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  2. Russification of Poles during the Partitions - Wikipedia

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    The Russification of Poland (Polish: rusyfikacja na ziemiach polskich; Russian: Русификация Польши, romanized: Rusifikacija Poljši) was an intense process, especially under Partitioned Poland, when the Russian state aimed to denationalise Poles via incremental enforcement of language, culture, the arts, the Orthodox religion and Russian practices.

  3. Russian Partition - Wikipedia

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    The first Russian partition took place in the late 17th century when the forced Treaty of Andrusovo signed in 1667 granted Russia the Commonwealth's territory in the Eastern Ukraine. [3] Under the Third Partition of Poland Russia acquired Courland, all Lithuanian territory east of the Nieman River, and the remaining parts of Volhynian Ukraine.

  4. Partitions of Poland - Wikipedia

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    The partition of Poland according to the German–Soviet Pact; division of Polish territories in the years 1939–1941. The term "Fourth Partition of Poland" may refer to any subsequent division of Polish lands, including: after the Napoleonic era, the 1815 division of the Duchy of Warsaw at the Congress of Vienna;

  5. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian territories following ...

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    Following three consecutive partitions of Poland carried out between 1772 and 1795, the sovereign state known as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth disappeared from the map of Europe. In 1918 following the end of World War I , the territories of the former state re-emerged as the states of Poland and Lithuania among others.

  6. Polish-Russian Peace Treaty (1686) - Wikipedia

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    The Polish-Russian Peace Treaty of 1686, officially known as Treaty of Perpetual Peace Russian: Вечный мир, Lithuanian: Amžinoji taika, Polish: Pokój wieczysty but also known in Polish tradition Grzymułtowski Peace, Polish: Pokój Grzymułtowskiego) was concluded between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to finally end the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667).

  7. Kresy - Wikipedia

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    The Pale was established after the Second Partition of Poland and lasted until the Russian Revolution in 1917, when the Russian Empire ceased to exist. In the aftermath of the Polish wars against Ukraine , Lithuania and Soviet Russia , the latter of which was ended by the Treaty of Riga, large parts of the Austrian and Russian partitions became ...

  8. Polish population transfers (1944–1946) - Wikipedia

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    The partitions of Poland, toward the end of the 18th century, resulted in the expulsions of ethnic Poles from their homes in the east for the first time in the history of the nation. Some 80,000 Poles were escorted to Siberia by the Russian imperial army in 1864 in the single largest deportation action undertaken within the Russian Partition ...

  9. Grodno Sejm - Wikipedia

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    The Grodno Sejm, held in autumn 1793 in Grodno, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now Grodno, Belarus) is infamous because its deputies, bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire, passed the act of Second Partition of Poland. The Sejm started on 17 June and ended on 23 November 1793.