The gathering will be held on 7 May 2025 at 11 a.m. in the conference area on the first level of the building of Plomba, Public Library of the Capital City of Warsaw, Basketball 26/28.
︎ Without cognition of our past, it is impossible to realize who we are and give meaning to both the present and the future, and to find our own identity. The past events are sometimes akin to those that are now or will occur. Their consideration frequently helps to avoid past mistakes and solve current problems.
︎ We would like to invitation all those willing to meet with Dr. Lech Mażewski, retired prof. of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski University of Administration and Business in Gdynia, historian of law, polytologist and publicist, author of many articles and technological books. Among the most crucial publications of fresh years we can identify monographs: What liberalism? : Gdańsk Liberals 1983-1994 (2024); Poland as a junior partner? : sketches of Polish politics from the election of Stanisław August until the fall of the Polish People's Republic (2022); A systemic political taran : the policy of the NSZZ ‘Solidarity’ and the political changes in the Polish People's Republic from 1980 to 1982 (2017); Failed examination of politics: about the birth, existence and fall of the Polish state in 1806-1874 (2016).
︎ Our Guest will address the problems of functioning of the Kingdom of Poland under the sceptre of Russian Tsars from 1815 to 1831. First its creation, the expectations of Tsar Alexander and Polish elites and the Constitution of 1815. Then comparisons of the Kingdom of Poland with the Grand Duchy of Poznań, the Grand Duchy of Finland, the autonomous Galicia, the Duchy of Warsaw. as public law entities. Further, the issue of the Russian-Polish Real Union, the coronation of Mikołaj I in Warsaw and the situation preceding the November night, the objectives of the Polish-Russian War in the Seym Manifeste of 25 December 1830 and the dethronation of the Romanovs in early 1831, the September Polish-Russian negotiations before and during the siege of Warsaw, yet the fluctuations of Russia at the turn of 1831-1832 as to the further destiny of the Kingdom. The full will culminate in reflections on Polish policy between 1815 and 1831 and lessons for the future.
After the lecture part there will be an chance to ask questions and public discussion.
