Moniuszko was born in Ubiel , Minsk Governorate ( in present-day Belarus ) in 1819 to a Polish noble family of landowners from the eastern fringe of the Vilna Governorate of the already partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , its eastern subject , Grand Duchy of Lithuania .
Moniuszko was born in Ubiel ( Minsk district in modern Belarus ) to a Polish-Armenian noble family of landowners .