The Golden Writ of 12 April 1863

The organizers of the January Uprising, which broke out in the Russian partition in 1863, tried to win the peasant masses over to the national cause. The Insurgent National Government had drawn conclusions from the people’s insignificant support for the November Uprising and from the tragic Galician Slaughter. In the absence of a regular army,…


Debate Ukraine and the Borders of the West

The Polish History Museum invites you to its YouTube channel to watch a debate entitled Ukraine and the Borders of the West. ‘False history is the mistress of false politics’ claimed the classic of Polish historiography Józef Szujski in the 19th century. History, or rather historiographical myths, also reverberate in Russian justifications for the current…