Potocki, Ignacy 205, 206, 208, 213
Potocki, Józef 175
Potocki, Mikołaj 143, 144
Potocki, Stanisław 205, 222, 229, 230
Potocki, Stanisław Rewera 147
Potocki, Stefan 144
Potocki family 119, 160, 181, 200
Poznań 14, 28, 51, 52, 55, 67, 136, 155, 221, 238, 238, 260, 261, 264, 265, 355, 357, 396
Poznań Society of Friends and Learning 229-30, 235
Poznania 237, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 268, 277, 278, 290, 304, 307, 309, 315, 316
PPS (Polish Socialist Party) 284, 285, 286, 287, 288-9, 300, 301, 305, 327, 334-5, 336
Principality of Rus 8
Pripet River 200
Privilege of Cienia (1228) 16
Privilege of Nieszawa (1454) 45
Privy Council (
Protestant Church of Prussia 273, 347
Protestant Union, 1608 115
Protestantism 63-4, 66, 69, 71, 74, 77, 115, 165, 273, 347
Prussia xx, 15, 20, 21, 22-3, 34, 38, 78, 157, 179, 188, 194, 204, 205, 209-10, 211, 213, 215-16, 217, 221, 222, 226, 229, 235, 240, 248, 256, 259-66, 273, 297; Congress Kingdom and 226, 229; Crusades against 21, 23, 38, 39; Ducal 165-6, 167; Franco-Prussian War, 1870 261; Landtag 261; Marienburg 26, 30, 39; partitions of Poland and xix, 194, 195, 196, 212, 216, 259-66; unification of Germany and 261
Przemysł 71, 149
Przemysł II, King of Poland 27
Przypkowski, Samuel 126
Psie Pole, Battle of 12
PSL (Polish People’s Party) 298, 300, 334-5, 391, 394
Pułaski, Józef 193
Pułaski, Kazimierz 193
purges 274, 336, 347, 357-8, 362, 378
PZPR (Polish United Workers’ Party) 335, 375, 382, 384, 386, 389, 392
Quakers 126
Raczkiewicz, President Władysław 319
Raczyński, Edward 229
Radio Free Europe 356, 359
Radio Marya 405
Radom 396
Radziwiłł, Antoni 260
Radziwilłł, Barbara 68-9, 70, 78
Radziwiłł, Janusz 117, 145, 146, 147, 148, 160
Radziwiłł, Karol 171, 173, 191, 193
Radziwiłł, Michał 233
Radziwiłł, Mikołaj Sierotka 74-5
Radziwiłł, Mikołaj, ’the Black’ 79-80, 97, 111, 112
Radziwiłł, Mikołaj, ’the Red’ 79
Radziwiłł family 63, 129, 146, 147, 160, 181, 200
RAF 316, 330
Raków Arian Academy 64, 127, 129
Rakowski, Mieczysław 381, 382-4
Ramorino, General Girolamo 233
Reagan, President Ronald 374, 376, 379
Red Army 295, 305, 323, 326, 327, 328, 331, 333, 334, 344
’Reds’ (1863) 242-3
Reformation 57-77, 82, 104, 106, 110-11, 174
Reichstag 261, 263-4, 297
Rej of Nagłowice, Mikołaj 67-8, 100, 102
religion 4, 5; Act of Union, Orthodox-Catholic 139; Arians
Renaissance 85, 94, 96-7, 98, 170
Reszka, Stanisław 102
Reymont, Władysław 281
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 312
Ribbentrop-Molotov pact (1939) 324, 340, 341, 403
Rifleman’s Unions 289
Rokossovsky, Marshal 336, 357
Roman Empire 1, 4, 6, 14, 85, 94
Romania 312, 315, 386
Romanov, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich 123
Romantic Movement 252-7, 279
Rome 1, 4, 6, 14, 94
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. 325, 326, 327, 330, 331
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 197, 205
Rowecki, General Stefan 325
Royal Castle, Wawel 78, 96, 125, 202, 203, 208, 316
Różewicz, Tadeusz 360
Rügen, island of 12
Russia xviii, xix, 23, 34, 80, 138, 143, 176-7, 179-80, 184, 188, 190, 191, 193, 195, 196, 198, 212, 217, 221, 237, 240, 256; 1794 Polish uprising and 213-16; 1830 uprising and 232-3; 1831 Polish uprising and 232-7, 251, 260; 1848 Polish uprising and 237-8, 250; 1863 Polish uprising and 243-6; Civil War 291-2, 294-5; Confederation of Bar and 193-4; Congress Kingdom and 226, 227-8, 229, 230-1, 241; Convention on Poland (1797) xix; Crimean War 239, 240; Decembrist coup (1825) 230; Halicz, principality of 28, 33; industrial revolution within 271; Jews and 184, 283-4; Kingdom of Poland, Russian 268-75; Moscow, siege of (1618) 129; Napoleon and 221, 222, 224, 225-6; partitions of Poland and xix, 194, 195, 196, 205, 211-13, 217; post-1989 relationship with Poland 399, 400, 403-4; revolution (1905) 287-8; revolution (1917) 291; Russo-Japanese war 287; Tatars and 19-20; Turkey and 204-5, 210, 211; ’Vistula Province’ and 245-6; Vladimir, principality of 28, 33; World War II 316
Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) 329
Russian Social Democratic Party 286
Russo-Japanese war (1904-05) 287
Ruthene boyars 78
Rzewuski, Seweryn 211
Salza, Grand Master Hermann von 22-3
San River 8
Sandomierz 14, 16, 20, 71, 117-18, 121, 129
Sanguszko, Prince Roman 236
Santok 26
Sapieha, Adam Stefan 347
Sapieha, Hetman 168
Sapieha, Jan Piotr 122
Sapieha family 177, 193
Sarbiewski, Maciej Kazimierz 131