Ziemie Zabrane w angielskojęzycznej prasie związanej ze stronnictwem księcia Adama Jerzego Czartoryskiego w początkach emigracji
“The Taken Lands” in English-language press related to the political camp of prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski at the begining of exile

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on three English-language press titles published in the early 1830s in GreatBritain by Polish emigrants and British supporters of the Polish case related to the political campof Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. These are: “The Hull Polish Record,” “The Polish Exile,” and“Polonia or Monthly Reports of Polish Affairs”. The main aim of the article is to recreate the imageof the so-called “Ziemie Zabrane” (The Taken Lands) – i.e. the former Polish provinces incorporateddirectly into the Russian Empire after 1795. These were the lands of today’s Lithuania, part ofLatvia, all of Belarus and the right-bank of Ukraine. The authors of the several articles devoted tothis issue presented – in their writings – the history of these lands from the Middle Ages, their fateduring the partitions until the November Uprising, the course of which in Lithuania and Ukrainewas described in more detail. There were also reports of repressions that fell upon the inhabitantsof these lands after the defeat of the uprising. On the pages of the surveyed press one can also findreports on the state of the economy of these lands, trade and water routes; biographies of famouspeople born in these areas and many descriptions of their tourist and sightseeing values. In each ofthese cases, the authors of the texts tried to emphasize the ties between these lands and their inhabitantswith the rest of the Polish territory and convince the potential readers that they constitute itsintegral part, which should be included in it in the event of the reconstruction of the independentPolish state.

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