Сибирская полония в первой половине XIX века: Особенности формирования и развития

The Russian and Polish historical sciences focus closely on studying the ways that the Polish diaspora emerged and evolved outside its traditional places of residence. Polish communities actively formed as the government had implemented its punitive policies since the late 13 th century. One of the areas settled by many natives of Poland was Siberia. While historiography traditionally devotes much attention to the study of the Polish community in the second half of the 19th century, there are few works dealing with the community’s early beginnings in various Siberian provinces. As a result the article basing on a variety of archival data has achieved the goal of defining essential features found in the Siberia Polish diaspora in the pre-reform period before the 1850s ‘Great Reforms’.