Ethnic minority in Russia
Ethnic group
There are currently more than 47,000 ethnic
Poles
living in the
Russian Federation
. This includes native Poles as well as those forcibly deported during and after
World War II
. When including all of the countries of the
former Soviet Union
, the total number of Poles is estimated at up to 3 million.
History
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1652, Smolensk Boyars from Polish-Lithuanian Commonweath
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Zainsk, Kazan governate, was originally a fort occupied by Chelny strelsty, archers and servicemen, and 81 Polish Cossask prisoners from Smolensk area after the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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1654, Polotsk Gentry from Polish-Lithuanian Commonweath
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In 1654 the Poles were taken from Polotsk, 141 people from the Polish small gentry were evacuated to Tiinsk together with the Cossacks, who, before that, "universal servants of Polish kings carried serfdom". Another party of the Polish gentry was settled in the settlement of Old Kuvak [Старой Куваке] and Old Pismyanka [Старой Письмянке] of the future Bugulma district [Бугульминского уезда], Kazan governate. They became part of the Simbirsk Line. Polish gentry until 1830 were considered available soldiers for conscription or draft.
1768 ? The Bar Confederation and the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Polish students in Russian exile
Many Poles
were exiled to Siberia
, starting with the 18th-century opponents of the
Russian Empire
's increasing influence in the
Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth
(most notably the members of the
Bar Confederation
).
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Tsarist Russia until 1917
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Christmas Eve in Siberia
by
Jacek Malczewski
(1892)
Speakers of Polish in the
Russian Empire
by region according to the
1897 Imperial Russian census
After the change in Russian
penal law
in 1847, exile and penal labor (
katorga
) became common penalties to the participants of national uprisings within the Russian Empire. This led to increasing number of
Poles
being sent to Siberia for katorga, they were known as
Sybiraks
. Some of them remained there, forming a Polish minority in Siberia. Most of them came from the participants and supporters of the 19th century
November Uprising
and
January Uprising
,
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the participants of the
1905?1907 unrest
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to the hundreds of thousands of people deported in the
Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939
.
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Originally, 148 Polish exiles were stationed in the Orenburg province, but by the beginning of June 1864, 278 people had been sent to the Orenburg governate to take up residence under the supervision of the police, and by mid-1865, 506 people. In addition, 831 people were identified for establishment on the state lands of the Orenburg and Chelyabinsk districts, of which 754 people were allocated to Ufa.
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There were about 20,000 Poles living in Siberia around the 1860s.
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An unsuccessful
uprising of Polish political exiles in Siberia
broke out in 1866.
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In the late 19th century there was also a limited number of Polish voluntary settlers, attracted by the economic development of the region.
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Polish migrants and exiles, many of whom were forbidden to move away from the region even after finishing serving their sentence, formed a vibrant
Polish minority
there.
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Hundreds of Poles took part in the construction of the
Trans-Siberian Railway
.
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Notable Polish scholars studied in Siberia, among them
Aleksander Czekanowski
,
Jan Czerski
,
Benedykt Dybowski
,
Wiktor Godlewski
,
Sergiusz Jastrzebski
,
Edward Piekarski
,
Bronisław Piłsudski
,
Wacław Sieroszewski
,
Mikołaj Witkowski
and others.
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In the Soviet Union
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The
Polish church
in
Steindamm
was demolished by the Soviet administration in
Kaliningrad
in 1950.
Millions of Poles lived within the
Russian Empire
as the
Russian Revolution of 1917
started followed by the
Russian Civil War
. While some Poles associated with the communist movement, the majority of the Polish population saw cooperation with Bolshevik forces as betrayal and treachery of Polish national interests.
[6]
Marian Lutosławski
and his brother
Jozef
, the father of the Polish composer
Witold Lutosławski
, were murdered in Moscow in 1918 as "counter-revolutionaries".
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
lived through the
Russian Revolution
in
St. Petersburg
, which had a profound effect on his works, many of which displayed themes of the horrors of social revolution. Famous revolutionaries with Polish origins include
Konstantin Rokossovsky
,
Julian Marchlewski
,
Karol ?wierczewski
and
Felix Dzerzhinsky
, founder of the
Cheka
secret police which would later turn into the
NKVD
. However, according to their ideology they did not identify as Poles or with Poland, and members of the communist party viewed themselves as Soviet citizens without any national sentiments. The Soviet Union also organized Polish units in the
Red Army
and a Polish Communist government-in-exile.
In modern Russia
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There were 73,000
Polish
nationals living in
Russia
according to the
2002 Russian census
.
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This includes autochthonous Poles as well as those forcibly deported during and after
World War II
; the total number of Poles in what was the former
Soviet Union
is estimated at up to 3 million.
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The number of Polish people in Russia was 47,125 in 2010.
Gallery
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- Former and current Polish churches in European Russia
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Holy Trinity Church,
Sebezh
(1648)
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- Former and current Polish churches in Siberia
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Polish church, Vershina
Notable people of Polish-Russian descent
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Painter
Kazimir Malevich
was a prominent Polish-Russian artist.
- Aleksandr Verzhbilovich
, classical cellist
- Wladyslaw Grzegorz Branicki
, senator and general
- Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
, statesman, diplomat and author. Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire (1804?1806)
- Alexander Rzewuski
, general.
- Sofya Kovalevskaya
, mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.
- Dmitri Shostakovich
,
composer
and
pianist
.
- Catherine I of Russia
, Empress of Russia
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
, Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory.
- Nikolay Raevsky
, Russian general and statesman who achieved fame for his feats of arms during the
Napoleonic Wars
.
- Sigizmund Levanevsky
, Soviet pioneer of long-range flight who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for his role in the SS Chelyuskin rescue.
- Jan Nagorski
, engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to perform a loop with a flying boat.
- Stanisław Kosior
, First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, deputy prime minister of the USSR and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
- Felix Dzerzhinsky
, Bolshevik and
Director of Cheka
- Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Bolshevik
revolutionary, a
Soviet
statesman
and
Party
official who served as chairman of the
OGPU
from 1926 to 1934.
- Jozef Unszlicht
, Bolshevik revolutionary activist, one of the founders of the Cheka and Soviet government official.
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
, Soviet Scientist? revolutionary and a state figure as well as a geographer and writer.
- Mathilde Kschessinska
, ballerina and lover of
Nicholas II of Russia
- Nikolai Lobachevsky
, mathematician and geometer
- Kazimir Malevich
, painter
- Robert Rozhdestvensky
, Soviet-Russian poet and Songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s?1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw.
- Nikolay Lossky
, Russian Empire philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epistemology, personalism, libertarianism, ethics and axiology (value theory).
- Vaslav Nijinsky
, ballet dancer
- Nikolay Przhevalsky
, geographer
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
,
Marshal of the Soviet Union
and
Marshal of Poland
- Fyodor Stravinsky
, bass opera singer and actor
- Igor Stravinsky
, composer and pianist
- Dmitri Torbinski
, footballer
- Mikhail Brin, father of
Russian-American
inventor
Sergey Brin
- Yanina Zhejmo
, Soviet actress
- Aleksander Waszkiewicz
? Soviet military officer
- Aniela Krzywo?
, the only woman in history who was not a citizen of the Soviet Union to be awarded the USSR's highest honor for bravery, the title
Hero of the Soviet Union
.
- Vikenty Veresaev
(birth name Smidovich) ? writer
- Vatsalv Vorovsky
(Wacław Worowski) ? revolutionary, one of the first Soviet diplomats and head of the state publishing house
- Mechislav Kozlovsky
? communist diplomat and lawyer
- Yury Olesha
? writer
- Tomasz D?bal
? communist politician
- Karol ?wierczewski
? general, commander of the
Polish Second Army
during the fighting for western Poland and the
Battle of Berlin
- Stanislav Poplavsky
(Stanisław Popławski) ? general, commander of the
Polish First Army
during the breakthrough of the
Pommernstellung
(Pomerania Wall) fortification line, securing the Baltic Sea coast, crossing the Odra and Elbe rivers and the battle of Berlin
- Andrey Vyshinsky
(Andriej or Andrzej Wyszy?ski) ? Prosecutor General of the USSR (1934?1939), the legal mastermind of
Joseph Stalin
's
Great Purge
- Arseny Tarkovsky
(Tarkowski) ? poet and translator (with a father of Polish descent)
- Andrei Tarkovsky
(Tarkowski) ? film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (with a paternal grandfather of Polish descent)
- Dmitri Shostakovich
(Szostakowicz) ? composer (with a paternal grandfather of Polish descent)
- Rostislav Plyatt
? actor (of mixed Polish-Ukrainian descent)
- Mstislav Rostropovich
? cellist and conductor
- Edvard Radzinsky
? playwright, TV personality
- Edita Piekha
(Edyta Piecha) ? singer, born in France, moved to USSR
- Anatoly Sobchak
? mayor of Saint Petersburg (mixed Russian-Ukrainian-Polish-
Czech
descent)
- Sergey Yastrzhembsky
(Jastrz?bski) ? Russian politician, President Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesperson on the
Second Chechen War
, head of the Kremlin’s Information Policy Department, co-ordinating Putin administration's external communications.
- Konstantin Petrzhak
? physicist
- Vladislav Strzhelchik
? Soviet and Russian actor.
- Osip Kozlovsky
? composer
- Vatslav Dvorzhetsky
? Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).
- Anatoly Kubatsky
? Soviet stage and film actor.
- Mikhail Vrubel
? Painter
- Skarzhinsky, Nikolai Georgievich - Russian Major General (1849?1910).
- Tatyana Shmyga
- operetta/musical theatre performer
- Skarzhinsky, Vasily Anastasievich - Russian Major General
- Skarzhinsky, Pyotr Mikhailovich - Major General, Cavalier of the Order of St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree and the Order of St. George of the 4th degree. Commander of the Astrakhan Cossack Regiment. He participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 and the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1791
- Skarzhinsky, Nikolai Petrovich - lieutenant of the Izmailovo regiment, mortally wounded at Kulm (August 17, 1813), his name is listed on the wall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
- Skarzhinsky, Nikolai Vladimirovich (1910?1990) Soviet serviceman, who served in the Soviet 327th anti-tank battalion of the 253rd Rifle Division, was awarded the Order "For Courage" and the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree during the Great Patriotic War.
See also
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References
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