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Vershina was founded in 1910 by Polish voluntary settlers from Lesser Poland. There are three main periods in Vershina's history, with different social conditions affecting the language choice. During its first three decades the settlers preserved Polish language (a mixture of dialects from their regions of origin), traditions and the Roman Catholic religion. The effects of the Revolution of 1917 and political changes came to a village in taiga only in the late 1930's. Vershina lost its former ethnocultural homogeneity because of Russian and Buryat workers in the local kolkhoz. It was the beginning of the increasing role of Russian language in the village's life. The process of intensive sovietization as well as heterogeneous marriages affected language choice in many domains. In the late 1980's the inhabitants of Vershina regained their minority rights: they can pray in their own church, learn Polish in a local school and found cultural organisations. However, during the years of communism, the language situation changed irreversibly. There are some factors which may hinder the increasing domination of Russian language, such as activity of local Polish organisation, Roman Catholic parish and folk group 'Jazhumbek' but their influence is limited.
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Artykuł ukazuje znaczenie pamiętników Rufina Piotrowskiego w budowaniu emigracyjnej świadomości II poł. XIX w. na temat prześladowań i zsyłek Polaków na Sybir. Na podstawie relacji prasowych oraz kolejnych wydań pamiętników próbowano odtworzyć atmosferę zainteresowania, podniecenia, a nawet skandalu politycznego, do jakiego przyczynił się ich autor, publikując swoje wspomnienia. Z drugiej strony przeanalizowana została rola informacyjno-edukacyjna wspomnień, a samego autora próbowano przedstawić jako nauczyciela nie tylko wychodźczej młodzieży, ale w pewnym sensie – całej Wielkiej Emigracji. Ukazano znaczenie jego pamiętników w tworzeniu polskiej świadomości narodowej i budowaniu postaw patriotycznych w drugim pokoleniu emigrantów – uczniów szkoły polskiej w Paryżu, w większości urodzonych we Francji. Ich autor, wieloletni profesor słynnej Szkoły Batignolskiej był jednym z największych autorytetów dla uczących się tam uczniów. Jego wspomnienia wywierały na nich wyjątkowy wpływ: począwszy od budowania mesjanistycznego obrazu zniewolonej Polski, aż do podejmowania ostatecznych decyzji o walce z bronią w ręku za jej wolność.
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The article presents the importance of the memories of Rufin Piotrowski, a Polish immigrant after the insurrection of November 1830 who escaped from Siberia in 1846, in the process of building an emigrant’s consciousness about Siberian reality. Based on the written accounts (in the form of articles) and the successively edited French and Polishmemoirs of R. Piotrowski, the article tries to recreate the climate of interest, excitation, and even the political rumours surrounding the affairs occurring in the second part of nineteenth century. The article also analyses the educational and informational role of souvenirs from Siberia in the process of building the Polish national identity among the second generation of immigrants. For them Piotrowski was regarded as a heroic teacher who deserved followers. He not only had great influence over immigrant youth, but he was also an authority for the whole Polish emigration. The impact that the articles and books written by Piotrowski have had on the formation of the Polish identity and patriotism have been so far underestimated.
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