On October 24, the rulers of Russia, Prussia and Austria signed the terms of the Third Partition of Poland. As a result, the Republic of Poland disappeared from the map of Europe. In this infographic you will find the most important facts about the next stages of our countrys decline.
He was raised heir to the throne and his right to rule was officially confirmed. While his father was still alive, he was given his own district. After the death of his predecessor, he officially took his place. Why then is he not on the list of Polish kings and princes? The victors write histor
Józef Piłsudski himself admitted that women were the most zealous propagators of his name. There are many examples. But this one is really worth knowing. Women associated with the rifle movement and the Legions took on the duties of tireless propagandists from the very first days of the war. The
He was equal to kings, he warmed in the glory of glory, and he put Poland on the path of power. Everyone could feel safe with him. After all:Nobody will hurt us anything, nobody will hurt us when Śmigły-Rydz is with us ... A new book by Michał Ogorek - “100 years. How we have honored leaders in
He fought for the Polish throne for several dozen years. He left behind the legend of an enlightened, well-educated and benevolent king. As it turns out, behind this facade he hid a swaggering ego, and at the cost of the crown he was ready to even divide the Republic of Poland. Stanisław Leszczy
The English and French turned their kings into export goods, books about the virgin queen Elizabeth or the bloody Margot read millions. Our monarchs, dried up in Matejkos paintings, seem boring and provincial, they vegetate in the reserve of school textbooks. Yet the history of Poland is as fascinat
Ambassador Jan Wojciech Piekarski went to Laos in the middle of the civil war. A revolution found him in Iran. During the conflict between the US and Iraq, he conducted spectacular negotiations aimed at the release of an American citizen from an Iraqi prison. Now it reveals the backstage of these ev
It is known that for the Bolsheviks, the revolution was more important than human life. But there is more to their attitude towards this nation than mere contempt. The destruction they had done was driven by sheer hatred. Why were the citizens of this republic prevented from entering the socialist p
Miracle worker? Hypnotist? A sect member? Or maybe an ordinary scammer? One thing is for sure, Rasputin was one of the greatest people in Russian history. Grigory Rasputin was born in the family of a wealthy peasant in the village of Pokrovskoye in the Tobolsk province in Siberia. The date of hi
A president who openly says he cant find his own wife in bed? The head of state who publicly checks his weight with cognac bottles? Over the last 25 years, our politicians and diplomats have proved more than once that Poles have a lazy fantasy. Not only geographic. What is diplomacy? The term it
Human shooting competition, millions of victims of mindless crime, thousands of hands cut off for disobedience. This was the everyday life of the 19th-century Congo. A country where impunity has turned people into monsters. The colonies conquered by Europeans were often characterized by a brutal
My only regret is that I did not kill more Jews. This is how Alois Brunner, a fanatical Nazi, responsible for the deaths of more than 128,000 people, summed up his life. Were there not among the Nazis who repented? And if so, how sincere could the words of the murderers from the tops of the Third Re
Executions carried out on teenage girls. Hundreds of thousands of Poles deported to Siberia and millions of famine victims in Ukraine. These are just some of the murderous achievements of Joseph Stalin. As always, all positions in the TOP7 ranking are based on the articles we publish. This time
Diamonds have fascinated rulers, rich people and, of course, thieves for centuries. The history of many of them is almost a ready-made script for a movie. How did the most beautiful ones get into the hands of the current owners and how much was paid for them? As the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de
Europeans have long believed that there has never been a civilized nation with a skin other than white. And they couldnt have been more wrong. The history of Africa knows empires that were on par with the great European kingdoms. And one of them was a real world power. The Western world learned
Alfred Rosenberg was one of Hitlers closest associates. This staunch anti-Semite and racist laid the ideological foundations of a criminal regime. You can read about his career and how it was possible to recover his journal after many years in the book The Devils Diary, which is an award in our comp
During over a thousand years of history, Rome has fought countless wars. But only single chiefs were able to lead him to the brink of collapse. If they had succeeded, the history of the Roman Empire would have ended hundreds of years earlier. Or maybe even ... the Roman Empire would not have arisen
At the time of its outbreak, no one considered that this war could last longer than a few months. Each side believed in a quick victory. And without thinking much, she got involved in a long-term, devastating conflict. How could you get so wrong? The Great War plunged the world into a bloody whi
In 1918, Poland regained independence. Thanks to the extraordinary effort of a whole generation of Poles and the favorable prosperity, it was defended and preserved. The hundredth anniversary of Polands return to the world map is an excellent opportunity to face the founding myth of contemporary Pol
Fear is a very human feeling, but many consider it a sign of weakness. Political leaders especially want to prove to everyone that fear is a foreign concept to them. Just what if the reality is exactly the opposite? Everything indicates that this is what happened to the father of the Russian revolut
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In public places they stand behind the woman, possibly stout - explained the behavior of the terrestrialists in a 1933 dictionary. And the influential researcher replied:this kind of fetishism (...) is found in a large number of young people, mainly male. Albert Dryjski, a pre-war Warsaw psychia
When in late May 1291, the Mamluks Muslims take the fortress of Acre, it was not only the end of the Christian presence in the vicinity of Jerusalem. But for the Knights Templar, those whose main mission was the protection of pilgrims who came to the holy city, it was the beginning of the end of an
Who were they, how did researchers involved in Stalinism live and work? What did plant seeds sewn into the guts of animals by a geneticist turn into? When did the Kalashnikov machine take on a terrorist flair? Find out from the latest book by Marta and Andrzej Goworski, Scientists from under the red
Convincing Europeans to eat potatoes was not easy. At different times in history, they became both a rescue and a doom for them. What are our first associations with potatoes? French fries, chips? Gamers are probably familiar with the term potato pc. But what do we really know about this vegetable