Germans in a town in Russian Poland holding religious service (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Germans in a town in Russian Poland holding religious service
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Russian Poland
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18305
Call Number: LC-B2- 3367-2
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oaza_spokoju (10 months ago | reply)
Russian Poland..........hm.........interesting....... ....
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artolog (10 months ago | reply)
"From the late 1700s until the end of WWI, Poland did not exist as a country. It was divided among the Russian, German (Prussian), and Austrian Empires. These divisions were known as Partitions.
Russian-Poland
Russia had obtained White Russia and Latvian Lithuania to the Dnieper and Dvina rivers in the First Partition of Poland. In the Second Partition, Russia took most of the western Ukraine, including Podolia and a part of Volhynia, and all of the eastern part of Lithuania, also obtaining the right to move its troops into what remained of Poland and control its foreign policy. Russia acquired the rest of Lithuania and the Ukraine, the remainder of Volhynia, and the Duchy of Courland in the Third Partition.
Warsaw and the surrounding area were under Prussian rule until 1815, when the Congress Kingdom of Poland comes into being under Russian rule. The former provinces of Grodno, Kalicz, Kielce, Lublin, Lodz, Lomza, Plock, Radom, Siedlce, and Suwalki were among those areas annexed by the Russian Government."
Here is a map of "Russian Poland"
www.feefhs.org/maplibrary/russian/re-polan.ht ml
oaza_spokoju (10 months ago | reply)
i know:) i'm Polish:)
the expression "Russian Poland" rises hair on my back:)
Thank You for this explanation.
artolog (10 months ago | reply)
Poland's neighbors used to find its borders very "flexible" until relatively recently, eh?
oaza_spokoju (10 months ago | reply)
it's a country between two big nations: Germans and Russians.
"God's Playgroud" - a book by Norman Davies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Playground
We still consider Bialorus and Ukraine and some of Lithuania as our lands.
They where taken from us after WW II by the USSR and we took some land from Germans.
Borders of Poland where very flexible
oaza_spokoju (10 months ago | reply)
of course, the Belorussians, Ukrainians and Lithuanians think differently and we are not questioning that they have the lands of their own.
artolog (10 months ago | reply)
Poland had Austria-Hungary chewing on it from the south, too. Everybody wanted some Poland!
Mr. Happy Face - Seasons Greetings :) (10 months ago | reply)
Interesting History .... Thanks for Sharing ..
artolog (10 months ago | reply)
This is a slightly cropped version of this Bain photo:
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