Mstislaw Voivodeship or Mścisław Voivodeship ( Belarusian : Амсьціслаўскае ваяводзтва , romanized : Amścisławskaje vajavodztva ; Polish : Województwo Mścisławskie ; Latin : Palatinatus Mscislaviensis ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ), since the 15th century until the Partitions of Poland in 1795.
5-671: Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of the Mscislaw Voivodeship: “Mscislaw (Mscislavia), which lies at the Wiechra river, was probably founded in the late 13th century, and named after Duke of Smolensk , Mstislav Romanovich the Old . In the 14th century, it was captured by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , and for a while remained
10-457: A fief (...) By 1538, the Duchy of Mscislaw was already governed by a starosta , who during the reign of King Zygmunt August was renamed into a voivode , while the Duchy was turned into a voivodeship . First Voivode of Mscislaw was Jerzy Oscik, Traby coat of arms . The Voivodeship of Mscislaw was not divided into counties (see powiat ). Its sejmiks took place at Mscislaw, where two deputies to
15-628: The Sejm were elected, and two to the Lithuanian Tribunal (...) It ceased to exist in 1772, when after the first partition of Poland , Mscislaw Voivodeship was annexed by the Russian Empire ". Voivodeship Governor ( Wojewoda ) seat: 54°01′05″N 31°43′32″E / 54.018155°N 31.725593°E / 54.018155; 31.725593 Zygmunt Gloger Zygmunt Gloger (3 November 1845 – 16 August 1910)
20-640: The foreign Partitions , and corresponded with many European scholars. Founder of Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze (the Sightseeing Society, precursor of modern PTTK ), in his will Gloger gave his impressive collection to that organization as well as to the Towarzystwo Ethnograficzne (the Ethnographic Society), Towarzystwo Bibliotek Publicznych w Warszawie (Public Libraries Society) and Museum of Industry and Agriculture. His life's work
25-573: Was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the Wilczekosy coat of arms . Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popular Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society ( PTTK ). He was a son of engineer Jan Gloger [ pl ] and Michalina née Wojno. Under the professional influence of historians and geographers Julian Bartoszewicz as well as Józef Ignacy Krasicki , and later Wincenty Pol and Oskar Kolberg , Gloger voyaged through Poland and Lithuania under
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