Русифициране на градското пространство. Варшава и провинциалните градове на кралство Полша през ХІХ и началото на ХХ в.
Russification of the Urban Space. Warsaw and the Provincial Cities of the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: From the late nineteenth century together with the rise of modern nationalism, a widely spread belief is that there is a natural antagonism between the nations, which also affects the field of culture. This seems particularly clear in the territories inhabited by people of ethnic groups that are not dominant and constitute the centralized European powers such as unified Germany and Russia. The article presents some aspects of the Russia‘s cultural policy towards Polish lands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Part of this policy is the construction of monumental objects with civilian or religious purpose in the Polish cities, whose architecture hints at Russian traditions and their functions are considered a symbol of foreign domination.

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