Congress Poland
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Królestwo Polskie (Polish) Царство Польское (Russian) Tsarstvo Polskoye |
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Motto Z nami Bóg! "God is with us!" |
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Anthem Pieśń narodowa za pomyślność króla "National Song to the King's Well-being" |
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 Map of Congress Poland, circa 1815, following the Congress of Vienna. The Russian Empire is shown in light green.
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| Capital | Warsaw | |||||||||
| Languages | Polish, Russian | |||||||||
| Religion | ||||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy | |||||||||
| Tsar (King) | ||||||||||
| • | 1815–1825 | Alexander I | ||||||||
| • | 1825–1855 | Nicholas I | ||||||||
| • | 1855–1881 | Alexander II | ||||||||
| • | 1881–1894 | Alexander III | ||||||||
| • | 1894–1915 | Nicholas II | ||||||||
| Namiestnik | ||||||||||
| • | 1815–1826 | Józef Zajączek (first) | ||||||||
| • | 1914–1915 | Pavel Yengalychev (last) | ||||||||
| Legislature | Sejm | |||||||||
| • | Upper house | Senate | ||||||||
| • | Lower house | Chamber of Deputies | ||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | Established | 9 June 1815 | ||||||||
| • | Constitution adopted | 27 November 1815 | ||||||||
| • | November Uprising | 29 November 1830 | ||||||||
| • | January Uprising | 23 January 1863 | ||||||||
| • | Collapsed | 1867 or 1915 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1815 | 128,500 km² (49,614 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1815 est. | 3,200,000 | ||||||||
| Density | 24.9 /km² (64.5 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| • | 1897 est. | 9,402,253 | ||||||||
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The Kingdom of Poland, informally known as Congress Poland or Russian Poland, was created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a sovereign state of the Russian part of Poland connected by personal union with the Russian Empire under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland until 1832. Then, it was gradually politically integrated into Russia over the course of the 19th century, made an official part of the Russian Empire in 1867, and finally replaced during the Great War by the Central Powers in 1915 with the theoretically existing Regency Kingdom of Poland.
Though officially the Kingdom of Poland was a state with considerable political autonomy guaranteed by a liberal constitution, its rulers, the Russian Emperors, generally disregarded any restrictions on their power. Thus effectively it was little more than a puppet state of the Russian Empire. The autonomy was severely curtailed following uprisings in 1830–31 and 1863, as the country became governed by namestniks, and later divided into guberniya (provinces). Thus from the start, Polish autonomy remained little more than fiction.
The territory of the Kingdom of Poland roughly corresponds to the Kalisz Region and the Lublin, Łódź, Masovian, Podlaskie and Holy Cross Voivodeships of Poland.
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