Talk:List of Polish rulers
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Elected or Electoral? User:JHK
- Or elective? The kings were elected, the kingship was elective, but to be Electoral would, I fear, make the country truly subject to The Empire That Never Lost A Battle. DP
Helga, thanks for fixing links. --Ed Poor
Polish lands within the Russian Empire
- After the November Uprising the Polish lands were directly incorporated into Russia and their autonomy was restrained. The gubernias of former Kingdom of Poland were informally called "Vistulan Country" (Привислинский Край) and were ruled by the tsars through their local Russian governors. Although Alexander I was the only Russian monarch to be crowned as the King of Poland, all Russian rulers until 1917 used the title.
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| Term | Incumbent | Notes |
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| Vistulan Country (1832–1917), region of the Russian Empire | ||
| 1832 to 1855 | Nicholas I of Russia | Romanov dynasty |
| 1855 to 1881 | Alexander II of Russia | Romanov dynasty |
| 1881 to 1894 | Alexander III of Russia | Romanov dynasty |
| 1894 to 1917 | Nicholas II of Russia | Romanov dynasty |
Cautious 23:22, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have a lot of problems with this text. It contains at least 2 errors. Alexander was not the only crowned Polish King (Do you recall coronation plot? Plotters were to assasinate the Tsar Nicholas during his coronation in Warsaw. It must have been in 1825. The second problem was the change of name of the Congress Kingdom. It happenned sometime after 1880! Obviously Congress Kingdom was not directly incorporated into Russia. Polish Civil Code was in place, Polish language was used untill 1870? and of course Russia was not a modern country, so there were nothing to incorporate to. Russia was set of differently ruled gubernias, each with separate law and traditions. It was about to change after 1905. Moreover, if we list Tsars, why we are not Austrian Emperors? Galicia was much more ruled by Poles under reign of Emperors then Congress Kingdom (in late 1800). If it is because of the title, why we shouldn't add the Tsars to the list of Polish Kings of Congress Kingdom with remark, that later they never were crowned and obviously after dismisall by the nation in 1830 they never had any mandate to be Polish Kings? Cautious 23:30, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)