Legal foundations of administration in Belarusian lands in the 14th-18th centuries

Legal documents in Belarusian lands when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus and Samogitia became part of the Russian Empire


Map of Belarus Annexation to the Russian Empire.
Photocopy. Printed. Belarusian. Atlas gistoryi Belarusi ad starazhytnastsi da nashykh dzen. Minsk, 2006. P. 59.
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First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

From the Convention between Austria and Russia on the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
25 July 1772.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 29-30.
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Edict of Catherine II to the Governor-General of Belarusian Provinces on organization of governance in the annexed lands.
16 August 1772.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 30-31.
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Appeal of the Belarusian Governor-General to the residents of Belarusian provinces to take an oath.
16 August 1772.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. C. 31-32.
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Report of the Belarusian Governor-General to Catherine II on the procedure and amount of taxation in Belarusian provinces.
13 September 1772.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 32-35.
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Edict of Catherine II to the Belarusian Governor-General to exempt the residents of Belarusian provinces from paying taxes for half a year.
13 December 1772.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 35-36.
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Report of the Belarusian Governor-General to Catherine II on the permission to elect deputies for drafting a new Code of Law (Ulozhenie) for the residents of Belarusian provinces.
16 January 1773.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 36.
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Edict of Catherine II to the Senate on the decrease of taxes in Belarusian provinces in 1773.
17 April 1773.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 36-37.
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Edict of the Senate on the establishment of land courts in Belarusian provinces and the procedure of their election.
8 May 1773.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 37-40.
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Report of the Belarusian Governor-General on the landowners’ estates in Mogilev and Pskov provinces assigned to the state administration.
1 June 1773.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 41-43.
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Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Manifesto of General-in-Chief Krechetnikov on the annexation of lands to Russia according to the Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (excerpt).
Chief’s camp at Polonne, 27 March 1793.
Photocopy. Printed. Istoriya Belarusi v dokumentakh i materialakh. Minsk, 2000. P. 111-114.
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From the letter of the Lithuanian Governor-General to Count Razumovsky concerning the suppression of the Polish uprising led by T. Kostyushko.
October 1794.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 72.
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Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
From the Declaration of the governments of Russia and Austria on the preparation of the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
23 December 1794.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 72-74.
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Edict of Catherine II to the Governor-General of Minsk, Izyaslavl and Bratslav on taking the oath by the residents of provinces annexed to Russia after the Third Partition of Poland and on the establishment of the customs.
1 May 1795.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 74-75.
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From the inventory of the Procurator General Chancellery about peasants in Minsk province granted in 1793-1795 to various persons for eternal and hereditary ownership.
18 August 1795.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 75, 77-78.
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Convention between Russia, Prussia and Austria on the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (excerpt).
Saint-Petersburg, 24 October 1795.
Photocopy. Printed. Istoriya Belarusi v dokumentakh i materialakh. Minsk, 2000. P. 115-116.
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Rescript of Catherine II to the Lithuanian Governor-General on returning estates in Belarus to Polish landowners.
3 December 1795.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 79.
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From the Manifesto of the Lithuanian Governor-General on the administration and courts in the areas of Belarus and Lithuania annexed to Russia by the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
17 December 1795.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 79-82.
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Record of the secretary of the Slonim district distribution commission concerning the election of Voyt (Prefect) in Devyatkovichi volost.
1 January 1796.
Manuscript. Polish.
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Announcement by the Lithuanian Governor-General on the procedure of tax collection in Vilna and Slonim provinces.
10 November 1796.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 82-83.
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From the Edict of the Senate on changes in the administrative and territorial division of Russia.
12 December 1796.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 83-84.
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Edict of Paul I addressed to N. V. Repnin on granting estates in Belarus to Russian and Polish landowners.
19 December 1796.
Photocopy. Printed. Istoriya Belarusi v dokumentakh i materialakh. Minsk, 2000. P. 116
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Edict of Paul I to Privy Councilor Sivers on joining the rivers Dnieper and Dvina.
23 February 1797.
Photocopy. Printed. Belorussia v epokhu feodalizma. T. III. Minsk, 1961. P. 84.
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Alexander Sapieha, Voivode of Polotsk, grants liberties to the Jews in the town of Druya.
14 September 1797.
Early 19th-century copy. Manuscript. Polish.
(BGAMLI, f. 6, op. 1, d. 25, l. 24-25)
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Instruction for a prayer for the peace of Russian patriarchs, tsars, metropolitans and bishops (18th-century).
Early 19th-century copy. Manuscript.
(BGAMLI, f. 6, op. 1, d. 25, l. 34)
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Jozef A. Grzymultowski certifies that his nephews Antony and Vavrinec belong to the Grzymultowski family confirmed as nobles by the Confirmation Deputation of Vilna on 11 February 1804.
25 September 1812.
Early 19th-century copy. Manuscript. Polish.
(BGAMLI, f. 6, op. 1, d. 3, l. 45-45 ob.)
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Extract from the Books of the Nobility of Lithuania-Vilna Province acknowledging the status of nobility for Princes Pawsza and Counts Paalks, the arms Leliwa.
Vilna, 22 June 1817.
Early 19th-century copy. Manuscript. Polish.
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List of privileges and charters granted by Polish kings to the town of Slonim in 1532, 1558, 1579, 1591, 1641, 1669, 1792, with an assessment of the administrative bodies in the Russian Empire.
30 September 1832.
Copy. Manuscript.
(NIAB in Grodno, f. 1, op. 4, d. 11, l. 7-8 ob.)
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