The statement was made on the 160th anniversary of the beginning of the uprising of part of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire.

The uprising of 1863 in Belarusian lands was led by Kastus Kalinovsky.

Muraviev suppressed the Polish uprising of 1831, but he gained the greatest fame as the governor-general of Horaden, Minsk and Vilnius in 1863-1865, when he was involved in the suppression and elimination of the consequences of the uprising against Russian rule in the so-called North-Western region of the Russian Empire.

When suppressing protests, he widely practiced public executions, as a result of which he received the nickname "The Hangman".

128 people were put to death during the administration of the North-West Murouev region, and more than eight thousand were sent into exile.

The territory of the Kaliningrad region, bordering Lithuania and Poland, belonged to Prussia in 1863.

  • During the times of the Russian Empire, the monument to Muravyov was opened in 1898 in Vilnius.

    The monument stood until 1915, when during the First World War Vilnius was taken by German troops.

    According to one of the versions, he was evacuated, according to another - he remained in the city and the Polish authorities built public toilets near him.

  • In 2021, in Belarus, the historian

    Yury Shautsou

    advocated the creation of a monument to the Vilnius governor-general.

    "Murowiev is a symbol of another Polishness, which rejected the twisted principles of the statehood of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and turned to the East.

    This other Polishness was and is.

    And she has more rights to memory than the one who apologizes for corruption and absurdity, like Kalinovsky, Kapernitsky, Krysinsky and other riot leaders," Shautsov claimed.

  • Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Anton Alikhanov has been subject to American sanctions, and has also become a participant in the controversy with the authorities of Poland and Lithuania.

    In particular, he said that he is ready to supply building materials for the construction of a wall on the border with Russia in Poland.