The coat of arms of the Congress…

The coat of arms of the Congress Kingdom of Poland had been abandoned, the Polish language had been banned from office and education and the process of incorporation of the Polish gubernias and Russification of its administration had been completed after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863.

The 1867 reform is designed to tie the Congress Kingdom (now de facto the Vistulan Country) more tightly to the administration structure of the Russian Empire, its government reorganized into a combined civil and military administration headed by a Russian governor general and completely staffed by Russian bureaucrats.

It divides larger governorates into smaller ones.

A new lower level entity, gmina, is introduced.

The existing five governorates are restructured into ten, with five on the right bank of Vistula Land and five on the left.