Volhynian Vice-royalty (russian: Волынское наместничество) was an administrative-territorial division of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, created at the end of 1795 after the

third Partition of Poland The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polis ...

from the territory of the Izyaslav Viceroyalty and Wołyń Voivodeship. Partitions of Poland

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