In Tambov and Kirsanov… The life in exhile of Helena Skirmuntowa, painter and sculptor
Lidia Michalska-Bracha: The story of the life and artistic activity during the deportation to Siberia of Helena Skirmuntowa (Skirmunttowa) (1827-1874), a painter and sculptor from the Pinsk region, creator of the excellent historical chessboard – an artistic vision of the relief of Vienna by John III Sobieski.
Rybnica 1863. Monument to the tsarist ‘fighters’ who died in battles with Czachowski’s insurgents
Eugeniusz Niebelski: On 20 and 21 October 1863, two battles took place in the Sandomierz region against the Tsarist army. There are two monuments devoted to the fallen soldiers…
Doctor Benedykt Dybowski – exiled without the right to practice medicine
Zbigniew J. Wójcik: Relatively late, the tsarist police discovered the involvement of Dr. Benedykt Dybowski, a zoology lecturer at the Main School of Warsaw, in the January Uprising. He was arrested in February 1864. During the investigation at the Warsaw Citadel, he steadfastly refused to “cooperate.” This was enough to sentence him to 12 years of hard labor (hard labor) in Siberia. He had a chance to escape. He remained in solidarity with those sentenced to exile.
Yakutsk and its surroundings – impressions from a winter trip to the Republic of Sakha
Anna Zapalec: Yakutia is a vast region, still naturally wild and geographically surprising, as most of its area is not developed by man.
Stalin’s shooting lists in the soviet state terror system
Jan Raczynski: Although the Great Terror is usually associated with the activities of the ‘NKVD troika’, its prelude was the so-called ‘death lists’.
Pahiatua – where God rest
Urszula Dąbrowska: The resourced attention of people from Poland makes Polish people in New Zealand want to learn about their identity, learn about their ancestors. This is especially important in a multicultural country where history has little meaning.
The Great Famine in Kazakhstan (Asharshylyk): A Forgotten History
Dmitriy Panto: Although the subject of the Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor) is widely known and researched, the history of this tragedy in Kazakhstan has largely gone without mention in Polish historiography.
Tadeusz Hołówko. From Exile in Turkestan to Independent Poland
Bartłomiej Krzysztan: It was a stormy evening, Saturday, August 29, 1931. For almost three weeks, deputy Tadeusz Hołówko had been a patient in Truskawiec, health resort located in Bieszczady mountains known for its mineral springs, which belonged back then to the Lviv province.
Imam Shamil’s “Pole”
Jerzy Rohoziński:
The history of the last years of Imam Shamil, the great chief of the Caucasian highlanders resisting Russian imperialism, has its own “Polish” thread. And it is not a likeable one. It is also not entirely clear to which extend it is “Polish”.