The Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Polish Roads to Independence

• Autorzy: Wiesław Cabana
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

When there fell a country that used to play a significant role in European policy since the memorable battle of Grunwald (1410) till the victorious battle of Vienna (1683), the state of affairs, as such, must have provoked reflection. The arguments and discussions must have been fierce and, I should add, despite years of research, some issues have not been clarified yet. Nevertheless, I do not lay claim to elaborate on all those problems, which have not been appropriately discussed by Polish historiographers - the length of the present text makes it impossible to do so. It is a fact, however, that we speak relatively little of those who went into exile to St. Petersburg after the partitions. Obviously, not all of them renounced their Polishness, thus taking care only of their private careers.1 That was the conduct of the Polish gentry from the southern Ukraine - they wanted to become a part of the Russian Empire at least since mid-18th century. The core of the Polish intelligentsia who, led by Prince Adam Czartoryski, found themselves by the Neva River had a general idea maybe not of regaining independence but definitely of rescuing Polishness. I shall only mention that Czartoryski imagined Poland consisting of the lands from all the partitions but constituting a part of the Russian Empire on federal principles. We can only speculate to what extent that vision was feasible because it was the time when Europe was immersed in the Napoleonic Wars. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Independence; History

PL

Niepodległość; Historia

• Czasopismo: Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
• Rocznik: 2018
• Numer: Vol. 16, z. 2 History and Memory: the Case of Poland and Korea
• Strony: 105--127

Twórcy

autor

Wiesław Cabana

• Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce

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