The Ukrainian seer Wernyhora, who is credited with prophesizing the partitions and rebirth of Poland, appears in numerous Polish literary works and paintings. The centrepiece of Kraków’s famous Old ...

Agreements with Prussia and Austria led to three partitions of Poland, in 1772, 1793, and 1795, extending Russia's borders well into central Europe. Catherine began as a political and social ...

Born in 1869, Wyspiański was one of the key figures of Young Poland, a modernist movement that emerged in response to the partitions of Poland between Russia, Austria and Prussia, resulting in ...

NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel ...