ITT: Post interesting history related things you recently found out about.
Pic related. Seems like a cool guy.
>>911327
Peter the Great met with the Archbishop of Canterbury when he was in England. The Archbishop was apparently interested in a possible union of the Anglican and Russian Orthodox Church.
Never could have happened, very interesting, though.
>>911327
>30 January 1938 in a nationalist "Wilno Journal", Stanisław Cywiński wrote following sentence in a review of Melchior Wańkowicz's book: "Wańkowicz[...] disproves the words of one cabotine, who claimed that Poland is like a bagel - what's only worth, is on the sides". The cabotine, he was reffering to, was obviosly Józef Piłsudski.
>While the review slipped through censorship, however, an article in Sanation's "Nation & State" newspaper claimed, that Cywiński has insulted the memory of Piłsudski. The asme article was read by the Wilno Inspector of Army, Dąb-Biernacki, who ordered all the officers from 1st Infantry Regiment to find and punish Cywiński for that.
>Cywiński was found in his bed, sick. The officers beat him to unconciousness, which resulted in him losing an eye and also having his ribs broken. All of this was witnessed by his wife and daughter.
>Another group of officers entered "Wilno Journal" 's HQ and proceeded to demolish it. Zwierzyński, editor-in-chief was beaten with a revolver, as well as the janitors, other editors and the landlord.
Zwierzyński and Cywiński was arrested and sentenced to 1,5 and 3 years of prison each. Their lawyers were also put on trial, but outbreak of war ended it prematurely. Cywiński was captured in 1940 by the Soviets and died one year later in Tatarstan.
Otto Skorzeny worked for the Mossad post-war. Didn't know that,
>>911327
His older brother Bronisław was friends with Aleksandr Ulyanov, Vladimir Lenin's older brother. Together they took part in a socialist plot on tsar Alexander III's life.
The plot was discovered, and everyone involved was put on trial. Lenin's brother was sentenced to death and didn't accept a royal pardon when it was offered.
Bronisław in turn was sentenced to exile. He went to Sakhalin where he was one of the first people to research the Ainu, an indigenous minority that lives in Sakhalin and northern Japan. His research was quite innovative in that he used modern technology - he recorded their songs on clay cylinders. After Poland regained independence, he visited Poland, but didn't meet with his brother. His descendants live in Japan to this day.
A small part of the USSR had previously been governed by a US citizen.
Gregory Zhatkovich, an american lawyer and rusyn political activist, was appointed governor of Carpathian Ruthenia in 1920. It was ceded to the Soviet Union after WWII and is now part of Ukraine.
