Various families in Northern Burgundy from Lithuania, Byelorussia and Ukraine

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania used to cover a large territory in Eastern Europe, which included the current countries of Lithuania and Byelorussia, from 1240 to 1795, and an increasing part of the current country of Ukraine, from 1353 to 1569. Nobody migrated from the Grand Duchy to Northern Burgundy, in France, before the French Revolution in 1789. The migration started after the total partition in 1795, between Austria, Prussia and Russia, of the Commonwealth of the Two Nations that had united the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the Kingdom of Poland since 1569. The first people from what used to be the Grand Duchy of Lithuania came to Northern Burgundy as prisoners of war, who had fought the French from 1792 to 1815 in the Austrian, Prussian and Russian armies. The second wave of migrants from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania were people who had rebelled against Russia in 1830, amongst whom Konstantinas Parčevskis, born in Lithuania, and Maurycy Mochnacki, born in Western Ukraine, who both died in my native town of Auxerre. The third wave of migrants came to Northern Burgundy for economic reasons, mostly between 1918 and 1939. Some of those migrants founded a family in Northern Burgundy.