LOT#30565. Marriage Certificate, Hill 1913. Paid by stamp duty stamps: 3 pcs. x 20 kopecks; 1 PC. x 10 kopecks; 1 PC. x 5 kopecks.
Kholm Governorate or Chełm Governorate (Russian: Õîëìñêàÿ Ãóáåðíèÿ Kholmskaya Guberniya, Polish: gubernia chełmska) was an administrative unit (governorate) of the Russian Empire. Its capital was in Chełm (Russian and Ukrainian: Õîëì Kholm).
It was created from eastern parts of Siedlce Governorate and Lublin Governorate in 1912. It was separated from the Privislinsky Krai and joined to Kiev General Governorate as "core Russian territory", as a precaution in case Privislinsky Krai territories should be taken from the Russian Empire in an upcoming war. Another reason for this administrative change was to facilitate Russification and conversion of the non-Eastern Orthodox Christians.
According to Russian statistical sources in 1914, while the area of the governorate was 10 460 km2, it was inhabited by approximately 912,000 inhabitants of whom about 50.1% were Ukrainians, 30.5% Poles, 15.8% Jews.
