Russification began in Latgale after the Polish led the January Uprising in 1863: this spread to the rest of what is now Latvia by the 1880s.
Rusifikimi filloi ne Latgale pasi polaket drejtuan Kryengritjen e Janarit me 1863: kjo u shpernda ne pjesen tjeter te Letonise nga vitet 1880.