EN
The publication contains a selection of letters from 1895–1910 of the Rakusa-Suszczewski gentry family living in what is now a border area between south-eastern Belarus and northern Ukraine. The letters provide an insight into the life of Polish Borderlands elites living in the Russian Empire at the turn of the 20th century, especially into such elements of their social history as everyday life and customs. The author of the introduction briefly presents his own experiences of several journeys to the land of his ancestors in the last decade of the 20th and first decade of the 21st century.