Mogilev province existed in 1772-1919. The administrative center was the city of Mogilev. The province was created after the 1st partition of the Commonwealth in 1772 from the lands of the former Mstislav, Vitebsk and Minsk Voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, annexed to the Russian Empire. It included Orsha, Mogilev, Mstislav and Rogachev provinces. In 1777 the province was divided into 12 districts: Orsha, Babinovichsky, Belitsky, Klimovichsky, Kopyssky, Mogilevsky, Mstislavsky, Rogachevsky, Senno, Starobykhovsky, Chaussky And Cherikovsky. In 1778 it was renamed Mogilev governorship, which was abolished in 1796, and the counties became part of the Belarusian province with the center in Vitebsk. On old maps of the Mogilev province, divisions into counties are shown in different years 19th century.
Mogilev Governorate was restored in 1802 as part of the former 12 uyezds, divided into 39 camps and 147 volosts. It bordered on the west with Minsk province, in the east - with Smolensk, in the south - with Chernigov, in the north - with Vitebsk province. In 1840, the Babinovichi uyezd was abolished and annexed to the Orsha uyezd; in 1852, the Belitsky uyezd was renamed into Gomel district, Starobykhovskiy in Bykhovsky. In 1861 Kopyssky uyezd was abolished, and its territory was divided between Senno, Orsha and the newly created uyezds. Goretsky, which also included part of the Orsha district. Since September 1917, Mogilev Governorate, as part of the Western Region, was part of the BNR, proclaimed in March 1918, since January 1919 in the BSSR, since February in the RSFSR. On July 11, 1919, the Mogilev province was abolished, 9 of its counties became part of the newly formed Gomel province, the Mstislav county was transferred to the Smolensk province, and the Senno county was transferred to the Vitebsk province.
The population of the Mogilev province
In 1865, the royal decrees of 37.7 thousand small Belarusian gentry of the Mogilev province, the so-called. odnodvortsev were recorded in the peasant class. The former gentry was divided into 2 groups: the eastern, which mainly included the Orthodox gentry (19.5 thousand Orthodox and 6 thousand Catholics who settled above the Sozh), and the western, Catholic (10.5 thousand Catholics and 1.7 thousand Orthodox, who settled on the river Drut).
According to the 1897 census, the population of the Mogilev province was 1,686,700 thousand people. According to the class: nobles - 27.7 thousand, clergy - 6.4 thousand, merchants - 3.5 thousand, philistines - 291.8 thousand, peasants - 1351.5 thousand. According to religion: Orthodox - 1402.2 thousand, Old Believers - 23.3 thousand, Catholics - 50.1 thousand, Protestants - 6.9 thousand, Jews - 203.9 thousand, Muslims - 184 people. The literate population in the Mogilev province was 16.9%, in the cities - 45%. In 1884 - 2 gymnasiums, 2 pro-gymnasiums, agricultural and vocational school in Gorki, railway in Gomel.
The province was part of the Mogilev Orthodox and Mogilev Catholic eparchies. At the end of the 19th century there were 804 Orthodox Church, 6 male and 5 female monasteries, 30 churches, 340 synagogues and Jewish prayer houses, 2 Lutheran churches, 29 Edinoverie churches and Old Believer prayer houses.
On the territory of the Mogilev province at the end of the 19th century passed railways Moscow-Brest, Libavo-Romenskaya, Oryol-Vitebsk, Gomel-Bryansk, distilleries prevailed, the peasants were engaged in handicrafts.
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Old maps of Mogilev province
Mogilev province, one of the six provinces of the North-Western Territory Russian Empire, was formed in 1772 as a result of the 1st partition of the Commonwealth and the inclusion of part of its Belarusian lands into the Russian Empire (the northern part of these lands was included in the Pskov province). Under the conditions of the existence of the institute of provinces, during the first few years, the Mogilev province was divided into 4 provinces - Mogilev, Mstislavl, Orsha and Rogachev. After the abolition of the administrative-territorial division of the provinces of the Russian Empire into provinces (1775), in 1777 the Mogilev province was divided into 12 districts. As a result of the administrative reform of Catherine II in 1778, the Mogilev province was transformed into the governorship of the same name. During the territorial transformations of Paul the First in 1796, the Mogilev governorship was transformed into the Belarusian province of 16 counties.
In the Mogilev province, in whole or in part
there are the following maps and sources:
Topographic map showing longitudes and latitudes on a scale of 1cm = 2000m. This card was broken into pieces (rectangular sheets) and has a prefabricated sheet. Maps in color, very detailed, from the Austro-Hungarian Atlas of 1910. (so all names settlements indicated in Latin).
Mogilev Governorate bordered on the following provinces: Vitebsk province Smolensk province, Chernigov province, as well as Minsk province.
Under Alexander the First, in 1802, the Belarusian province was again renamed Mogilev, and the county "network" of the new province was cut down to the previous 12 counties - Babinovichi (abolished in 1840)
1840 Babinovichi uyezd is abolished. Its territory is part of the Orsha district of the Mogilev province.
Map of the administrative division of the Orsha district of the Mogilev province into volosts, early 20th century
Belitsky (renamed Gomelsky in 1852), Klimovichsky, Kopyssky (renamed Goretsky in 1861), Mogilev, Mstislavsky, Orshansky, Rogachevsky, Sennensky, Starobykhovsky (renamed Bykhovsky in 1852), Chaussky, Cherikovsky. Thus, during the entire subsequent pre-revolutionary period of the existence of the Mogilev province, it consisted of 11 counties, of which the largest was Ragachevsky, and the smallest was Chaussky. The administrative center of the province was the medieval city of Mogilev, the first mention of which in the annals dates back to 1267.
1917 Western Region formed
1918 (October 13). The western region is transformed into the Western Commune.
1918 (December 31). The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in Smolensk. It includes the territories of Minsk, Grodno, Mogilev, Vitebsk and Smolensk provinces.
1919 (May 25). Mogilev province was abolished. Its territory, including the Orsha, Goretsky, Mstislavl and Klimovichi counties bordering on the Smolensk region, was transferred to the newly formed Gomel province.
1919 (June 30). Mikulinskaya, Rudnyanskaya, Lyubavichskaya and Khlystovskaya volosts of the Orsha district, part of the Goretsky district and almost completely the Mstislavl district of the Gomel province were attached to the Smolensk province.
All these redistributions have created an incredible turmoil in the names - it is enough to mention that in full assembly Lenin's writings for 1919 the following name occurs: Rudnya executive committee of the Mikulin volost, Orsha district, Mogilev province»
1924 (March 3). From the Smolensk province to the BSSR, the Goretsky district was transferred completely, Shamovskaya, Staroselskaya, Kazimirov-Slobodskaya, parts of the Bokhotskaya, Oslyanskaya and Soinskaya volosts of the Mstislavl district with the city of Mstislavl. The volosts of the Mstislavl district that remained in the Smolensk region were included in the Smolensk district, and parts of the Oslyanskaya and Soinskaya districts were included in the Roslavl district.
1929 (October 1). The Western region was formed with the center in the city of Smolensk. It included the territories of Smolensk, Bryansk, parts of the Kaluga, Tver and Moscow provinces, the Velikoluzhsky district of the Leningrad region.
The western region is divided into eight districts with 125 districts. The districts are divided into village councils. The old administrative-territorial system: province - county - volost - has ceased to exist since that time.
The Lyubavichy volost, having received the status of a village council, entered the Rudnyansky district, formed on the territory of the former Orsha and Smolensk districts.
1937 (September 27) The Smolensk Region was created on the territory of the Western Region.
The borders of the Rudnyansky district and the Smolensk region in 1957:
The modern configuration of the Rudnyansky district, which divided the Ponizovye with the Demidov district:
The Mogilev province was founded on May 28, 1773 from a part of the Belarusian lands that passed to Russia under the first partition of Poland (P.S.Z. 13.807 and 13.808). On January 10, 1778, it was transformed into a governorship (P.S.Z. 14.691); On June 17 of the same year, offices were opened (P.S.Z. 14.774). On December 12, 1796, the governorship was united with the Polotsk province under the name of the Belorussian province, and Vitebsk was appointed the provincial city (P.S.Z. 17.634). By decree of February 27, 1802, the Byelorussian province was divided into two independent provinces - Mogilev and Belorussian-Vitebsk (P.S.Z. 20.162). In the same year, the provincial government was established. In 1802–1856 as part of the Vitebsk General Government. At the beginning of the 20th century, it consisted of 11 counties and 144 volosts, there were 13 cities and 8392 other settlements in the province.
Governor
Kakhovsky Mikhail Vasilievich, general-m. 1773 - 1778
Viceroy rulers
Kakhovsky Mikhail Vasilievich, general-m. 1778 - 1779
Passek Petr Bogdanovich, Gen.-por. 1779 - 1781
Engelgardt Nikolai Bogdanovich, s.s. (d.s.s.) 1781 - 1790
Vyazmitinov Sergey Kuzmich, general-m. 1791 - 1794
Cheremisinov Gerasim Ivanovich, Doctor of Science 1794 - 1796
Dec. 1796 - Feb. 1802 - as part of the Belarusian province
Governors
Bakunin Mikhail Mikhailovich, t.s. 1802 - 1809
Berg Petr Ivanovich, Ph.D. 1809 - 1811
Tolstoy gr. Dmitry Alexandrovich, Ph.D. 1812 - 1820
Meller-Zakomelsky Fedor Ivanovich, s.s. 1820 - 1822
Velsovsky Ivan Danilovich, s.s. 1822 - 1824
Maksimov Ivan Fedorovich, s.s. 1824 - May 21, 1828
Muravyov Mikhail Nikolaevich, s.s. 15 Sept. 1828 - 24 Aug. 1831
Bazhanov Georgy Ilyich, s.s. (d.s.s.) 24 Aug. 1831 - June 2, 1837
Markov Ivan Vasilyevich, Doctor of Science June 2, 1837 - Jan. 26 1839
Engelgardt Sergey Pavlovich, s.s. Jan 26 1839 - 2 Mar. 1844
Gamaleya Mikhail Mikhailovich, s.s. (d.s.s.) 10 Apr. 1845 - 11 Sept. 1854
Skalon Nikolai Alexandrovich, s.s. (d.s.s.) 11 Sept. 1854 - 2 Nov. 1857
Beklemishev Alexander Petrovich (approved with production. in the d.s.s. December 31, 1856) Nov. 22. 1857 - May 17, 1868
Shelgunov Pavel Nikanorovich, general-m. May 19, 1868 - Oct. 12 1870
Dunin-Barkovsky Vasily Dmitrievich, Doctor of Science Oct 16 1870 - 30 Mar. 1872
Dembovetskoy Alexander Stanislavovich, in the sound. chamberlain, d.s.s. (t.s.) 30 Mar. 1872 - 30 Aug. 1893
Martynov Dmitry Nikolaevich, Doctor of Science Aug 30 1893 - 23 Dec. 1893
Zinoviev Nikolai Alekseevich, t.s. Dec 23 1893 - 8 Feb. 1901
Semakin Mikhail Konstantinovich, general-m. Feb 18 1901 - May 17, 1902
Klingenberg Nikolai Mikhailovich, Doctor of Science July 1, 1902
Counties of the Mogilev province
Mogilev district
Bykhov county
Gomel district
Gorki district
Klimovichi district
Mstislav county
Orsha County
Rogachev county
Senno County
Chausy County
Cherikovsky district
In 1777 Mogilev province was divided into 12 counties. In 1778, the province was renamed the Mogilev governorship, which was abolished in 1796, and the counties became part of the Belarusian province. In 1802, the Mogilev province was restored as part of the former 12 counties.
From September 1917, the province was assigned to the Western Region, in 1918 to the Western Commune, from January 1919 - to the BSSR, and from February - to the RSFSR. On July 11, 1919, the Mogilev province was abolished, 9 of its counties were included in the Gomel province, the Mstislav county was transferred to Smolensk, and the Senno county was transferred to the Vitebsk province.
In 1938, the Mogilev region was formed with the center in Mogilev.
Initially, the Mogilev province included 12 counties: Babinovichsky (be) (abolished in 1840), Belitsky county (renamed Gomelsky in 1852), Klimovichsky, Kopyssky county (renamed Goretsky in 1861), Mogilev, Mstislavsky, Orshansky, Rogachevsky, Sennensky , Starobykhovsky district (in 1852 renamed Bykhovsky), Chaussky, Cherikovsky.
IN late XIX At the beginning of the 20th century, the province included 11 counties.
With the introduction of zemstvo institutions in 1864, the province was left non-zemstvo. In 1903, the "Regulations on the management of the zemstvo economy in the provinces of Vitebsk, Volyn, Kiev, Minsk, Mogilev, Podolsk" was adopted, according to which a modified order of the zemstvo administration was introduced in the province, with the appointment of all members of the zemstvo councils and zemstvo vowels from the government. This procedure was recognized as unsuccessful, after which, from 1910, a bill was developed on the introduction of elected zemstvo institutions in these provinces, but also with exceptions to general order aimed at removing Polish landowners from participating in zemstvos. The adoption of this law in 1911 was accompanied by an acute political crisis (see Law on Zemstvos in the Western Provinces). Elected zemstvos in these six provinces have been operating since 1912.
Occupation boom for the province, 1918.
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THE CITY OF SMUGGLERS
frontier life
Haven't had time yet new frontier clearly and firmly divide the old primordially Russian lands, as in the fresh border strip that replaced the melted front, a stormy border life with all its typical manifestations began to boil.
- Smuggling, "agents", "processing" of the border guards and speculation, speculation, speculation without measure and end.
Border town of Orsha.
Not so long ago it was a quiet, dirty provincial town, no different from other county "cities" of the Mogilev province. Most of its inhabitants, it seems, were only engaged in borrowing from each other "for the holiday" or carrying on petty, most primitive trade with the village.
And now?
Now Orsha "supplies" Minsk, Vilna, Warsaw and almost Vienna and Berlin and back - Smolensk, Moscow and Petrograd with chemical products, saccharin with fabrics, soap, knitwear.
Orsha "sets the tone". Orsha dictates prices.
And even though there is still no trace of Russian-German or Russian-Austrian treaties, local trade "fraternization" has already begun and is successfully developing widely:
- Smuggling.
Everyone here is engaged in smuggling, from German and our “border guards” to visiting peasants, who also often come across “keels” of “sweet” (saccharin), “bitter” (caffeine), “colored” (aniline paints) and “solid "(flints for lighters).
Orsha "exchange"
The transportation of goods across the border in one direction or the other, as well as their further transportation in constantly audited trains, is fraught with great risk, and merchants coming to Orsha, both from Russia and from the occupied regions, prefer to resell goods to clever “dared men” who “cross” the border. "or desperate speculators following in Moscow.
Thus, an impromptu "exchange" is being created in Orsha, which, no worse than the London or New York exchanges, dictates prices to world markets.
For example, women's stockings that are listed in Moscow at 180-200 rubles a dozen get here: while the Orsha "stock exchange" sets the price for them at 300-350 rubles, and with a further "legitimate" increase, they are already sold in Minsk for 500 or more rubles per dozen.
But a particularly wild bacchanalia took place at one time at the Orsha "stock exchange" with German saccharin (Susstoff) and Austrian flints for lighters. The prices for these commodities have risen to such an extent in comparison with the existing ones in Minsk that almost all Minsk residents, people of the most diverse professions and social status, have engaged in profitable transport of saccharin and flint to Orsha.
And began uniform stock market insanity!
What was happening at that time in Moscow with these goods is easy to imagine:
- 5000-6000 rubles. per kilo.
But then something happened that was bound to happen by virtue of the iron economic laws. Depletion of the Minsk market and saturation of the Moscow market.
Prices rise in Minsk and fall in Moscow.
And the reverse movement began. Again, the Orsha "exchange" began to bustle.
The same with Ukrainian and Polish sugar. The price for him in Minsk is 5 rubles. per pound, and it is clear why in Moscow it reaches 25-30 rubles. per pound.
"Agents"
Before you have time to get out of the car, which is tightly packed with people and littered from top to bottom with bundles, bags, baskets and boxes, a smart guy “meets” you, your compatriot, depending on your nationality:
Pole, Latvian, Jew, Armenian…
- Are you "leftist"? - stuns you with an unexpected question in an undertone.
Of course, you assume that this refers to your political beliefs and shrug your hands in bewilderment:
- Where are the beliefs?
But the next one, pronounced almost in a whisper: “Are you without a pass? .. Don’t worry, I’ll arrange everything for myself.” Explains everything to you right away.
Since at present obtaining a pass to the occupied places presents insurmountable difficulties and involves endless red tape, it is quite understandable that in most cases you answer in the affirmative and dutifully follow your unexpected "benefactor", who, having gone with you outside the station, here but in some special, as if learned, obviously professional, tongue twister, he verbally states his “price list” to you:
- Without things 200, with things 300, with goods 100 pounds, with money 10 from the ruble.
Before you:
- "Agent"
"Tse-Ka" smuggling
If you agree, the “agent” will lead you through some dirty streets, and you will find yourself in the vast gates of some ancient building, obviously a former Jesuit monastery, and through a vast, but overgrown with grass courtyard and some kind of gate in a stone overgrown dark - with green moss on the wall - to another courtyard, where in one of the buildings there is a lively tavern, where you can get various "foreign" snacks and even cognac.
Here you meet the most variegated audience: both refugees, and speculators, and "agents", and border guard soldiers, both ours and the Germans. There are various deals going on here. Here the schedule of guards of our and German cordons is known. Here you are introduced to "guides" and "your" sentries. Here carts are hired and capital is "secured". In one word here:
- "Tse-Ka" smuggling.
border crossing
Having been in this or another similar “Tse-Ka” and having “provided” the money, if you have any, that is, having insured them with one of the “respected in the city” persons, as well as having secured the necessary “personal acquaintance”, you will calmly and quite safely cross the border, sometimes even as if quite legally, and your documents are checked, things are looked through and everything turns out:
"In order".
And then you are transferred to "your" sentry behind the cordon, which provides you with peace of mind already in the occupied territory.
("V. M.")
It was the exact establishment of the boundaries of land holdings of both individuals and peasant communities, cities, churches and other possible land owners.
Sample of Babinovichi county
Vitebsk province
Vitebsk district 2 versts
1.2 versts
2 versts
1 verst
2 versts
2 versts
Nevelsk district 2 versts
Polotsk district 2 versts
2 versts
Sebezh district 2 versts
2 versts
Minsk province
2 versts
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Mogilev province
Belitsky district 2 versts
2 versts
Klimovichi district 2 versts
Kopyssky district 2 versts
Mogilev district 2 versts
Mstislav county 2 versts
Orsha district 2 versts
Rogachev county 2 versts
Senno county 2 versts
Starobykhovsky district 2 versts
Chaussky district 2 versts
Cherikovsky district 2 versts
3-verst maps of Belarus.
F.F. the scale is three versts, which in translation into the modern system of calculation will be 1:126000, that is, 1 cm - 1.260 km. These old cards date back to the second half of the 19th century, maps were printed starting from 1860. and up to the beginning of 1900.
All maps with good detailing of objects, churches, mills, cemeteries, relief, type of terrain and other objects are shown.
Sample 3-layout
Maps can be downloaded.
Special Map of European Russia.
is a huge cartographic publication, calculated on 152 sheets and covering a little more than half of Europe. Mapping lasted 6 years, from 1865 to 1871. Map scale: in 1 inch - 10 versts, 1:420000, which in the metric system is approximately 1 cm - 4.2 km.
Maps can be downloaded.
Maps of the Red Army.
(Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army) were compiled and printed both in the USSR in the period from 1925 to 1941, and in Germany, in preparation for the war, in the period 1935-41. On maps printed in Germany, the German name is often printed next to the Russian name of a village, river, etc.
250 meters.
Poland (Poland) 1:25 000
500 meters.
kilometers.
Maps can be downloaded.
Polish maps WIG.
The cards were published in pre-war Poland - Military Institute of Geography (Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny), the map data scale is 1:100000 and 1:25000 or, to put it simply, 1 cm - 1 km and 1 cm -250 m the quality of the maps is very good - 600 dpi, respectively, and the size of the maps is also not small, in fact, everything is more than 10 megabyte.
Explanatory, detailed and search engine-friendly maps. All the smallest details are visible: manors, dungeons, farms, manors, taverns, chapels, mills, etc.
Kilometer.
WIG map sample.
250 meters
One-verst map of Belarus.
A one-verst map of the western border area in a scale of 1 verst in an inch (1:42000) was published from the 1880s until the First World War, and was reprinted until the end of the 1930s.
Maps in scale 1:42000.
Military topographic 2-verst map of the Western Border Space.
Maps on a scale of 1:84000 (two-verst). Two-verst maps of the western border area began to be printed in 1883. The cards were also basic topographic maps during the First World War in the Russian army.
Maps available for free download
Maps are not available for free download, about getting maps - write to mail or ICQ
Historical information on the province
Mogilev Governorate is an administrative-territorial unit in the north-west of the Russian Empire.
It was formed in 1772 after the first division of the Commonwealth from a part of the Belarusian territories that were ceded to Russia (the northern part became part of the Pskov province). Initially, the Mogilev province included the Mogilev, Mstislavl, Orsha and Rogachev provinces.
In 1777 Mogilev province was divided into 12 counties. In 1778, the province was renamed the Mogilev governorship, which was abolished in 1796, and the counties became part of the Belarusian province. In 1802, the Mogilev province was restored as part of the former 12 counties.
From September 1917, the province was assigned to the Western Region, in 1918 to the Western Commune, from January 1919 - to the BSSR, and from February - to the RSFSR. On July 11, 1919, the Mogilev province was abolished, 9 of its counties were included in the Gomel province, the Mstislav county was transferred to Smolensk, and the Senno county was transferred to the Vitebsk province.
In 1938, the Mogilev region was formed with the center in Mogilev.
Initially, the Mogilev province included 12 counties: Babinovichsky (abolished in 1840), Belitsky county (renamed Gomel in 1852), Klimovichsky, Kopyssky county (renamed Goretsky in 1861), Mogilev, Mstislavsky, Orshansky, Rogachevsky, Senno, Starobykhovsky county (in 1852 renamed Bykhovsky), Chaussky, Cherikovsky.
In the late XIX - early XX centuries, the province included 11 counties:
No. Uyezd County town Area, verst² Population (1897), people
1 Bykhovskiy Bykhov (6,381 people) 4,105.8 124,820
2 Gomel Gomel (36,775 people) 4,719.4 224,723
3 Goretsky Gorki (6,735 people) 2,487.0 122,559
4 Klimovichi Klimovichi (4,714 people) 3,711.4 143,287
5 Mogilev Mogilev (43,119 people) 3,009.9 155,740
6 Mstislavsky Mstislavl (8,514 people) 2,220.4 103,300
7 Orsha Orsha (13,061 people) 4,813.9 187,068
8 Rogachevsky Rogachev (9,038 people) 6,546.1 224,652
9 Senno Senno (4,100 people) 4,268.8 161,652
10 Chaussky Chausy (4,960 people) 2,168.0 88,686
11 Cherikovsky Cherikov (5,249 people) 4,083.9 150,277
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