 In 1776, the Polotsk Governorate was created after separating from the original Russian lands of the Pskov Governorate.The second partition (1793) added more (the remaining part of Minsk Voivodeship, Bracław Voivodeship and Vilnius Voivodeship and Brest Litovsk Voivodeship).After the third partition virtually all Belarusian lands were within the Russian Empire, and the Belarusian "guberniyas" eventually constituted part of the Northwestern Krai.