TIMELINE
25.07.2020 – Bernard Ładysz – maestro, patriot
Legendary opera singer died on July 25, 2020.
31.10.1906 – Marian Malinowski – Exile, fugitive, minister
On 31 October 1906 Marian Malinowski set off, as he himself put it, “on a journey into the unknown at government expense.”
6.07.1866 – Polish Uprising beyond Lake Baikal
On the night of 6 to 7 July (24/25 June old style) 1866, 5,000 kilometres east of their homeland, a group of January insurgents sent to Baikal for penal labour stirred up a rebellion, disarmed their guards and tried to forge an escape route to Mongolia.
12.02.1833 – Glass and eye
On 12 February 1833, Aleksander Czekanowski was born in Krzemieniec in Volhynia. He trained as a geologist, but was not given the freedom to pursue his career as he was sent to Siberia at the age of 30 for taking part in the January Uprising.
26.06.1579 – The first exiles of the Polish Republic
The first Siberian fortresses were built by Polish prisoners of war who had been taken captive by Moscow authorities precisely during the war initiated by Stefan Batory.
