Ад сталіцы да правінцыі. Вільня ў структуры паняцця Усходніх Крэсаў у польскім гістарычным наратыве
From a Capital to a Province. Th e Place of Wilno in the Concept of the “Eastern Borderlands” of the Polish Historic Narrative

Summary/Abstract: Th e article considers the image and the symbolic status of Wilno as the former capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish historiography and literature of the 19th-20th century. Th e gradual decline of Wilno’s image as the capital is observed – the entioning of the city’s political importance by historians and writers gradually decreases while the city is simultaneously included into the general image of the “Eastern Borderland”. As a result of the romanticism infl uence in the 19th century, Wilno together with the whole “Borderlands becomes a mystical and mysterious land. Th is image still strongly infl uences the understanding of the city’s history and, in broader context, the history of Lithuania and Belarus.

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