God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

52.8 NOTES

58. Cyprian Norwid, 'Wolnosc w Polsce bedzieinna', from 'Piesni spolecznej cztery strony',
    Dziela, ed. T. Pini (Warsaw, 1934), 506-11. The poem ends with the verse:
    For freedom shall be fashioned from goodwill,
    As in a well-versed melody,
    Where the thought romps along with the words
    And the words play at will with the harmony.


59. Ibid.


60. Ibid.


61. On Norwid, see George Gomori, Cyprian Norwid (New York, 1974); Alicja Lisiecka.
    Norwid poeta historii (Veritas, London, 1973); Z. tapinski, Norwid (Cracow, 1971);
    also T. Domaradzki, Le symbolisme et I'universa-lisme de C. K. Norwid (Quebec, 1974).


62. Alfred Jarry, 'Ubu Roi' (1896) in Tout Ubu (Paris, 1962), 12; 'Quant a Paction, qui va
    commencer, elle se passe en Pologne, c'est-a-dire Nulle Part.'


63. Jan Reychman, Zycie polskie w Stambule w XVIII wieku (Warsaw, 1959), Chapter VIII.


64. Stanislaw Mackiewicz (Cat), Historia Polski od 11 listopada do wrzesnia 1939 r
    (London, 1941), 347.

CHAPTER 2. ROSSIYA

1. Since the whole of the Russian Partition eventually became an integral part of the
   Russian Empire, any balanced understanding of the subject requires a knowledge both
   of general Russian History and of Polish affairs. For English-speaking students, the
   standard introductions are: Hugh Seton-Watson, The Russian Empire,
   18o6-1917(Oxford, 1967); and Piotr Wandycz, The Lands of Partitioned Poland,
   1795-1918 (Seattle, 1975).


2. Quoted by N. Riasanovsky, Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825-55
   (Berkeley, 1959), 70 ff.


3. Ibid. 127.


4. Feodor I. Tyutchev, (1803-73), in The Penguin Book of Russian Verse (London, 1967),


5. 
   


6. Pyotr Y. Chaadayev (1793-1856) in his 'Philosophic Letter' (1836). See R. Hare, Pioneers
   of Russian Social Thought (London, 1951).


7. Szymon Tokarzewski, Pamietniki, (Warsaw 1907—9), 2. vols.; (Vol. I, Siedem lat katorgi,
   Vol. H, Ciernistym szlakiem). 1. Waclaw Lednicki, Russia, Poland and the West: essays
   in literary and cultural history (London, 1954), Chapter VI, 'Dostoevsky and Poland'.


8. Quoted by Riasanovsky, op. cit. 219-20.


9. Eve Curie, Madame Curie: the biography by her daughter (London, 1938), 19-21.


10. Karl Baedeker, Russia with Teheran. Port Arthur and Peking: a Handbook for
    Travellers (Leipzig-London, 1914), 9-12.


11. Adam Mickiewicz, 'Do przyjaciol Moskali' (To my Muscovite Friends). See
    W. Lednicki, 'Pushkin, Tyutchev, Mickiewicz and the Decembrists: legends and facts',
    Slavonic and East European Review, xxix, 73 (1951), 375-402.


12. Quoted by A. Bromke, Poland's Politics: Idealism versus Realism (Cambridge, Mass.,
    1967), 26.


13. Adam Mickiewicz, 'Stepy Akermanskie', Dziela poetyckie (Warsaw, 1965), i. 259.


14. Alexander Blok, 'Voz'mediye' (Retribution), Chapter 3, lines 4-13, in Stikhotvoreniya,
    ed. V. Orlov (Leningrad, 1955), 560 ff. See Lednicki, op. cit. Chapter VII, 'Blok's Polish
    poem'.