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	Vitebsk
		Vitebsk is one of the oldest towns in Belarus.
		Vitebsk often opposed invasions of conquerors, because it had the advantageous geographical position.
		The former palace of the governor (end of the 18th century) was the residence of all governors of Vitebsk Province.
	www.belarus.org.uk /vitebsk.html (295 words)

	Female headdresses / Traditional culture of the Russians of Siberia
		A soroka of Dankov district of Kursk province.
		A soroka of Nizhnedevitsk district of Voronezh province.
		A kokoshnik of Dmitrov district of Moscow province and a kokoshnik of Arzamas district of Nizhniy Novgorod prov.
	www.ic.omskreg.ru /~folklore/mk/golovn/index_.shtml (2634 words)

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		Born at the settlement of Budkovshchina, Vitebsk Province, in the family of a member of gentry.
		In 1886-1894 he was engaged in archaeological observations and excavations in Mogilev and Vitebsk Provinces, discovered the memorial of the XIIth Century -- the so-called "Boris' stone".
		Graduated from Alexander Gymnasium in Vitebsk and from the Historical-and-Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg University in 1873 with an academic degree of the Candidate of the Historical Sciences.
	kolas.bas-net.by /bla/e_indx.htm (2423 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Vitebsk often exposed invesions of conquerors, because it had the advantageous geografical position.
		In 1320 the Vitebsk Principality was included into the structure of Lithuania.
		The former palace of the governor (end of the 18-th century) was the residence of all governors of Vitebsk Province.
	www.belarustourist.minsk.by /english/city/vitebsk.htm (302 words)

	Latgale Research Center - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Vitebsk was former Polish territory in which the Polonized old German nobility (and the Polish nobility) were dominant while in the Baltic provinces German barons were in charge.
		Until 1889 the Baltic provinces had greater autonomy with considerable self-government and special privileges in local matters not granted to the rest of Russia.
		The Vitebsk province, on the other hand, was an integral part of the Russian empire.
	www.hood.edu /academic/latgale/history.shtml (1456 words)

	State Archives of Vitebsk region
		Later, it was reorganized as Archival Bureau, in 1927 — as Vitebsk Historical Archives, in 1938 — as State Archives of Vitebsk Region.
		In 1941, the Vitebsk Archives was the largest archival institution in Belarus.
		The fonds of courts and public prosecutor offices, Vitebsk provincial department of justice, notary's offices preserve protocols of the administrative commission in the places of imprisonment and agricultural settlements.
	archives.gov.by /EArh/erxo_vitebsk.htm (538 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Latvia
		The provinces of Livonia and Latgale were known respectively as Liflandia and Vitebsk Gubernia under the Russian occupation.
		Under the duchy, Piltene became a sort of island within the province of Courland, leading to numerous military conflicts with Poland, until it was purchased by Poland in 1585.
		Courland Jewish culture differs significantly from that of the rest of Latvia, due to the province’s proximity to Germany, though it was slightly influenced by the neighboring Lithuanian Jewish community.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Latvia.html (3056 words)

	II. Volynskaya and Hersonskaya governs. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		By the decision of Vitebsk assembly of deputy noblemen the were registered in Part III of noble genealogy book of Vitebsk province (due to personal merits of Matvey Egorovich).
		In the year of 1844, the same Matvey Egorovich Dembowsky (being a collegiat counsilor, provincial post master of Ryasan province) applied to the same assembly with a petition of his youngest son Leopold-Ieppolit coranking to the clan.
		By the decision of Vitebsk assembly of deputy noblemen (January, 20, 1844) Leopold-Ippolit Matveevich Dembowsky was coranked to the clan of his father with enry to the same part of genealogy book.
	dembowski.art-moscow.com /eng/heraldry/tree3.htm (1188 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russia
		The greatest increase in the population is given by the region of New Russia, that of the Baltic, and the Province of Moscow.
		The Province of Irkutsk, in Eastern Siberia, is the chief gold region of the country, and especially the District of Olekminsk, which produces 6 tons of the metal.
		The treaty of 15 Jan., 1772, between Russia and Prussia sanctioned the iniquitous division of Poland, which was desired by Frederick II and was hastened by the policy of the Polish nobility and, to a great extent, of the clergy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13231c.htm (19233 words)

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		In 1995 a cousin of mine received a research report from RAGAS on family in Vitebsk conducted at the National Archives in Minsk.
		The record groups are as follows: Quote from RAGAS: In the record groups the "Vitebsk Town Government", the "Vitebsk Province Government" the "Vitebsk Province Statistic Committee" there are the following documents concerning to genealogy of persons of the surname BLINIK, who resided in the town of Vitebsk, 1874-1915.
		A printout on Vitebsk from the Museum of the Diaspora obtained in 1983 mentions that the Jewish community kept a Pinkas book from 1706 onwards.
	www.physics.brocku.ca /~edik/Vitebsk/ngrossman.html (311 words)

	Pravda.RU:International Marc Chagall Days Begin in Vitebsk, Belarus, Today
		Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya, Director of the Marc Chagall museum in Vitebsk, said the visitors who had arrived represented 9 countries, some of them well known researchers of the heritage of this acknowledged leader of the 20th century's Avant-garde in art.
		Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in the Liozno, a suburb of Vitebsk.
		In 1992, in Vitebsk, in Pokrov Street, a monument to the great Avant-garde artist was opened, a memorial plaque affixed to the house he lived in.
	newsfromrussia.com /cis/2002/07/08/31988_.html (401 words)

	Northern Dvina River - Britannica Concise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Northern Dvina River - river formed by the junction of the Sukhona and Yug rivers at the city of Velikiy Ustyug, in Vologod oblast (province) of Russia.
		Vychegda River - tributary of the Northern Dvina River, Komi republic and Arkhangelsk oblast (province), northwestern Russia.
		It lies on the shore of the White Sea's Gulf of Dvina, at the western edge of the Northern Dvina River delta.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9363276?tocId=9363276 (553 words)

	Vitebsk -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A city and administrative center of the Vitebsk oblast (province), Vitebsk is located in northeastern Belarus.
		Although he borrowed elements from cubism, impressionism, and fauvism, Chagall developed a style that cannot be classified with any artistic movement of his...
		Lissitzky, El (1890–1941), Russian painter, typographer, and designer, born in Smolensk; appointed teacher 1919 by Marc Chagall at revolutionary school of art in Vitebsk; series of abstract geometric paintings with nonsensical collective name Proun; professor at state art school in Moscow 1921; left U.S.S.R. when government turned against modern art; lived in Hanover, Germany, 1925–28;...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075565 (541 words)

	Crusader Kings @ The Wargamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They controlled a number of provinces but two, Smolensk and Vitebsk, are within striking distance and tantalizing as they border Moskva.
		Smolensk is captured in February 1082 and I choose to continue the war laying siege to Vitebsk.
		This province is captured in October 1082 at which point I decided to accept the Abkhazia offer of peace and an indemnity of 149 gold pieces.
	crusaderkings.wargamer.com /moskva_page3.html (663 words)

	Latgale Research Center - Latgalians in Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Latgale was part of the Vitebsk guberniya governed from Mohilev while the rest of Latvia fell within the Baltic provinces under a special administrative rule granted to the German Baltic nobility.
		At the start of the general Latvian awakening in the last half of the nineteenth century, the western Latvians displayed a widespread ignorance of their countrymen in the Vitebsk province.
		Francis Kemps says that at the start of the 20th century the three provinces were referred to by its inhabitants as “Latgale” (also Latgala and Letgalija).
	www.hood.edu /academic/latgale/latgalians_detail.shtml (1768 words)

	Marc Chagall - Britannica Concise
		The Beehive housed the ramshackle living quarters and studios of many painters and sculptors, among them Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Chaim Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens, Alexander Archipenko, Albert Gleizes, Jean...
		Vitebsk - city and administrative centre of Vitebsk oblast (province), northeastern Belarus.
		Vitebsk, first mentioned in 1021, was a major fortress and trading centre and had a stormy history.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9360236 (557 words)

	Russian Documents from Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917
		Resolution from "citizen-tillers of the soil," Kursk Province, 29 June 1917.
		Petition to the minister of agriculture from Andrei Kulagin, peasant in Penza Province, received 21 August 1917.
		Resolution of workers and employees of the Bogomdarovannyi mine, Yenisei Province, to the Commission on Elections to the Constituent Assembly, 10 December 1917.
	www.yale.edu /annals/Steinberg/Steinberg_title_page.htm (2730 words)

	Restaurants in Vitebsk Belarus Restaurant Reviews
		Belarusian military presence is also being felt in the cities of Homel and Vitebsk.
		In 2005, she captures 2nd award at the Young Performer Contest at the Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk and secures the victory at the Song of Belarus-2005 fall round...
		In mid-January, thermometers in the north-eastern Vitebsk province dipped to a chilly minus...
	www.diningguide411.com /restaurants/Belarus/Vitebsk (271 words)

	ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Recipients
		Phraseology of local dialects of Hrodzenshchyna (Grodnenskaya province) vs phraseology of the Belarusian literary language.
		Religious life of the Russian province: worshipping of rural sacred places in the Russian North-West in the late 20th to early 21st centuries.
		Uezd [regional] ideology: religious and political life of a Russian province at the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.acls.org /humanities-byruuk-recips.htm (8687 words)

	Elibron: Collection
		The Coat of Arms of the Voronezh province.
		The Coat of Arms of the Baku province.
		The Coat of Arms of the Vitebsk province.
	www.elibron.com /english/other/img_cltn_detail.phtml?cltn_id=965 (486 words)

	ShtetLinks Page -- Lepel, Belarus
		(Leppel’) -- District capital of Vitebsk province, nearLepel’ Lake and the Essa and Ul’yanka Rivers.
		--District capital of Vitebsk province, near Lepel’ Lake, andclose to the Essa and Ul’yanka (Ulla) Rivers.
		In 1913 there were in the district(without the city) 190,700 inhabitants (56 souls per 1 square verst);this is the most thickly populated district in the province.
	www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /Lepel/lepel.html (3372 words)

	eyespymag.com: the magazine that lifts the lid on the world of intelligence, espionage, terrorism, and much more
		Though a White Russian, Anastase Andreievitch Vonsiatsky was born in Warsaw, then Russia, on June 12, 1898, the son of Andre Nicholas Vonsiatsky and Inna Anastase Plyshevsky Vonsiatsky.
		Vonsiatsky's father was a Colonel in the Russian Gendarmerie and was a nobleman of the Province of Vitebsk, in White Russia.
		Vonsiatsky's ancestors on his paternal side were very close to the Czarists by reason of their military services and consequently one of the great-great-grandparents was granted a titled estate by one of the Czars.
	www.eyespymag.com /espionagecases/vonsiatsky1.htm (1169 words)

	Druja, Belarus
		The district of Hlybokaje is located in the north-western part of Belarusian Vitebsk province.
		Vitebsk oblast authorities pressurize Hlybokaje executive committee to finally close the edition.
		There were dozens of video shoots by national and oblast TV and programs were shown on Minsk and Vitebsk channels.
	www.belarusguide.com /cities/hlybokaje_AK.html (5381 words)

	What&Where Minsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Purchasing a kufar for the celebration was absolutely essential for any girl preparing her trousseau.
		In Vitebsk province before departing for the wedding a bride blessed her kufar and decorated the wall over it with ribbons made with her own hands.
		The masters enjoyed great authority and were famous province wide.
	www.minskreview.com /n5/kufars-e.html (1456 words)

	Pinkas Hakehillot Latvia v'Estonia: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When Jelgava was annexed to Russia, it had the largest Jewish community in Kurland, constituting 70% of the Jews in the province (in 1797, there were 642 Jewish males in Jelgava and 896 in the whole of Kurland) and 20% of the population of the city.
		In 1840, 115 families, numbering 863 souls (an average of 7.5 per family) left Jelgava to settle in the Kherson province in southern Russia in the framework of a Russian government program.
		He was born in Wladislawow in Suwalk province and graduated from the rabbinical seminary in Vienna.
	www.jewishgen.org /yizkor/pinkas_latvia/lat_00149.html (8614 words)

	BIBLIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Orshanskii Herbovnik [The Armorial of Orsha], Vitebsk, 1900.
		Francisek Piekosinski, Herbarz Szlachty Witebskiej [Armorial of the Nobility of Vitebsk], Cracow, 1898, reprinted Poznan, 1998.
		providing a count of contemporary occurences of surnames by province; and a search engine identifying coats of arms associated with surnames.
	www.velde.net /topics/national/polish-bibliography.htm (2661 words)

	THE MOTHER OF GOD - The Tsesarskaya(Caesar)-Borovskaya Mother of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While no historical record to document the date of its appearance has survived, tradition holds that it was during the first half of the 12
		According to local tradition, the Icon was found near a cemetery in Usvyat, Vitebsk province, in a place known as Bor.
		For this reason, the populace knew it as the Borovskaya Icon.
	www.stjohndc.org /russian/Theotokos/0106b.htm (308 words)

	Shedding new light on Chagall et al. / SFMOMA, L.A. museum offer comprehensive looks at Parisian modernists
		Born in Vitebsk, Russia, in 1887, Chagall lived until 1985, which made him more nearly our contemporary than other artists of his generation.
		From there he visited Russia, intending to return to Paris, but found himself beached in his homeland by the outbreak of World War I. Following the 1917 revolution, Chagall was appointed fine arts commissar for Vitebsk province.
		He and Kazimir Malevich, the Russian pioneer of abstract painting, were colleagues for a time at the art academy Chagall founded there.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/20/PK274851.DTL (1030 words)

	National Historical Archive of the Belarus Republic, Minsk
		Vitebsk provincial committee for the development of the Jewish census
		219 Data for the compilation of a demographic map of the Jewish population in the Vitebsk province, 1872-1888
		Vitebsk Provincial Committee for the examination and compilation of inventories of landlord estates
	www.jewishgen.org /belarus/minsk_archive.htm (12292 words)

	Postavy New Scenes
		1970 - born in city Postavy, Vitebsk province, Belarus.
		Since 1984-1987 studied at children's art school of Postavy.
		In 1992 has finished Art-graphic faculty of the Vitebsk state university.
	www.eilatgordinlevitan.com /postavy/pos_pages/postavy_new_scenes.html (198 words)

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