Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A cikin aikin Rashawa a cikin 1840s, 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 koma Katolika a ƙarƙashin Poles don sake komawa addinin Orthodox. A 1863, matsin tattalin arziki da al'adu ya fashe a cikin wani
tawaye, wanda Konstanty Kalinowski ya jagoranci (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.