01:510:381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Organic Work, Russian Empire
28 Mar 2017
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Prelude to book setting : russian empire tightly controls/cracks down on poland and declared martial law in warsaw (1861) due to gentry calls for independence . Note: manor house idea is very important in the novel! Church"s were also spaces for patriotic organizations would gather (so. Russian soldiers would enter churches to arrest them) people will remember this uprising very distinctly 30 years later (important) Plot 2nd half: two leading figures of the polish resistance come to the manor but they have to leave since the russians show up. Olbromski does not get away and is killed: salomea"s father, brynichc, returns and leaves, her uncle/aunt return (owners of the manor) the rudeshki"s, salomea + josef fall in love. Lady odrowaz returns and convinces josef to leave for italy. Olbramski: big commander/responsible for strategy of entire uprising/resistance leader, salomea asks why this is all happening/the uprising p. 99-101 .
