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The Beginning of Congress Poland in the Discourse of the French Press
2019 •
Aleksandr Belousov
Belousov M.S., Belousov A.S. The Beginning of Congress Poland in the Discourse of the French Press. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 4, pp.1195–1212. The article focuses on the formation of the Polish-Lithuanian discourse by the French press and its interpretation by Russian intellectuals in 1815–1825. The image of Alexander I and his policy towards Congress Poland obviously underwent a complex transformation. French publicists rejoiced at the decisions of the Congress of Vienna and the declaration of constitution on the affiliated territories. The press articulated a liberator-tsar discourse: Alexander did not defeat Napoleon to become a new Napoleon himself. He only cared about the well-being of his new subjects: due to the Russian Emperor the Poles received long-awaited freedom embodied in the constitution. The French press featured Alexander I not only as a liberator-tsar, but as a ruler guided by a national idea about national interests. Praising its new idol the French press managed to convince Russian and Polish public of their protagonist’s polonophilia. This gave rise to debates among the intellectuals, who mostly thought negatively of Alexander’s intentions. Concerns intensified after his famous Warsaw Speech. However, in 1820, the Emperor’s interest in the Polish-Lithuanian affairs subsided, with the policy towards them becoming more conservative. Eventually, French newspapers reverted to the discourse of an uncivilized eastern neighbor. Thus, the image of a liberator-tsar gave way to that of a cruel despot and usurper eager to subdue European territories. The rhetoric of liberal publicists found some support in the Russian society, but mostly it contributed to the growth of Anti-Polish sentiments. The same dialectic unity and clash of opinions, articulated both due to the French Journalism and contrary to it, is found in the Decembrist milieu.
Siedlce District (1809-1813). As far as the West is from the East..pdf
Andrzej Chojnacki
Plucking the Shamrock of Europe: Lessons from Irish Revolution and Union
Nicholas A Stark
Chopin and visual arts
Chopin among artists and scholars
2019 •
Jerzy Miziołek
When speaking about Fryderyk Chopin (1810- 49), we tend to think of Żelazowa Wola, where he was born, of no. 12 Place Vendôme in Paris, where he spent the last months of his life, or of the church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, the final resting place of his heart. But the place with which Chopin perhaps had the strongest ties was the campus of the University of Warsaw – a complex of buildings located at 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmieście. Chopin lived in one of those buildings for more than ten years (1817-27), and in the years following that, until his departure for Vienna and Paris in 1830, he visited the campus almoust every day as a student of the Main School of Music, and institution that was then an integral part of the University. This book discusses those formative ten years which Chopin spent among professors and students of the University of Warsaw. The young composer witnessed the erection of new University buildings, the opening of the University Museum of Fine Arts and its art exhibitions organised every two years since 1819; through his acquaintance with artists Chopin came to appreciate the visual arts. His friendship with Delacroix, as his visits to the Dresden Gallery, the Paris exhibitions of fine arts (the Salons) and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, described in his letters to his family, all are proof of the love of painting and sculpture that Chopin developed in Warsaw during his University years.
Secrets of the Past
Secrets of the Past Czartoryski-Potocki Palace Th e Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Secrets of the Past
2014 •
Jerzy Miziołek
The book is a kind of monograph of one of the most interesting palaces of Warsaw. It was erected in the first half of the 18th century and partially rebuilt at the beggining of of the 19th century. Its very interesting all'antica interior decoration, made before 1800, was almost completly destroyed during the world war II. Among its owners were princes Lubomirski and Czartoryski as well as, since 1799, Count Stanislas Kostka Potocki the founder of Polish archaeology and art history. The book is based on numerous archival sources and is lavishly illustrated. It records many important events such as the ball with the presence of Napoleon Bonaparte which took place on January 22,1807.
Russia's Role at the Congress of Vienna
Thomas Quinn Marabello
The Congress of Vienna was one of the most significant events in Modern European political history. Rulers and diplomats redrew the boundaries of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. Russia, represented by Tsar Alexander I, would play a significant role as its power was enhanced following the defeat of Napoleon’s army when they invaded Russia in 1812. Russia was a significant player at the congress and helped determine Europe’s new political boundaries. This senior thesis will argue that Tsar Alexander I was not a tyrant who sought to gain from France’s loses. Russia was a growing European power determined to bring order and stability to war torn Europe and help its neighboring nation-states politically and economically.
From Victory to Peace
2021 •
Elise Wirtschafter
Nation without a state: imagining Poland in the nineteenth century
2005 •
Agnieszka Nance
Abstract: This dissertation tests Benedict Anderson's thesis about the coherence of imagined communities by tracing how Galicia, as the heart of a Polish culture in the nineteenth century that would never be an independent nation state, emerged as an historical, cultural ...
John P. LeDonne, Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire
Дмитрий Воронков
Clausewitz and the Polish Rising of 1830-1, draft 10 Nov 2014
David A Pugh
A draft paper that looks at what Clausewitz had to say about the campaign against the Polish uprising in 1830-1. These are just my rough research notes for a possible journal article on the broader topic of Clausewitz, civilians and counter-insurgency.
