Belarusian society

Belarusian society is a group of intelligentsia and officials, as well as representatives of the prosperous part of the Belarusian peasants , who were guided by an alliance with the tsarist government in order to redeem the lands of Polish landowners with it. It existed in the 1908-first half of the 1910s. It arose in Vilnius on the basis of the “Peasant” society. The activity of the company was headed by the board (10 people); Chairman - Solonevich, from August 1911 - Koronkevich. The print media are the newspapers Belorusskaya Zhizn , Northwest Life , Belorussky Vestnik.

The "society" was oriented toward Western Russia, its main task was "the development of self-awareness in the Belarusian nationality on the basis of Russian statehood." Belarusian society received subsidies from the government administrative-bureaucratic apparatus, maintained contacts with the right-wing deputies of the 3rd State Duma. Tried to provoke repression against the newspaper Nasha Niva. Supported the Stolypin agrarian reform . At the congress of representatives of the village of the North-Western Territory (end of 1908 - beginning of 1909, Vilnius), convened by the Company together with deputies of the Duma, he insisted on a more intensive hutorization in the Vilna and Grodno provinces.

During the discussion in 1909-1910 of the bill on the introduction of Zemstvos in the western provinces, the society sought to unite the entire Russian (Belarusian) Orthodox population with the Russian landlords to fight against Polish dominance. Before the outbreak of World War I, society was dissolved and left the political arena.