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The January Uprising: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge of the January Uprising, its key figures, events, and historical context with this engaging quiz.

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1 Large numbers of men and women were sent to the interior of Russia and to ________, Urals and other sections.

2 ________, Memoirs of a Revolutionist & Co., 1899, pp.

3 ________, Polish playwright and father of Joseph Conrad.

4 After a series of patriotic riots, the Russian ________ of Tsar Alexander II, General Karl Lambert, introduced martial law in Poland on 14 October 1861.

5 [1] Whole villages and towns were burned down; all activities were suspended and the ________ was ruined by confiscation and exorbitant taxes.

6 Chopin had left Warsaw and Poland forever shortly before the outbreak of the ________.

7 Inspired with ideas of ________, Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakunin and others peasants and students started organizing manifestations.

8 In Guy de Maupassant's novel Pierre et Jean, the protagonist Pierre has a friend, an old Polish chemist that is said to come to ________ after the bloody events in his motherland.

9 Saint ________, born Joseph Kalinowski in Lithuania, resigned as a Captain from the Russian Army to become Minister of War for the Polish insurgents.

10 It began January 22, 1863, and lasted until the last ________ were captured in 1865.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising.
  • one of the founders of modern Russian psychiatry, Pavel Jacobi, brother of the painter Valery Jacobi, participated in the January Uprising in Poland and volunteered in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi.
  • the Alvensleben Convention allowed Russian troops to cross the Prussian border in pursuit of Polish revolutionaries of the 1863 January Uprising.
  • Jan Czerski (pictured), exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society.
  • Józef Mianowski, a 19th-century Polish academic and personal physician of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, falsified university records to give alibis to Polish insurgents in 1860s.
  • Polish novelist Bolesław Prus, who had been a young soldier in the Polish 1863–65 Uprising, wrote a short story, "Fading Voices", whose protagonist had served in the 1830–31 Uprising.
  • rabbi Dow Ber Meisels of Kraków and Warsaw was a prominent supporter of Polish independence, including both the November (artist's impression pictured) and January Uprisings.
  • Polish painter Jan Matejko smuggled arms to Polish insurgents during the January Uprising in 1863.
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