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Vistulan Country (
Privislyansky Krai; ) was the name for the lands of
Congress Poland, after the defeat of the
November Uprising (1830-31) increasingly stripped from autonomy and incorporated into
Imperial Russia. It also continued to be informally known as
Russian Poland.
After
1837 all
voivodeships that constituted the
Kingdom of Poland were turned into
gubernias and became an integral part of Russia, ruled directly by the
Russian tsars. In
1831 the
Polish Army, constitution,
Sejm and local self-administration were disbanded. Also all universities were closed, only to be reopened several years later as purely-Russian high schools.
Initially the territory maintained certain degree of autonomy than other gubernias. The former Kingdom of Poland continued to use the Polish currency (
złoty) and the
Administrative Council retained some of its privileges (although it was directly controlled by the Russian governor Field Marshal
Ivan Paskevich). However, by
1832 the currency and the customs border were abolished, as was the
metric system and
penal code. Also the
Catholic Church was persecuted and most monasteries were closed and nationalised while the
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church were officially banned and most of their followers were treated as
Orthodox.
After the
January Uprising in
1863, the
coat of arms of the Congress Kingdom was abandoned, the
Polish language was banned from office and education and the process of incorporation of the Polish gubernias and
russification of its administration was completed.
After the reform of 1867 (see
Administrative division of Congress Poland) it consisted of 10
guberniyas: Сувалкская (
Suvalskaya), Ломжинская (
Lomzhinskaya), Плоцкая (
Plotskaya), Седлецкая (
Sedletskaya) and Люблинская (
Lublinskaya) by the right side of the
Vistula River, and the remaining 5 by the left side: Калишская (
Kalishskaya), Варшавская (
Varshavskaya), Петроковская (
Petrokovskaya), Радомская (
Radomskaya) and Келецкая (
Keletskaya).
The territory was a
namestnichestvo until 1875 and later
Governorate General - see
Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland.
During
World War I, in
1915 the area was occupied by the
Central Powers and in
1917 Russia ceded all Polish territories it possessed to
Germany and
Austria-Hungary.
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