“On the New, and in Its Deepest Essence, the Old Principles of the Relationship between the Poles and the Empire”. On the Text and Subtext of Ekaterina Boltunova’s Book

Abstract

The article reviews a book by Russian scholar Ekaterina Boltunova on the Warsaw coronation of Tsar Nicholas I as King of Poland in 1829 and the memory of the wars between Russia and Poland from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, published in Moscow in 2022 by the Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye Publishers in the Historia Rossica series. The article includes an extensive presentation of the book’s content and a polemic against some of Boltunova’s theses and her attempt to reinterpret Polish-Russian relations in the spirit of neo-imperial ideology.