The Russian Administration of the Kingdom of Poland and the Cracow Visit of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1880

• Authors: Wiech S.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

At the time of the visit paid by Emperor Franz Joseph in Galicia (September 1880) the Russian delegation welcoming the Austrian monarch in the name of Tsar Alexander II was headed by Petr Albiedynski, the governor-general of Warsaw. Numerous facts speak in favour of the assumption that the observations made by Albiedynski during his three-day stay in Cracow convinced him about the necessity of changing the political line which Russia had chosen in relation to the Kingdom of Poland after the defeat of the January Uprising. The Galician example indicated that it was possible to build a strong loyalist camp at the price of certain concessions (the introduction of the Polish language in schools and courts, the alleviation of censorship, the limitation of repressions applied in relation to the Catholic Church and clergy, etc.). The kindling of pro-Russian sympathies within Polish society was to eliminate inner tension and to create a political alternative to the pro-Austrian orientation, growing at the time not only in Galicia but also in the Kingdom itself. The reform plans proposed by Albiedynski, and the ensuing efforts pursued with this target in mind, encountered decisive resistance, especially when the assassination of Alexander II (1881) resulted in the fall of the 'dictatorship of the heart' and the restoration of a reactionary policy.

Keywords

EN

EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH IN GALICIA (1880); KINGDOM OF POLAND; PETR ALBIEDYNSKI

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 47-72
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Wiech S.

• S. Wiech, Akademia Swietokrzyska w Kielcach, Instytut Historii, ul. S. Zeromskiego 5, 25-369 Kielce, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01583471