Culture.pl tries to find Poland in the maps of cartographers and satirists who were suddenly dealing with a missing country that never truly went away. In 1795, the last of a series of partitions ...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a Christmas present for the Poles—partition. To a House of ... her western frontier to the Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East ...

Poland, as the memorable phrase (from some ten years later) from Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi goes, was Nowhere, having been divided between the three partitioning powers some 90 years earlier. Travelling ...

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 ...