![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Vilna Governorate. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 00:20, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Wilna. - This was formerly the capital of a Lithuanian palatinate, but now of a Russian province or government. It is situated in a hilly country, and occupies several eminences near the river Vilna or Vilia, 400 miles south-south-west of Petersburgh, and 195 east of Koningsberg. Its circuit is nearly four miles ; its population, amounting in 1788 to 21,000, is now nearly 30,000. Like other towns in Poland and Russia, it is built chiefly of wood, very deficient in cleanliness, and exhibits a'striking contrast of wretchedness and tawdry magnificence. Wilna is the seat of a Greek metropolitan and a Catholic bishop. Its university, established 1570, was new modelled by the Russian government in 1803. Connected with the establishment is an observatory and several libraries. There are in Wilna also a gymnasium or classical school, a seminary for the education of the Catholic clergy, another for those of the Greek church, and an institution for youths of good family.
The province of Wilna contains the north part of Lithuania. It extends from 53° 40' to 56° 15' of north lat. ; has an area of 2300 square miles, and a population of 1,000,000. The trade, such as it is, is carried on by the Jews. The principal rivers are the Niemen, the Vilia, the Pripez, and the Narew ; and the chief towns are Lida, Breslaw, Smorgone, Dory, Oszmiana or Oshmiana, and Molodegno. At the latter place, on November 29, 1812, the Emperor Napoleon, surrounded by an escort of officers, left the miserable remains of his army, on their retreat from Moscow.
M. Ross (of Durham.) A History of Poland, from Its Foundation as a State to the Present Time ... 1835
References
Due to frequent change of armies and ideology in Vilna and in Lithuania generally, the region is known for its curious phenomenon. Part of people took blurry identity which called 'tuteiszia' (Тутэйшыя) which could be translated as 'here people', 'local people'. This phenomena saved to modern days and there same-named tragicomedy theatre play was staged in 1922 by Yanka Kupala.