 Belarusian history in the Russian Empire

The Belarusian history within the Russian Empire is associated with the history of Belarus from the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the October Revolution when the present-day Belarus' lands were made part of the Russian Empire.The First Partition of Poland (1772) awarded only some parts of the Belarusian lands, 
northern part of the Polotsk Voivodeship, entire Mstsislaw Voivodeship and Vitebsk Voivodeship, and southeastern part of the Minsk Voivodeship, which became parts of the Pskov and the Mogilev "guberniyas" (governorates).