Suchergebnisse

The marriage of Maria née Grocholska and Witold Czartoryski in the light of newly discovered archival sources

The aim of this article was to verify the image of the betrothal and wedding of Maria Cecylia Grocholska and Witold Czartoryski, as well as the repercussions associated with it, in the light of the unknown historiographical archival sources on this subject and by analyzing previously known sources in the context of new facts about the entering into this marriage established on their basis. In the sources describing the circumstances of the marriage of Maria née Grocholska and Witold Czartoryski, I find several repeated events and facts, on the basis of which the chronology of those days is reconstructed. The first is a letter that Ksawera Grocholska sent to Emperor Nicholas I indirectly regarding the arrival of her future son-in-law to Podolia in order to meet her fiancée's immediate family and obtain the blessing of the bride's grandfather, Karol Brzozowski. Another theme is the decision to marry off the daughter to the son of a political criminal, thus condemning her to a life away from her relatives living in the Russian Empire. Next, it is necessary to look at the course of the ceremony to be able to consider whether the controversy surrounding this marriage will be reflected in the ceremony itself and the reception that followed it. Finally, fragments of Ksawera Grocholska's diary and family correspondence discovered in the collections of the State Archives of the Vinnytsia Oblast in Ukraine were analyzed, which allowed to achieve the main goal of the article.

W artykule została opisana spuścizna korespondencyjna hrabiny Ksawery Grocholskiej (1807–1872), polskiej ziemianki, filantropki, artystki amatorki, właścicielki majątku Kniaże w powiecie jampolskim na Podolu. Wspomniane listy dotychczas nie stanowiły przedmiotu badań. Odnalezione listy zostały podzielone na trzy zasadnicze kategorie: rodzinne i prywatne, dotyczące działalności pomocowej oraz urzędowe.

Communities of Memory of the Holodomor in the USA and Canada in the 1950s-80s The main goal of this article is to show how the Ukrainian community in North America, thanks to cultivating the memory of a marginal event from the point of view of American history, managed to appear in the social life of the USA and Canada. Here I use the concept of 'community of memory' to emphasize those Ukrainian communities in the USA and Canada that are of utmost importance in the commemoration of Holodomor. They also managed to retain this event's memory in many other competing memories, dabbling in the memory of their identity as American Ukrainian. Therefore, in the following sections of the article, I will attempt to answer why it was the diaspora that undertook a tremendous effort to commemorate Holodomor's victims and the course of that process for years. Finally, I employ critical analysis of media discourses. Moreover, I will consider the Holodomor generation's role in cultivating that memory and emergence of the 'communities of memory'.