Eugeniusz Niebelski
I am writing this text about the Russians and the Orthodox monument at perhaps an inopportune time, with the war behind the Polish eastern border, when Polish monuments in Russia – including those in Siberia – are being devastated, including the cross on a grave in Mishicha on Lake Baikal, a trace of the Polish uprising in the summer of 1866.
The cross has been sawn at its base, and commemorative plaques (in Polish and Russian) have been chopped up. We can’t help it that this is our tragic Polish-Russian history …
On 20 and 21 October 1863, during the January Uprising, two battles took place in the Sandomierz region against the Tsarist army. There are two monuments devoted to the fallen soldiers…
Eugeniusz Niebelski is a professor emeritus at The John Paul II University of Lublin
The full article in English is coming soon.
The full version in Polish is here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/rybnica-1863-pomnik-rosjan-poleglych-w-powstaniu-styczniowym/





