Question: Petras Cvirka (March 12, 1909 – May 2, 1947, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian author of several novels, children's books, and short story collections, born at Klangai, in where, that is also known as Government of Kauna , was a governorate ("guberniya") of the Russian Empire?

Context articles: Governorate (Russia)
Vilna Governorate
Novgorod Governorate
Vologda Governorate
Poltava Governorate
Kherson Governorate
Petras Cvirka
Kovno Governorate
Archangelgorod Governorate
Chernigov Governorate

A governorate, or a guberniya (Russian: губе́рния ; ] ; also romanized gubernia, guberniia, gubernya ), was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR.
 The term is usually translated as "government", "governorate", or "province".
 A governorate was ruled by a governor (губернатор , "gubernator"), a word borrowed from Latin "gubernator" , in turn from Greek "kybernetes" .
 Sometimes the term "guberniya" was informally used to refer to the office of a governor.
The Vilna Governorate (1795–1915; also known as Lithuania-Vilnius Governorate from 1801 until 1840; Russian: Виленская губерния, "Vilenskaya guberniya" , Lithuanian: "Vilniaus gubernija" , Polish: "gubernia wileńska" ) or Government of Vilnius was a governorate ("guberniya ") of the Russian Empire created after the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.
 It was part of the Lithuanian General Governorate, which was called the Vilnius General Governorate after 1830, and was attached to the Northwestern Krai.
 The seat was in Vilnius (Vilna in Russian), where the Governors General resided.
Novgorod Governorate (Russian: Новгоро́дская губе́рния , "Novgorodskaya guberniya", Government of Novgorod), was an administrative division (a "guberniya") of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1727 to 1776 and from 1796 to 1927.
 Its administrative center was in the city of Novgorod.
 The governorate was located in the northwest of the Russian Empire.
Vologda Governorate (Russian: Вологодская губерния , "Vologodskaya guberniya", "Government of Vologda") was an administrative division (a "guberniya") of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929.
 Its administrative center was in the city of Vologda.
 The governorate was located in the north of Russian Empire.
The Poltava Governorate (Russian: Полтавская губернiя ; translit.
: "Poltavskaya guberniya", ) or Government of Poltava was a guberniya in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian Empire, which was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Malorossiya Governorate which was split between the Chernigov Governorate and Poltava Governorate with an administrative center of Poltava.
The Kherson Governorate (1802–1922) (Russian: Херсонская губерния , translit.
: "Khersonskaya guberniya"; Ukrainian: Херсонська губернія , translit.
: "Khersons`ka huberniya") or Government of Kherson was a guberniya, or administrative territorial unit, between the Dnieper and Dniester Rivers, of the Russian Empire.
 It was one of three governorates created in 1802 when the Novorossiya guberniya was abolished.
 It was known as the Nikolayev Governorate until 1803, when Kherson replaced Nikolayev as the governorate's capital.
Petras Cvirka (March 12, 1909, Klangai, Kovno Governorate – May 2, 1947, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian author of several novels, children's books, and short story collections.
 He wrote under a variety of "noms de plume": A. Cvingelis, Cezaris Petrėnas, J. K. Pavilionis, K. Cvirka, Kanapeikus, Kazys Gerutis, Klangis, Klangis Petras, Klangių Petras, L. P. Cvirka, Laumakys, P. Cvinglis, P. Cvirka-Rymantas, P. Gelmė, P. Veliuoniškis, Petras Serapinas, and S. Laumakys.
 His works have been translated into Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, English, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, and Uzbek.
Kovno Governorate (Russian: Ковенская губеpния or "Kovenskaja gubernija"; Lithuanian: "Kauno gubernija" ) or Government of Kaunas was a governorate ("guberniya") of the Russian Empire.
 Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian).
 It was formed on 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Governorate, and the order was carried out on 1 July 1843.
 The Tsarist government had once considered it a part of Northwestern Krai.
 The governorate included almost the entire Lithuanian region of Žemaitija and the northern part of Aukštaitija.
Archangelgorod Governorate (Russian: Архангелогородская губерния , "Arkhangelogorodskaya guberniya"), or the Government of Archangelgorod, was an administrative division (a "guberniya") of the Tsardom of Russia and then the Russian Empire, which existed from 1708 until 1780.
 Its seat was in Archangel (modern Arkhangelsk).
 The governorate was located in the north of Russian Empire and bordered Siberia Governorate in the east, Kazan Governorate in the southeast, Moscow and Ingermanland Governorates in the southwest, Sweden (later independent Finland) in the west, and Norway in north-west.
 In the north, the governorate was limited by the White and Barents Seas.
The Chernigov Governorate (Russian: Черниговская губерния ; translit.
: "Chernigovskaya guberniya"), also known as the Government of Chernigov, was a guberniya in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian Empire, which was officially created in 1802 from the Malorossiya Governorate with an administrative centre of Chernihiv.
 The Little Russian Governorate was transformed into the General Government of Little Russia and consisted of Chernigov Governorate, Poltava Governorate, and later Kharkov Governorate.