Lenkija ar Rusija? Lietuva rusiškajame mentaliniame žemėlapyje
ENThis article is about whether/how in the Russian imperial discourse appears the concept, declaring that Lithuania is not only a possession of the Russian Empire, but also Russian "national territory". This article starts from the way the imperial government changed the name of this region. Then, it deals with the question of what scientific, ideological, and political instruments were used by imperial officials and different experts to support the thesis that this land belongs to Russia. Then this article deals with how Russian imperial geo-imagination influenced the redrawing of administrative boundaries in the western borderlands of the Romanov Empire. The last part of this article focuses on some actions of the imperial government, by which it was sought to change the cultural landscape in this territory. This research showed that the imperial government and its experts in the fields of statistics, ethnography and history in the 19th c. used to find new arguments in support of the Russian rights to the former lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL). On the initiative of Minister of Education Sergei Uvarov from the 1830s began to be expressed systematically the historical rights to the GDL as a Russian state. One can consider the symbolic crucial moment to the begun usage just before the 1830-1831 uprising of the term "the provinces recovered from Poland". Even more strongly the term "Western [Russian] Region" established this trend. Meanwhile, the ethnic composition of this territory as an argument of Russianess of this territory began to be used systematically even later - from the 1860s. Namely from this period we see the recurring efforts of the tsarist officials to "restore" the correct (Russian) names of places. Still later - at the junction of the 19th and 20th c. also the Russification of the cultural landscape intensifies. [...]. [From the publication]
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