The direct vozdystvіya of Poland on the Lithuanian state did not completely disappear into the everyday life of the West Russian regions that were part of it. The strong class color of the entire political and legal life of these regions - the result of vozdystvіya on them of the old, Polish-German culture, to this day affects, among other things, the typical features of the external and internal structure of Western Russian cities and villages, sharply different from the cities and villages of eastern Rossіi.