ENThe article analyzes the atmosphere of the Belarusian-Lithuanian provinces in the first decade after the 1863-1864 uprising. Life situation is explored in two directions: the specifics of government activities in the region and the reaction of local population reaction to them. The priority is designated to the fight against «Polishness » where the defining features of them was use of the Polish language and the Roman Catholic faith. The author comes to the conclusion that the 1863-1864 uprising was a catalyst in the revitalization of the struggle against the "Polish element" in the Belarusian-Lithuanian provinces, carriers of which, according to the administration of the Russian Empire, were first gentry and the Roman Catholic clergy. On the one hand, it included an intensive phase of measures for the destruction of "Polishness" on the other hand, it was the acquittal argument to start this politics and after its ending. In many ways this policy was transformed from the official level to private.