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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 .
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. [1]
Maria was born into a patriotic family: her father, Adam, took part in the Polish revolt called the January Uprising and spent years an exile in France where he completed medical studies. In his absence, his family lived a very modest life in L’viv and his daughters – Maria and her younger sister Helena Polaczkówna , took on tutoring ...
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 ...
Konstanty Kalinowski, [a] or Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski (2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1838 – 22 March [O.S. 10 March] 1864), was a Polish writer, [1] journalist, lawyer and revolutionary. He was one of the leaders of the 1863 January Uprising on the lands of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth .
In 1863, started the January Uprising, the conflict fought in the Congress Poland, between Russian Empire, and the rebel forces fighting to reestablish the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. On 22 January 1863, the rebels had formed the Provisional National Government , which on 30 January, had nominated Ludwik Mierosławski to become the ...
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.
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.