December 4 is the day of the annexation of the Gomel and Rechitsa districts to Belarus. The formation of a new statehood on the territory of the former Russian Empire, which accelerated after the Bolsheviks came to power, put Gomel and the Gomel region at the epicenter International relations... Gomel turned into an "apple of discord" between the RSFSR, the Belarusian People's Republic, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and a little later between the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the BSSR. The revived Polish state headed by J. Pilsudski also claimed this territory.
During the occupation of the Gomel region by the Kaiser Germany (from late March 1919 to mid-January 1919), Gomel and the district were part of the Polesie province of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
Almost immediately after the Red Army units of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) entered Gomel, on January 16, 1919, it decided to separate the Vitebsk, Smolensk and Mogilev provinces from the BSSR, leaving only the Minsk and Grodno provinces in the Belarusian republic.
In early February of the same year, the First All-Belarusian Congress of Soviets legalized the formation of the BSSR and recognized the entry of these Belarusian provinces into the RSFSR. Thus, Gomel ended up in the RSFSR, where he remained until December 1926.
Territory of Soviet Belarus in 1921-1924
This resolution of the territorial issue on the part of Moscow was conditioned by two main reasons. First, at the beginning of 1919, Poland began to declare more and more its claims to Belarusian lands (restoration of the Commonwealth within the borders of 1772). During this period, the Soviet government strove to avoid a military conflict with Poland. It offered the Poles peace negotiations and the resolution of all disputed territorial issues in Poland's favor. But on the other hand, agreeing to certain concessions to the Polish side, the Bolsheviks did not want to risk the entire Belarusian territory, having included most of it in the RSFSR in advance. Another reason for "cutting back" the territory of the BSSR was the desire of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to weaken national tendencies in the republic.
Almost immediately after the incorporation of Gomel into the RSFSR, the question arose of creating the Gomel province. Back at the end of the 19th century, the tsarist government planned to modify and transform its internal and external borders. This was due to the fact that Gomel, as a result of rapid economic development at the beginning of the twentieth century, turned into the center of a zone of economic gravity, which included not only the south of the Mogilev province, but part of the adjacent districts of the Minsk and Chernigov provinces. Implement this idea royal authorities did not have time.
The question of creating a province with a center in Gomel arose again in early February 1919, when the leadership of the Polesie Committee of the RCP (b) and the Gomel Revolutionary Committee turned to the Moscow authorities with such an initiative. At the same time, it was planned to create the Mogilev province, but in a truncated form.
The Mogilev provincial committee of the RCP (b) did not agree with the "Gomel version". In the opinion of the members of the provincial committee, the continued existence of the Mogilev province would have been impossible without Gomel. The “Mogilev version” was based on the idea of \u200b\u200btransferring the center of the province from Mogilev to Gomel, while preserving its territory in full.
The preparatory work on the legalization of the second decision took several months.
On March 24, 1919, a temporary Gomel provincial executive committee was formed, which at the end of April decided to rename the Mogilev province to Gomel, to transfer all provincial institutions from Mogilev to Gomel. This decision was approved by the 1st Gomel Provincial Congress of Soviets on May 25, 1919. The congress also spoke in favor of leaving the province as part of the RSFSR. The final legalization of the decision to create the Gomel province took place on July 11, 1919, when the corresponding order was adopted by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR. The province included 9 districts of the liquidated Mogilev province, 4 - Chernigov and Rechitsa districts of the Minsk province.
Once again, Gomel found itself at the center of interstate relations between the RSFSR and Poland in July 1920, when Minsk was liberated as a result of a counteroffensive by the Red Army. Naturally, the issue of re-proclamation of the Belarusian Republic was on the agenda.
On July 31, 1920, the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Belarusian Republic issued the "Declaration on the Proclamation of the Independence of the SSRB." The borders of the state in this declaration were mentioned only in the most general form.
Nor did the Riga Peace Treaty make adjustments to the territorial issue. The “revived” Belarusian Republic included only 6 incomplete districts of the Minsk province.
The full development of the Belarusian state in the indicated sizes was impossible. The separation of central Belarus from the eastern provinces, with which close economic and cultural ties have traditionally developed, negatively affected all aspects of social life: interaction between various industries was disrupted, the recovery process slowed down national economy, there were numerous obstacles to the revival of the national culture and language.
The first attempts to raise the question of the need to expand the territory of the BSSR were associated with projects for the economic zoning of the Soviet republics.
In September-October-November 1921, the party and Soviet bodies of Belarus raised the question of creating an economic regional association as part of the Smolensk, Vitebsk, Gomel and Minsk provinces with the center in Minsk. Since that time, the relevant bodies and organizations began to collect and systematize materials on the economic necessity of uniting ethnographic Belarus.
The issue of annexing Gomel and other provinces to Belarus was considered in March 1923 at the VII Congress of the CP (b) B and the II session of the CEC of the BSSR of the fourth convocation. In April, the Central Committee of the CP (b) B sent a special memorandum on the territory of the Belarusian Republic to the Central Committee of the RCP (b). It noted that 80% of Belarusians live in the Gomel province, 4% of Russians and Ukrainians, 12-14% of Jews, and 1% of Poles.
On July 12, 1923, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) instructed the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee to create an appropriate commission to resolve the issue of changing the borders of Belarus. On November 29, 1923, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) got acquainted with the results of its work. The commission proposed "to add to the SSRB the districts of the bordering provinces that are related to it in everyday life, ethnographic and economic-economic relations ... Mogilev, Rogachevsky, Bykhovsky, Klimovichsky, Chaussky, Gomel, Rechitsky, Gomel province, annexing the remaining districts ... to the Bryansk province."
In December 1923, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR created another commission, which included representatives of the BSSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the RSFSR. A.S. Yenukidze was appointed as the chairpersons of the commission. the majority of the members of this commission considered it inexpedient to break up the industry of three districts: Rechitsa, Gomel and Novozybkovsky. In the opinion of the Russian part of the commission, the Belarusian population in the Rechitsa and Gomel districts is a tiny percentage. This seems to be evidenced by the data of the 1920 census. But it should be noted that this census was carried out in specific conditions, when peace with Poland had not yet been signed, and rumors were spreading on the territory liberated from the Polish occupiers that Poland was claiming all the lands occupied by the Belarusians. This forced the local population to register as Russians in order to avoid joining Poland.
The local leadership also opposed the inclusion of the Gomel province in the BSSR. In its reports, it criticized the Belarusian plan and tried to prove its futility. The Belarusian character of the population of the eastern provinces was questioned, the lack of craving for the Belarusian culture and language among the residents was noted.
Difficulties with the entry of the Gomel region into the BSSR were also due to the fact that the Gomel province was quite developed in industrial and agricultural relations.
All this ultimately predetermined the fate of Gomel.
On February 4, 1924, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR adopted a resolution on the transfer to the BSSR of regions with a predominantly Belarusian population. According to the information of the Gomel Provincial Executive Committee, 53% of the territory and 41% of the population of the province were transferred to the BSSR. Counties remained within the borders of the RSFSR: Gomel, Starodubsky, Novozybkovsky, Rechitsky and Klintsovsky. Gomel province, after the annexation of a significant part of its territory to the BSSR, was retained as an independent administrative-territorial unit, although there was a danger of its liquidation. The leadership of the Bryansk province addressed the CEC of the RSFSR with such a proposal. The Gomel Provincial Executive Committee with great difficulty managed to prove that the province has a right to exist.
On March 7, 1924, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR approved the changes in the borders between the BSSR and the RSFSR.
In October 1925, on the initiative of one of the groups of the Belarusian emigration, headed by A. Tsvikevich and with the support of the Central Committee of the CP (b) B, a conference of Belarusian national organizations was held in Berlin. Its participants called "that Belarusian units, such as Gomel and other eastern districts, should be annexed to this republic (BSSR), according to the will of the local population."
The first attempt to revise the results of the expansion was made in August 1924, when the Organizing Bureau, together with the leadership of the Gomel province, turned to the Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR with a proposal to include the Gori-Goretsk Agricultural Institute together with a part of the adjacent territory of the BSSR.
Attempts to revise the borders of the BSSR were also made in 1925. It was in this year that the "Organizational Bureau of the Western Region" in Smolensk began to develop projects for a new economic association, which was supposed to include the BSSR. On March 17, 1926, the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CP (b) B decided: to categorically obstruct the formation of the Western Region, to insist on the annexation of Gomel. A little later, the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR sent a detailed memorandum to Moscow on the advisability of including the Gomel province in the BSSR.
As in 1924, and now the leadership of the Gomel province opposed this decision. The issue of joining the Gomel region to Belarus was considered at the bureau of the provincial committee on July 24, 1926. The party committee believed that joining Belarus would not be supported by the workers, most of the peasantry, and would worsen the political mood of the working people. The leadership of the provincial committee argued that the industry of the province is to a very small extent connected with the BSSR, that it is possible to raise the question of joining only a certain part of the Rechitsa and Gomel districts to Belarus.
In May 1926, the Central Committee of the CP (b) B turned to the central party leadership with a similar proposal to annex the Gomel province to the BSSR. In all their appeals, reports and letters to the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), the leadership of the BSSR has always emphasized the political aspect of the problem. These documents noted that a negative solution to this issue could harm the revolutionary liberation movement in Western Belarus, as well as affect the position of the Belarusian intelligentsia in the BSSR. In one of his appeals to the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), the secretary of the CP (b) B A. Krinitsky noted that among the Belarusians abroad and part of the intelligentsia of the BSSR, the presence of "Gomel region, part of Pskov and even Smolensk region" in the RSFSR is considered the same injustice as Polish oppression in Western Belarus ”.
The vigorous activity of the Belarusian authorities yielded results.
To resolve practical issues of the annexation of the Gomel and Rechitsa districts (Moscow still did not go to the full satisfaction of the requirements of the Belarusian authorities), a special commission of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) was created, headed by J. Peters. From 6 to 15 October 1926, this commission examined 4 volosts of the Gomel district and 3 volosts of Rechitsa. Its members met with grassroots party and Soviet activists, held talks with workers and peasants, and attended Russian and Belarusian schools. As a result, the commission came to the following conclusions: the majority of the population in the surveyed counties is Belarusian by origin; spoken language is mixed ... "
Belarusian scientists came to similar conclusions, who in the summer of 1926, in accordance with the program of the government of the BSSR, conducted a number of expeditions to study the Gomel region (A. Serzhputovsky, P. Buzuk, A. Polevoy, G. Goretsky). Their substantiation about the Belarusian character of the population was based not only on statistical materials, but also on data from history, ethnography, and linguistics.
Analyzing the issue of the identity of the Gomel region, the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) B drew attention to an interesting fact: according to the 1917 census, 94.6% of the rural population of the Gomel district were Belarusians, and according to the 1920 census, 22%. This is explained by the fact that for the peasants brought up in the Russian Empire, the concepts of “Belarusian” and “Russian” were not mutually exclusive, but correlated as a part and a whole: “I am Belarusian - it means I am Russian”. This, in particular, is evidenced by the conclusion of the commission that conducted a survey of residents of the Gomel province in 1926: “Peasants, in most cases, answer about their nationality depending on how the question is posed to them: for example,“ are you Russian? ”, The answer“ we are Russians"; “Are you Belarusians?”, The answer is “we are Belarusians”. That is, the broad popular masses of the Gomel region (as, incidentally, and other regions of Belarus) did not see the need for national isolation from the Great Russians and, accordingly, were extremely negative about the annexation of their province to the BSSR.
Having studied all the materials, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on November 18, 1926 adopted a resolution: a) to consider as proven the Belarusian character of the population of the Gomel and Rechitsa districts of the Gomel province; b) recognize the need to join these counties to Belarus ... "
The plenum of the Central Committee of the CP (b) B on December 4, 1926 stated: “The annexation of the Gomel and Rechitsa districts: a) expands the base of the economic and cultural development of the BSSR; b) enhances the possibilities of rationalization and planning in the economy of the BSSR; c) strengthens the proletarian base of the BSSR; d) as a whole - contributes to the further strengthening of the USSR. "
The territory of Soviet Belarus at the end of 1926.The red dotted line shows the border of the SSRB in 1924-1926
On December 6, 1926, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee liquidated the Gomel province. This was the final resolution of an important and difficult issue for the Belarusian people.
On December 8, 1926, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR warmly greeted all the working people of Belarus, the population of the Gomel and Rechitsa districts with this event and called to merge into one working family in order to accelerate the economic and cultural growth of Belarus.
The return of Gomel oblast and Gomel to the BSSR significantly strengthened the economic base of Soviet Belarus, created new opportunities for further economic and socio-cultural development, raised the international authority of the BSSR, and contributed to the consolidation of the Belarusian people.
Golovki (Belarusian Haloўki) is a village in the Babichsky village council of the Rechitsa district of the Gomel region of Belarus.
History
According to written sources, it is known from the beginning of the 19th century as a village in the Vasilevichskaya volost of the Rechitsa district of the Minsk province. In 1825 it was designated in the Vasilevichsky parish. In 1858, the property of the treasury. According to the 1897 census, a parish school, a bakery store, a windmill and a horsemill operated.
From December 8, 1926 to December 30, 1927, the center of the Golovkovsky village council of Vasilevichsky, from August 4, 1927, the Rechitsa districts of the Gomel district. In 1930, a collective farm was organized. During the Great Patriotic War the invaders in June 1943 shot 40 residents. 124 residents died at the front. According to the 1959 census in the state farm "Zvezda" (center - the village of Babichi). There is a kindergarten school, a library, a feldsher-obstetric center, a post office.
Geography
Hydrography
On the Vedrich river (a tributary of the Dnieper river), in the west - the Korch ditch (flows into the Vedrich river).
Location
Transport network
Transport links along the country road, then the Vasilevichi - Rechitsa highway. The layout consists of a curved street with lanes oriented from southwest to northeast, to which a slightly curved street with latitudinal orientation joins in the south. The building is two-sided, loose, wooden, estate type.
Population
Number
Dynamics
- 1897 - 76 households, 554 inhabitants (according to the census).
- 1959 - 1217 inhabitants (according to the census).
- 2004 - 200 households, 478 inhabitants.
- 1908 - 103 households, 739 inhabitants.
- 1858 - 18 households, 215 inhabitants.
Rechitsa district - one of the 9 districts of the Minsk province of the Russian Empire. The county was formed in 1793 after the 2nd partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as part of the Chernigov governorship of the Russian Empire. In 1796, the county went to the Minsk province. In 1919 he was transferred to the Gomel province of the RSFSR. In December 1926, the Rechitsa district was transferred to the BSSR. It existed as an administrative unit until December 8, 1926, when it was renamed Rechitsa District.
Population
According to the 1897 census, 221.8 thousand people lived in Rechitsa district. Among them: Belarusians - 82.5%; Jews - 12.8%; Ukrainians - 1.7%; Russians - 1.4%; Poles - 1.1%. 9280 people lived in the district town of Rechitsa.
Rechitsa district - administrative division
Rechitsa uyezd included 53 volosts at different times. From 1870 to 1917, the administrative division of the Rechitsa district did not change and consisted of 23 volosts:
| Volost | 1861 | 1864 | 1870-1917 | 1926 |
| Avtyutevichskaya | X | X | ||
| Barbarovskaya | X | |||
| Belosorokskaya | X | |||
| Berezovskaya | X | |||
| Braginskaya | X | X | X | |
| Vasilevichskaya | X | X | X | |
| Verbovichskaya | X | |||
| Volosovichskaya | X | |||
| Gorvalskaya | X | X | X | |
| Gorodischskaya | X | |||
| Golovichskaya | X | |||
| Golchanskaya | X | |||
| Derazhichskaya | X | X | ||
| Dernovichskaya | X | |||
| Domanovichskaya | X | X | ||
| Dudichskaya | X | X | ||
| Zharskaya | X | |||
| Zagalskaya | X | |||
| Zaspenskaya | X | |||
| Iolchanskaya | X | |||
| Kazimirovskaya | X | |||
| Kaplichskaya | X | |||
| Karpovichskaya | X | X | ||
| Kozinichskaya | X | |||
| Kolenkovichskaya | X | |||
| Komarinskaya | X | |||
| Kryukovichskaya | X | X | ||
| Kuktsevichy | X | |||
| Loevskaya | X | X | X | |
| Malodushskaya | X | X | ||
| Mikulichskaya | X | X | ||
| Mosan | X | |||
| Mukhoedovskaya | X | |||
| Narovlyanskaya | X | |||
| Ostroglyadovichskaya | X | |||
| Otrubskaya | X | |||
| Petritskaya | X | |||
| Pogonskaya | X | |||
| Prokiselskaya | X | |||
| Rechitskaya | X | |||
| Rivne-Slobodskaya | X | X | ||
| Rudakovskaya | X | |||
| Ruchaevskaya | X | |||
| Savichskaya | X | X | ||
| Svidovichskaya | X | |||
| Teshkovskaya | X | |||
| Tulgovichskaya | X | |||
| Khabnyanskaya | X | |||
| Khoinikskaya | X | X | X | |
| Kholmechskaya | X | X | X | |
| Khrakovichskaya | X | |||
| Yurevichskaya | X | X | X | |
| Yakimo-Slobodskaya | X |
The site contains a list of localities and settlements of the Rechitsa district for 1870 and 1909.
Messages:
2019-07-29 Yury Petrusevich Zelenoche, village (Domanovichi volost)
Very interesting!!! Right now I am also working on this village. Great-grandfather, Fedorenko Georgy Gerasimovich, was also dispossessed, and a village council was made from the hut. Can your story be used for the Zelenoch School Museum? ...\u003e\u003e\u003e
2019-07-20 Anna Tokmina Rechitsa, city
Hello! I am looking for information about the genus FedorOvich. My ancestor Job (Ivov) FedorOvich left for the Stolypin reform with his family, at the beginning of the 20th century, first to the Volga, then to Kazakhstan. As I heard he comes from Rachitsa (near Minsk) ... Which is not on the map now. What kind of terrain I did not understand. For that I saw the town of Rechitsa and would like to check. Maybe this is where my ancestor comes from. Job (Ivov) FedorOvich was born approximately in the 30-50s of the 19th century .... quoted1\u003e\u003e\u003e
2019-06-18 Dmitry Tikhy
“... This church is located by the road opposite the courtyard; built of wooden round timber, old and requires repair, first of all, shalevka. ... In the temple, the altar is wooden, carved ... In this altar there is an image of Jesus Christ on the cross. Royal gates, carved, old, small, next to which the image of the Redeemer, the image of St. Nicholas ... On the other side of these royal gates is the image of the Most Holy Virgin Mary. A few values \u200b\u200bare also included in the inventory: a goblet gilded from the inside, a silver goblet and a gilded spoon. There was also a copper cross and a censer, two painted wooden altar crosses on stands, three banners, a Psalter, a Trebnik and other liturgical books. The bell tower stood in the parish cemetery at the church, there were three small bells on it ... "....\u003e\u003e\u003e
2019-06-10 Makarchuk Evgeniya Vladimirovna Near Lyudvinovka, village (Karpovichi volost)
looking for information about my ancestors - the grandfathers and great-grandfathers of my mother Evgenia Vladimirovna Makarchuk, born in 1932.
and along the female line of the ancestors of my grandmother Mickiewicz Natalya Vasilievna 1907 year ....\u003e\u003e\u003e
2019-05-11 makhnach yuri Glinische, village (Yurevichskaya volost)
2019-05-07 Alexander Ivanov Rudakov, village (Mikulich volost)
2019-04-22 Waldemar Wawrzecki Kolenkovichi, shtetl (Avtyutevichskaya volost)
Właściwie poszukuje informacji o miejscowości Wużyniec, która należała do Wawrzeckich w XVIII i poczatek XIX wieku, potem przeszła w ręce Oskierkow, byc może mieszkaja romwieniecze Interesuje mnie również historia miejscowości Wużyniec.
Pozdrawiam Waldemar Wawrzecki ...\u003e\u003e\u003e
2019-04-21 Main's Sable Boguslavets, village (Yurevichskaya volost)
Hello.
Can you help find information about the grandparents who lived in the present Grechikhino in the 1930s? Grandmother - Kudritskaya Varvara, grandfather - Kudritsky Peter.
Any information about them will be of interest (for example, dates of birth and death, patronymic, what they did, something about their parents).
Yours faithfully,
Maina Sobol ...\u003e\u003e\u003e
2019-04-19 Sergey Noskov Dubrovitsa, village (Khoiniki volost)
We are looking for the Orlovs and Makarevichs who lived in the village of Dubrovitsy until 1905 and their descendants. The Orlovs and Makarevichs left for Siberia in 1905. Descendants live from Sakhalin-Kazakhstan-Novosibirsk-Ural-Germany. We are waiting for news ....\u003e\u003e\u003e
2019-04-17 Taisa Bondarenko Krivin, village (Ruchaevskaya volost)
Good afternoon! My mother was born in 1914 in the village of Krivin, Loevsky district, Gomel region (no longer exists). Father - in 1907 in the village of Ruchaevka, Loevsky district. I am a late child born in 1956 and therefore I hardly knew my grandmothers, grandfathers and other relatives. I would like to study the pedigree with the children. What is the oldest data you have and how can you use it? Thank you ...\u003e\u003e\u003e
After the February Revolution in March 1917, Soviets of Workers' Deputies were formed in Misk and later in other cities. Also there are Councils of Soldiers' Deputies in units Western Front and Councils of Peasants' Deputies.
The Minsk Soviet began in October the formation of the Provisional Military Revolutionary Committee, which in November 1917 was transformed into the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Western Region and Front (Voenrevkomzap) with the aim of uniting all Soviets and creating a single center to coordinate their activities almost simultaneously in Minsk Congresses of Soviets were held: on November 19, 1917, the regional congress of Soviets of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies began its work, on November 18-20, a congress of Soviets of Peasant Deputies took place and on November 20-24, the II Congress of the armies of the Western Front, which was attended by representatives of the Soviets, trade unions and workers organizations of Belarus. As a result of the agreement reached at these congresses, all the councils were united into one council of workers', soldiers' and peasants' deputies of the Western region and the front, and Obliskomzap (Regional Executive Committee of the Western Region and Front) was created.
To centralize the leadership of local Soviets, the All-Russian Conference of Soviets (March 1917) adopted a resolution on the creation of the Western Region, as a temporary unification of provinces with the center in Minsk. This decision was confirmed by the Congress of Soviets of the Minsk, Vilna and Mogilev provinces in September 1917.
The declared boundaries of the Western region (as of November 1917)
The first practical step towards the creation of the Western region was the unification in June 1917 of the Minsk province and the unoccupied districts of the Vilna region (Disna, Vileika and Oshmyany).
Comments to record Administrative-territorial structure of the Belarusian lands. III.1917-IV.1918 Western region disabledAdministrative-territorial structure, with which the Lithuanian-Belarusian provinces Russian Empire came to 1917 was pretty steady. The boundaries of the provinces have not changed since 1842. The number of counties and their borders have been preserved since 1866 (with the exception of the transfer of the Pukovskaya volost from the Igumen district to the Slutsk district in 1890). The military-administrative superstructure in the form of general governorships had already been abolished here - in 1856 the Vitebsk, Mogilev and Smolensk governorships were abolished, and in 1912 - the Vilna, Kovno and Grodno governorships (in contrast to the Warsaw governorship general, which existed until the February Revolution)
Thank you for the material provided by the AUTHOR in LJ
By the beginning of 1917, the Lithuanian-Belarusian provinces had the following composition:
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Rechitsa district - an administrative-territorial unit in the Chernigov governorship (1793-1796) and Minsk province (1796-1919) of the Russian Empire, Gomel province (1919-1926) of the RSFSR. The center is the city of Rechitsa.
Administrative division
In 1926 there were 9 volosts: Braginskaya, Vasilevichskaya, Gorvalskaya, Komarinskaya, Loevskaya, Rechitskaya, Kholmechskaya, Khoinikskaya, Yurevichskaya.
History
The Rechitsa district as part of the Chernigov governorship of the Russian Empire was formed in 1793 after the 2nd partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Earlier, from 1566 to 1793, the Rechitsa Povet existed as part of the Minsk Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
In 1796 the county went to the Minsk province of the Russian Empire. In 1919 he was transferred to the Gomel province of the RSFSR. In December, the Rechitsa district was transferred to the BSSR. On December 8, 1926, the county was renamed into the Rechitsa District.
Population
According to the 1897 census, 221.8 thousand people lived in the district. Including Belarusians - 82.5%; Jews - 12.8%; Ukrainians - 1.7%; Russians - 1.4%; Poles - 1.1%. 9280 people lived in the district town of Rechitsa.
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When Prince Meshchersky left, Prince Andrei took Pierre by the arm and invited him to the room that had been reserved for him. The bed was broken in the room, there were open suitcases and chests. Prince Andrey went up to one of them and took out a box. From the box he took out a bunch of paper. He did everything in silence and very quickly. He got up and cleared his throat. His face was furrowed and his lips pursed.“Forgive me if I'm bothering you…” Pierre understood that Prince Andrey wanted to talk about Natasha, and his broad face expressed regret and sympathy. This expression on Pierre's face angered Prince Andrew; he resolutely, loudly and unpleasantly continued: - I received a refusal from Countess Rostova, and I heard rumors about your brother-in-law seeking her hand, or the like. Is it true?
“And it's true and not true,” Pierre began; but Prince Andrew interrupted him.
“Here are her letters and a portrait,” he said. He took the bundle from the table and handed it to Pierre.
“Give it to the Countess ... if you see her.
“She is very ill,” said Pierre.
- So she's still here? - said Prince Andrew. - And Prince Kuragin? He asked quickly.
- He left a long time ago. She was dying ...
“I am very sorry about her illness,” said Prince Andrey. - He is cold, evil, unpleasant, like his father, grinned.
- But Mr. Kuragin, therefore, did not deserve his hand to Countess Rostov? - said Prince Andrew. He snorted several times.
“He couldn't marry because he was married,” said Pierre.
Prince Andrew laughed unpleasantly, again reminding his father.
- And where is he now, your brother-in-law, may I find out? - he said.
- He went to Peter…. but I don’t know, ”said Pierre.
“Well, it's all the same,” said Prince Andrey. - Tell Countess Rostova that she was and is completely free, and that I wish her all the best.
Pierre picked up a bundle of papers. Prince Andrew, as if remembering whether he needed to say something else or expecting Pierre to say something, looked at him with a fixed gaze.
- Listen, you remember our dispute in Petersburg, - said Pierre, remember about ...
- I remember, - Prince Andrey hastily answered, - I said that the fallen woman must be forgiven, but I did not say that I can forgive. I cant.
- How can you compare it? ... - said Pierre. Prince Andrew interrupted him. He shouted sharply:
- Yes, again to ask her hand, to be generous, and the like? ... Yes, it is very noble, but I am not able to walk sur les brisees de monsieur [to follow in the footsteps of this gentleman]. - If you want to be my friend, do not ever talk to me about this ... about all this. Well, goodbye. So you will convey ...
Pierre went out and went to the old prince and princess Marya.