by Patrycja | Jan 20, 2026 | Profiles
Bronisław Szwarce. Public domain. Bronisław Szwarce secured his place in the history of the January Uprising, even though on 22 January 1863 — the day it commenced — he was languishing in prison, something that would forever rank as a huge personal tragedy for him. He...
by Patrycja | Jan 9, 2026 | Journeys into the Past
Mariusz Kulik Through his actions, Zygmunt Sierakowski put the good of the general public and his homeland above his own. His participation in the January Uprising shows the dramatic fate of many Poles serving in the Russian army at that time. Many of them abandoned...
by Patrycja | Jan 6, 2026 | Journeys into the Past
Sergiusz Leonczyk After the end of the Polish-Bolshevik War, on 18 March 1921, a peace treaty between Poland, Russia and Ukraine was signed in Riga. Among the provisions of this treaty were points concerning the repatriation of the Polish population from Russia,...
by Patrycja | Dec 20, 2025 | Profiles
Bronisław Piłsudski. Public domain. The fate of the politically exiled Bronisław Piłsudski, one-year-older brother of Marshal Józef Piłsudski, was by turns both tragic and remarkable. Condemned to hard labour, he nevertheless left in his wake an extraordinary...
by Patrycja | Dec 15, 2025 | Profiles
Walerian Łukasiński, 1851. Source: polona.pl Forgotten both in life and death, Walerian Łukasiński spent a total of 46 years in tsarist prisons and fortresses, 37 of those in the dungeons of the Shlisselburg Fortress. He was considered by the Russian authorities as...
