Post-partition history of Poland in Stanisław Tarnowski’s historiographic-political reflection

In 1895 Stanisław Tarnowski - a one-man institution in Kraków at the time: a highly esteemed professor of history of literature at the Jagiellonian University; an author of numerous historical and critical works; and a prominent representative of the Wawel town's "rulers of hearts and minds", group of conciliatory conservatives called Stańczycy - published a book Nasze dzieje w ostatnich stu latach [Our History of the Last Hundred Years], later reissued twice, in 1896 and 1901 (the third edition appeared under a slightly modified title Nasze dzieje w XIX wieku [Our History in the 19th Century]). Stanisław Tarnowski's critics alleged, and not without reason, that "he was just a politician, both at the [university] department, and in the [Galician] Diet, and the [State] School Council and in the books themselves". Therefore, it is worth asking about the vision of the postpartition history that this leading ideologue of Stańczycy group drew. Such was the aim of the author in this text.