky on the ineffectiveness of the amnesty manifesto. 7 April 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 120-121. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Information in the journal of the Western Committee on measures taken by the commander of the Vilna Military District to suppress the disturbances in the district. 22 April 1863. Photocopy. Print. Dakumenty i materyialy pa gistoryi Belarusi. T. II. Minsk, 1940. P. 512-513. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus)
Regulations approved by the Tsar on the organisation of village guards against the insurgents. 24 April 1863. Photocopy. Print. Dakumenty i materyialy pa gistoryi Belarusi. T. II. Minsk, 1940. P. 513-514. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus)
Letter from the Minister of Public Education to the Western Committee on the dismissal of students from universitites and the ban preventing them to go on holiday to Belarus and Lithuania. 26 April 1863. Photocopy. Print. Dakumenty i materyialy pa gistoryi Belarusi. T. II. Minsk, 1940. P. 514-515. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus)
Letter from V.I. Nazimov to V.A. Dolgoruky on the readiness of the major proprietors in Lithuania and Belarus to assist the government in suppressing the uprising. Late April 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 17-18. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Edict by the Senate to the Vitebsk Province Administration on appointing the member of the State Council, General of Infantry M.N. Muravyov as the military governor of Vilna, governor-general of Grodno, Kovno and Minsk, the commander of the Vilna Military District with the subordination of Vitebsk and Mogilev provinces. 1 May 1863. Handwritten on letterhead. (NIAB, f. 1416, op. 2, d. 12672, l. 1-1 ob.)
Mikhail Muravyov (1796-1866) – count, governor-general of Vilna province, from May 1863 led the suppression of the uprising in Lithuania and Belarus. Vilna. The 1860s. Photo from P. Shamshur’s collection. (BGAKFFD, 0-100125)
Alexander Losev (1819-1885) – colonel (later general), before the uprising the police staff officer in Vitebsk and Vilna, chairman of the Vitebsk Special Investigation Commission for the 1863-1864 Uprising in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Vilna. The 1860s. Photo from P. Shamshur’s collection. (BGAKFFD, 0-100124)
Report from Lieutenant Colonel I.N. Skvortsov to the Third Department on the measures taken against the uprising in January – April 1863 in the Vilna Military District. 4 May 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 22-24. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Report from the chief of the police corps 4th district to Prince Dolgoruky on the new measures of the tsarist authorities against the uprising in Belarus. 8 May 1863. Photocopy. Print. Dakumenty i materyialy pa gistoryi Belarusi. T. II. Minsk, 1940. P. 518-519. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus)
Order for the troops of the Vilna Military District declaring a state of martial law in the province of Mogilev and the districts of Nevel, Velizh, Gorodok and Surazh in the province of Vitebsk. 12 May 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 476. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Report from Colonel Losev to Prince Dolgoruky on the execution of the Catholic priest Zematsky and a landlord’s son A. Lyaskovich for reading the insurrection manifesto to peasants. 14 May 1863. Photocopy. Print. Dakumenty i materyialy pa gistoryi Belarusi. T. II. Minsk, 1940. P. 524. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus)
Instruction by the governor-general of Vilna province M.N. Muravyov on the arrangement of the military-civil administration in the provinces of Vilna, Kovno, Grodno, Minsk, Vitebsk and Mogilev. 24 May 1863. Copy. Print. Russian and Polish. (NIAB, f. 1430, op. 1, d. 31299, l. 43-46)
Report by V. L. Kulin on the arrival of Muravyov in Vilna and the first executions of the insurgents. May 1863. Photocopy. Print. Dakumenty i materyialy pa gistoryi Belarusi. T. II. Minsk, 1940. P. 522-523. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the uprising of 1863-1864 in Belarus)
Instruction by the War Minister, Adjutant General D.A. Milyutin to the officers assigned as military chiefs about the procedure of performing the administrative duties. May 1863. Copy. Manuscript. (NIAB, f. 1430, op. 1, d. 31299, l. 7-8 ob.)
Address by the nobles of Vilna Province to Alexander II with the condemnation of the insurrection. 27 July 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 43. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Letter from M. Oskerko to an unknown person about the condition of the insurgents and the measures taken by the authorities against the revolutionary moods among the students. 9 September 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 436-438. Polish with the translation into Russian. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Address by the Catholic consistory of Vilna calling upon the clergy and the believers to obey the tsarist authorities. 17 September 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 151-153. Polish with the translation into Russian. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Report from the military chief of Belsk, I.E. Boreisha to I.N. Skvortsov about the arrangement of village guards, population census and other measures against the insurgents in the district. 3 October 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 386-387. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Circular by the Minister of Interior P.A. Valuev to the governors concerning the transmission of money to the persons exiled to Siberia. 4 October 1863. Printed on letterhead. (NIAB, f. 299, op. 2 , d. 6005, l. 1)
Report by the Mogilev Investigation Commission to A.P. Beklemishev on the social structure of the participants in the uprising. 7 October 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 485. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Instructions of I.P. Skvortsov to the district military chiefs for imposing penalties on the artisans who supplied the insurgents with the clothes. 19 October 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 388-389. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Report from the Investigation Commission for the Search of Grodno Offices Case to I.N. Skvortsov on the discovery of “Peasant’s Truth” at the State Property Chamber and the note about its distribution among the peasants. 17 November 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 389-390 (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Circular instructions of M.N. Muravyov on measures against the remains of the insurgent bands under the threat of the insurrection outbreak in the spring of 1864. 3 December 1863. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 245 (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)
Register on the number of troops engaged in the suppression of the uprising in 1863-1864 in Lithuania and Belarus compiled at the headquarters of the Vilna Military District. 1868. Photocopy. Print. Vosstanie v Litve i Belorussii 1863-1864 gg. Moscow, 1965. P. 101-103. (BGAMLI, library, № 1506)