The project focuses on the social processes of dealing with the post-imperial Russian heritage in Poland. We are investigating how the heritage associated with the times when parts of Poland were under the rule of the Russian Tsarist Empire was protected, silenced, (re)interpreted and (re)used during communist and post-communist times and how the memory of Russian Tsarist past is becoming the subject of contemporary social practices in local communities.
- Warsaw – the capital city and the westernmost metropolis of the Russian empire, which went through modernisation during the Russian rule and where now the Russian heritage is generally silenced;
- Łódź – one of the leading industrial cities during the Tsarist times;
- Białystok – the town which flourished economically during the Russian rule and now is the central place for national commemorations of the deportees to Siberia during Tsarist and Soviet times through the Museum of the Memory of Siberia Deportations;
- Spała – a small village which used to be the favourite Tsarist hunting residence;
- Białowieża – a former Tsarists hunting residence, currently using the images and narrations on Tsarist times to attract tourists from Poland and abroad.
