On August 14, a Polish-Soviet military agreement regulating the formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR was officially signed. Now ten of thousands of men, women and children, who wanted to escape Soviet captivity, could head towards Buzuluk, where the formation of Polish units began.
Arseniusz Lalič – a Croatian by birth, a Pole by heart
He was born on the 14th of February 1875 in the Croatian village of Brlog near the town of Otočac. Arseniusz Lalič, his wife Maria née Brestak and...
Józef Osmołowski – an outstanding expert on Kazakh customsJózef Osmołowski – an outstanding expert in Kazakh customary law
Józef Osmołowski (1820–1881), unlike the entire galaxy of outstanding exiles, made a career in the tsarist administration of his own free will, becoming one of the most outstanding 19th-century ethnographers studying the community of nomadic Kazakhs.
The Contribution of Poles to the Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
One of the most important successes of the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was, undoubtedly, the construction of the great Trans-Siberian Railway.
29.11.1830 – “[…] let your breasts be Thermopylae for your enemies!
On November 29,1830, another Polish struggle for freedom began after the Bar Confederation and Kościuszko Insurrection. Although it lasted almost a year and covered not only the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, but also the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (annexed to Russia), the uprising suffered defeat.







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