The novel was smuggled out of the Russian Empire and published in London in 1877 ... that of one Alexander von Ladalinski. Ladalinski is a Polish noble who was once a great Polish patriot (he took ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

As the old saying goes, ‘Great minds think ... set on the British Empire, Poland did not even officially exist. In spite of that, in 1890 The Doll was published – a novel considered to be one of the ...