Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin aikin Rashawa a cikin shekarun 1840, Nicholas I ya hana amfani da yaren Belarusiya a makarantun jama'a, ya yi yaƙi da wallafe-wallafen Belarusiya kuma ya yi ƙoƙarin matsa lamba ga waɗanda suka tuba zuwa Katolika a ƙarƙashin Poles don sake komawa ga bangaskiyar Orthodox. A 1863, matsin tattalin arziki da al'adu ya fashe a cikin tawaye
, wanda Konstanty Kalinowski (wanda aka fi sani da Kastus). Bayan tawayen da ya gaza, gwamnatin Rasha ta sake amfani da Cyrillic zuwa Belarusian a 1864 kuma ba a ba da izinin takardu a cikin Belarusian ba har zuwa 1905.