Talk:Congress Poland

message: 'In 1863 the January Uprising started. The constitution was abolished and the political entity was directly incorporated into the Russian Empire - later even the name was changed into official name of "Vistula Country" (Russian Privislinskiy Kray).'
I've got an encyclopaedia printed in the Imperial Russia in 1909. According to it, the Constitution of 1815 was abolished in 1830, and the official name of Poland was not changed. The name 'Vistula Country' was popular among more nationalistic Russians then. Mapple 07:18, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Objection

message: Instead of revert warring, please provide a reference for or against the disputed sentence (below).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Respect of law 

message: Is "puppet state" really the right term here? I mean Congress Poland was generally accepted as part of the Russian empire, just with extended autonomy. Maybe it should be called "autonomous area" or something of that sort instead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.92.233 (talk • contribs) 20:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Puppet state

message: Interesting article's from pl wiki about CP government: :pl:Rada Stanu Królestwa Polskiego, :pl:Rada administracyjna and :pl:Konstytucja Królestwa Polskiego. Done: Namestniks of Kingdom of Poland.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  23:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, done, and done.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  12:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: To do

message: The article itself says that it was abolished after 1863. So why does the infobox say -1915? My sources also say that it was renamed to "Privislinskii krai," so is there any indication that the name remained except as a geographical expression (principally outside of Russia)?--James Honan-Hallock 01:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Vistulan Country for more details on this issue. The country was not officially abolished, but in practice, most of the autonomy and self-governance was taken away.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  12:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abolished after January Uprising? 

message: I came here from the article on Galicia which has on the discussion page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Galicia_%28Central_Europe%29) the following comment: "Many of the inhabitants of Southern Poland are proud to be Galicians (as opposed to "those barbaric Congressmen")."  Is this a 'real' enough phenomenon to be mentioned or discussed in this article? Richardson mcphillips1 (talk) 03:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  derogatory use of 'congressmen'? 

message: I moved all the pictures and templates to the top of the page just under the infobox - for me it removes the large amount of whitespace created by placing the titles at the beginnings of sections (which pushes the actual text to below the infobox).  Don't know what it does on other browsers, so please adjust further if someone has a perfect solution.  WLU (talk) 12:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved pictures 

message: I tried to clean up the language in the article and ended up re-writing most of the page.  I think I only changed the wording and added citation templates, but it could definitely use a good once-over by someone more familiar with Polish history than I.  WLU (talk) 14:37, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-write 

message: As was noted above, there is much confusion over the issue of how to distinguish the Congress Poland from the Vistula land/Privislinsky Krai. As far as I know, the Congress Poland was never officially abolished. Yes, there were many major internal changes, and the post-1867 Congress Poland was indeed quite different - but arguing that it was replaced in 1867 by a new entity, Privislinsky Krai, is dubious. If one is going to make such an argument, please provide proper sources per WP:V. Also, please note that :pl:Królestwo Kongresowe doesn't acknowledge the Vistula land as a state-level successor.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  02:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: To centralize the discussion, please direct any replies to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poland#Privislinsky_Krai.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  00:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Succession by the Vistula land/Privislinsky Krai

message: a  Sources agree that after the fall of the January Uprising in 1864, the autonomy of Congress Poland was drastically reduced. They are however contradictory on whether Kingdom of Poland, colloquially known as Congress Poland, as a state, was officially replaced by the Vistula land, a province of the Russian Empire, as many sources still use the term Congress Poland for the post-1864 period. The sources are also unclear as to when did the Congress Poland (or Vistula land) officially end; some arguing it ended when the German and Austro-Hungarian occupying authorities assumed control; others, that it ended with the creation of the Regency Kingdom of Poland in 1915; finally, some argue that it occurred only with the creation of the independent Second Polish Republic in 1918. Examples:
* Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographical and Spatial Organization, p. 539,  
**  Mimo wprowadzenia oficjalnej nazwy Kraj Przywiślański terminy Królestwo Polskie, Królestwo Kongresowe lub w skrócie Kongresówka były nadal używane, zarówno w języku potocznym jak i w niektórych publikacjach.
**  Despite the official name Kraj Przywiślański terms such as, Kingdom of Poland, Congress Poland, or in short Kongresówka were still in use, both in everyday language and in some publications.
* POWSTANIE STYCZNIOWE, Encyklopedia Interia:
**  po upadku powstania zlikwidowano ostatnie elementy autonomii Królestwa Pol. (łącznie z nazwą), przekształcając je w "Kraj Przywiślański";
**  after the fall of the uprising last elements of autonomy of the Kingdom of Poland (including the name) were abolished, transforming it into the "Vistula land;"
* Królestwo Polskie. Encyclopedia WIEM: 
**  "Królestwo Polskie po powstaniu styczniowym: Nazwę Królestwa Polskiego zastąpiła, w urzędowej terminologii, nazwa Kraj Przywiślański." [...] "Po rewolucji 1905-1907 w Królestwie Polskim ..." [...] "W latach 1914-1916 Królestwo Polskie stało się...".
**  "Kingdom of Poland after the January Uprising: the name Kingdom of Poland was replaced, in official documents, by the name of Vistula land." However the same article also states: "After the revolution 1905-1907 in the Kingdom of Poland" and "In the years 1914-1916 the Kingdom of Poland became...".
* Królestwo Polskie, Królestwo Kongresowe, Encyklopedia PWN: 
**  1915–18 pod okupacją niem. i austro-węgierską; K.P. przestało istnieć po powstaniu II RP (XI 1918).
**  [Congress Poland was] under German and Austro-Hungarian occupation from 1915 to 1918; it was finally abolished after the creation of the Second Polish Republic in November 1918
Ajh1492 (talk) 00:53, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Why was the note removed from text? I am restoring it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:47, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: I think that this sentence is not like a natural sentence in logic. Is "the creation of the Kingdom"'s meaning Vienna Congress? Thanks in advance  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 藏骨集团 (talk • contribs) 11:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The creation of the Kingdom created a partition of Polish lands in which the state was divided and ruled between Russia, Austria and Prussia.

message: I was reeding through collection of legal acts of Russian Empire ( http://civil.consultant.ru/reprint/books/172/1.html), and one of the basic laws of 1892 uses term "Kingdom of Poland", not "Vistula Krai". So the statement about complete abolition of Kingdom of Poland seems to be untrue. Is it possible that terms "Vistula Krai" and "Kingdom of Poland" were used simultaneously? Budgie1988 28 january 2011 (UTC)
:It is, we would need to look at more sources to see what the scholars write on that. I am going to restore a note we had on that in the article that seems to have been removed without any explanation a while ago. PS. I moved your post to the bottom as on Wikipedia we use bottomposting. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:46, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: One could nominally use Kingdom of Poland during the entire time period or Vistula Krai during the latter period. My objection is any use of  Congress Poland which was never the name. Leave Congress Poland as a redirect and explain it's use in the article lead paragraph, but not as the article name. Ajh1492 (talk) 20:15, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a point suited more for a dedicated WP:RM, I'd think. I'd have to think more on it, certainly, before I'd have an opinion. Note that pl wiki article is at :pl:Królestwo Kongresowe (although the lead goes: "Królestwo Polskie (potocznie Królestwo Kongresowe, Kongresówka" - Kingdom of Poland, colloquially Congress Poland). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  20:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: About Vistula Krai

message: Failed for WPPOLAND due to insufficient inline citations (quickfail criteria). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: B-class review

message: Although it is clear that Polish autonomy mostly ceased in 1831 and, quite officially, all residues of it were cut in 1867 (with the Tsar dropping "King of Poland" from his title, renaming of the country to "Vistula province", etc.), I wonder whether it can be said, as the article does, that it was entirely from the onset (which would mean including the years up to 1831) nothing more than a province of Russia.--2001:A61:21CC:C701:D19D:1F37:A9C6:40B8 (talk) 14:57, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence I am referring to is: Thus from the start[!], Polish autonomy remained little more than fiction.--2001:A61:21CC:C701:D19D:1F37:A9C6:40B8 (talk) 14:59, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest reading the reference for this sentence: Agnieszka Barbara Nance, Nation without a State: Imagining Poland in the Nineteenth Century, Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, pp. 169-188. It purports to support it, so checking with the source would be the first step. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:52, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: The Duchy of Warsaw was given the Code Napoléon as civil code (Kodeks Napoleona Ksiestwa Warszawskiego), which was enforced from May 1808.
This code was kept in the Kingdom of Poland as the "Civil code of the Kingdom of Poland" (Kodex Cywilny Królestwa Polskiego). 
It was reformed in 1825. In the new text, the article 9 said what were the conditions necessary to be "a Pole subject of the Kingdom of Poland" (Uważanym jest za Polaka poddanego Królestwa Polskiego : [there are 8 alineas]). The texte of this Code can be found at the Polish Library of Paris (I don't know where in Great-Britain)
It was never replaced (although the tsars had wishes about that) and went on up to 1918, and even later, because the civil law in the Republic of Poland was not immediately unified.
So that Maria Sklodowska (born in 1867 in Warsaw) was by the law "a Pole subject of the Kingdom of Poland".
--Jcqrcd44 (talk) 10:08, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the "Civil code of the Kingdom of Poland" (Kodex Cywilny Królestwa  Polskiego) 

message: "Congress Poland or Russian Poland"
This is not ok. 
The formula "Russian Poland" should be used for the parts of Poland annexed by the Russian Empire, notably during the partitions of Poland (if we remain strict on the meaning of "Poland", we can say that Bialystok was in "Russian Poland"). The territory of Congress Poland had been annexed by Prussia or Austria, before Napoleon created the Duchy of Warsaw, the origin of Congress Poland. 
Formally, the Kingdom of Poland has never been annexed by the Russians ; as I wrote in the intervention just above, the "Civil Code of the Kingdom of Poland" (official denomination) remained in force up to 1918 (and even after that, up to the unification of civil law in the Republic of Poland). The inhabitants were not "Russian subjects", but "Poles, subjects of the Kingdom of Poland" (article 9, Civil Code of the Kingdom of Poland, as reformed in 1825).
Even the date "1915" is not formally relevant : it is only a situation of occupation which begins then.
The big problem is the excessive importance of truisms when most people think or write about Polish history of the XIX° century ("in Poland, that's to say nowhere", Alfred Jarry, Ubu roi).
--Jcqrcd44 (talk) 19:17, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Citing Jarry's Ubu roi is not a good example at all with placing forward an argument. Instead, published sources by historians should be used. Whilst Russian Poland is a very generic term that can be misunderstood and misinterpreted, Congress Poland is very much widespread and, with time, became official in English. Moreover, the Civil Code of the Kingdom of Poland didn't do much to deter the Tsarist government from forcibly 'annexing' Poland after the January Uprising and degrading its status as a separate entity. Just a reminder that it wasn't a country only a polity. Oliszydlowski (talk) 11:27, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The formula "Russian Poland" is not relevant for Congress Poland 

message: File:Герб Польский. 1832.gif|Coat of arms 1832 
File:Герб Польский. 1857 (2).jpg|Coat of arms 1857 
File:Герб царства Польского.gif|Coat of arms 1882 
The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Poland as part of Russia was most highly approved on August 20 , 1832 by Emperor Nicholas I: "In the scarlet shield is a white, one-headed eagle with a golden beak and claws, scarlet eyes and tongue, crowned with a golden, royal crown."
On December 8, 1856, the titular coat of arms of the Tsar of Poland (for the Great Coat of Arms of the Empire) was approved: The traditional Polish shield was crowned with the "crown of the Kingdom of Poland". Ongoingday (talk) 03:47, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Coats of arms... I'll ping User:Marcelus, they may be interested in this? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:22, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted due to quality, not the content itself. However, the current CoA does not match ones found on flags and banners in the same infobox. Can this somehow be fixed? Merangs (talk) 22:39, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coat of arms 

message: Could women own property in 1815-1831? Could Women own property in 1831-1863?
In the Russian Empire, they could. But I can not find any sources for Congress Poland  — Preceding unsigned comment added by VetMax (talk • contribs) 21:41, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Woman rights in Congress Poland