Was there any significant cultural shift in Russian Empire caused by the...
Wikipedia article on Tsardom of Russia claims that acquisition of Wild Fields and Kiev Academy caused an influx of intellectuals in Russia, which in turn kick-started later reforms by Peter The Great...
View ArticleWhy did China decide to support Poland in 1956, but not Hungary?
In 1956, the fate of the Eastern Block was pretty uncertain: The Khrushchev Thaw was causing the satellite countries to rethink their place in the world, as de-Stalinization was bringing the promise of...
View ArticleDid the German authorities respell Polish personal names to be more German...
How were Polish names handled by Prussian and German authorities during the times of the German empire? It is well known there was intense Germanisation throughout the area, for example all location...
View ArticleWhen and why did the given name Dariusz get popular in Poland?
I recently realized that Dariusz is a) a reasonably popular given name in Poland, and b) sounds a lot like the modern Iranian name Daryush, which is derived from the name of Darius, one of the most...
View ArticleWhy did peasant serfdom last longer in Eastern Europe than in Western?
My concern is for the early-modern period, roughly 16th to 19th centuries. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia seem to provide the best known examples of long-lasting serfdom.The article on...
View ArticleHave Germany and Poland ever signed a peace treaty after WWII?
I met a shocking (for me) information, that Germany and Poland have not signed a peace treaty after the World War II.Because I could not believe this, I performed some research.In the Potsdam...
View ArticleWhat was the conspiratorial name of Roman Stanislaw Dmowski?
What name did Roman Stanislaw Dmowski before he returned to Warsaw in 1905?in Autumn 1905 after the proclamation of the constitution in Russia, he [returned] to Warsaw, where he could live under his...
View ArticleDid Mussolini know that Hitler was going to attack Poland?
Did Hitler inform Mussolini of his decision to attack Poland in advance? Was Mussolini in favour?
View ArticleWho got a pardon from Gabriel Narutowicz?
In December 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz was president of Poland and were killed 16th of December. Just after 5 days of being president of country he got assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski.I found that...
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Help with identifying my great-grandfather's pre-WWI Cossack uniform
My great-grandfahter was a Cossack from "Then Russia""Now Belarus" where the Belarus, Ukraine and Poland borders met, but I don't now which "type" like Don or Kuban etc. He fled from the place he lived...
View ArticleWhen did Wiktoria Narutowicz die?
Is it possible to find when Wiktoria ze Szczepkowskich, mother of Gabriel Narutowicz (his Wiki-page) died?I found rodovid.org but there is no date of death.I also checked in Gabriel Narutowicz...
View ArticleHow significant was the literary loss due to WWII?
From the Wikipedia list of libraries damaged during World War II, I learnt that millions of books stored in libraries were lost from bombings and intentional destruction by the Nazis, especially in...
View ArticleDo we know the names of the German soldiers entombed at Babie Doły?
The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper ran the following story on the 18th of June 1951Warsaw, Poland - (U.P.) - A 32 year-old German Soldier who said he hadbeen buried alive for six years in a Nazi...
View ArticleDid the Ottomans conquer Poland-Lithuania?
Türk Tarihi | History of Turks claims that the Ottomans took Poland-Lithuania as a vassal in the late 1570s. Where did they get this from? I searched everywhere but I couldn't find anything.
View ArticleOf which countries was Ludwig von Mises a citizen?
This is a question regarding the economist and political thinker Ludwig von Mises.A short biography: Mises was born in 1881 in Lviv, then part of Austria–Hungary. He studied and worked in Vienna from...
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What can I learn from this man's uniform?
This is my Polish Great Grandfather - I'm trying to create his story by looking at his uniform. Imperial Russian Uniform? Lithuanian cross? Help!Photo taken in Saint Petersburg, RussiaHe was born in...
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How could Stutthof's inmates reach Palmnicken?
There's a Palmnicken Massacre section in Polish article about Stutthof concentration camp (not available in English version). It says (translation mine):The female prisoners of the sub-camps were...
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Where in Poland and when in 1986 did stuntman Ian B. Jamieson perform?
I've these 3 old pictures of mine:So my question is:Where and when stuntman did Ian Bruce Jamieson perform in Poland?Some known details:The pictures are from around 1986 taken in Szczecin, Poland. On...
View ArticleWhy would this word have been an unsuitable name in Communist Poland? Is it...
In Marek Hłasko's The Graveyard (set in communist-occupied Poland) there is a scene where, in a political party meeting one of the party members (Nowak) is forced to change the name of his dog. This...
View ArticleWhat was Poland's posture during the Seven Years' War?
Poland seems like the "invisible" party during the Seven Years' War Ostensibly, it was fought between France, Austria, and Russia on one side, and Prussia, plus Great Britain-Hannover on the other.Yet...
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