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Stefan Brykczyński (1847 – May 1934) was one of the members of 19th-century January Uprising in Poland.Today, he is mainly known as an author of his memories from uprising, which were the basis for the para-documentary movie Rok 1863 (Year 1863) released on the 150th anniversary of the uprising.
January Uprising; Part of the Polish-Russian wars: Poland - The Year 1863, by Jan Matejko, 1864, oil on canvas, 156 × 232 cm, National Museum, Kraków. Pictured is the aftermath of the failed January 1863 Uprising. Captives await transportation to Siberia. Russian officers and soldiers supervise a blacksmith placing shackles on a woman .
Nad Niemnem is a Polish historical film that follows the aftermath of the January Uprising.It is about the lives of the families that lived on twenty years later, showing how the return to the classed society divided those families who once had fought as brothers.
The Polish National Government of 1863–64 was an underground Polish supreme authority during the January Uprising, a large scale insurrection during the Russian partition of the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It had a collegial form, resided in Warsaw and was headed by Karol Majewski . It was intended as a ...
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, and Bogumił Niechcic, against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I.The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title.
Szwadron is a Polish historical film directed by Juliusz Machulski. It was released in 1993. [1] The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. [2] [3] The film was based on Rembek's short stories. [4]
The Battle of Grochowiska took place on 18 March 1863 at the village of Grochowiska near Pińczów, Poland during the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire.It involved a 3,000-strong unit of Polish insurgents under the command of Marian Langiewicz which had been cornered by Russian forces numbering around 3,500 soldiers and six artillery pieces.
The Battle of Stok, one of many skirmishes of the January Uprising, took place in the night of May 4/5, 1863, near the village of Stok, which at that time belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland. A Polish insurgent party under Ignacy Mystkowski ambushed here a detachment of the Imperial Russian Army. The battle is regarded as one of the ...