The portrayal of Polish-Russian relations in the Moisey Ostrogorsky’s textbooks

The goal of this article is to show how the history of Polish-Russian relations was presented in textbooks on the national history of the Russian Empire written by Moisey Ostrogorsky (1854-1921). To this end, a textual analysis was carried out.

Sinking of the Battleship “Pietropawłowsk” and the Figure of Vice Admiral Stepan Makarov in the Pages of “Kurier Warszawski” in April 1904

The author focuses on one of the finest Russian admirals of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries – Stepan Osipovich Makarov. The text is split into three parts, presenting several topics discussed in “Kurier Warszawski”, based on historical contents. The Polish press presents, for example, biography of the fallen Russian, and short reports of church devotions dedicated to him. Also included are simultaneously interesting and frightening descriptions of his reactions on losing his family. Another element of the work are his messages concerning the battle between Russian and Japanese fleets and the tragic death of the Russian admiral. The data on the casualties of the officers are the same as historiography presents. In case of navy, the number of the fallen differs from the number presented by Olender and Dyskant. Technical parameters of the sunken Russian ship match the observations made by researchers, although the moment of sinking differs from the findings made by this field’s professionals in the following decades.

The external and internal geopolitical prerequisites of revolt of 1916

In is article the authors consider geopolitical situation which developed at the time of revolt of 1916 in Central Asia, raising questions of collision of political interests of the Russian and British empires.

Moscow and Kiev’s vision of the interpretation of disputes about the past, the continuity of the historical roots of mutual statehood

The attack on the Russian Federation on February 24, 2022, in Ukraine, which was not the result of the functions of a superpower, treated by a member state. In any other device there is a reference to the historical past. This is in fact common in its origins but interpreted differently by both countries for 31 years. Starting from the vision of Russia promoted since the 16th century as the successor to the Byzantine Empire, Putin’s Russian Federation claims the right to create one empire corresponding to all the former lands of the Russian Empire. Not subject to legal protection and Ukrainian nationality. No official war is available to achieve this goal.