Pamiętniki i listy polskich autorów z Ziem Zabranych (Litwa, Białoruś, Ukraina) w XIX stuleciu. Uwagi na marginesie zakończonych dwu projektów Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki – perspektywy badań źródłowych

Abstract

The article presents the characteristics and summary of the results of research conducted in the years 2013–2019 by an international team of historians at Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, as part of two scientific projects under the program of the National Program for the Development of Humanities. Their goal was to catalog and compile the handwritten diaries and letters of Polish authors from the Western Krai in the 19th century, and to conduct research on the image of Polish exiles in Western Siberia in the second half of the 18th and in the 19th century in the eyes of Russians and the Siberian population. Source queries conducted in numerous domestic and foreign archival and library collections (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, France, England) allowed to catalog over 5,000 handwritten and printed diaries and letters of Polish authors from the Western Krai and connected to this area. These studies drew attention to the scale of the problem in terms of the availability of source documentation on the above topics and the possibility of obtaining it, and indicated the need to continue this research, paying particular attention to the source and editorial aspects.