Against the background of modern nation-building the article looks at the work of two eminent 19th century historians, the Pole Joachim Lelewel and the Russian Mikhail Pogodin. The text investigates how they tried to shape a modern Slavic Idea by means of historical and political writing.

The paper focuses on history and historicism in the poetry book by Ján Kollár Slávy dcera. It casts light on the historiography of the first half of the nineteenth century and its connection to nationalism, Romanticism and the formation of a modern nation.

The paper presents the relations of Jaroslav Valenta (1930-2004), a prominent Czech researcher of the most recent Polish history, with a number of Polish historians. The picture of these complex relations in the years 1965-1996 has been built up the basis on archival sources.

This article presents the figure and views of Aleksander Gieysztor (1916-1999), one of the most important historians of the twentieth century. The text is based on his own statements (printed and non-printed, especially letters).

This paper discusses Aleksander Gieysztor’s and Gerard Labuda’s research on the problem of ideology and symbolism of power and presents the main directions of their studies in this field.

This paper describes the approach of one of the greatest Polish medievalists, Gerard Labuda, to the question of the Teutonic Order and its role in the history of Poland and the whole Baltic region.