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3 unusual facts about Vistula Land


Kalisz railway station

In 1906, a line was added to Nowe Skalmierzyce, the border crossing between the Russian-controlled Vistula Land and the German Empire.

Province of Silesia

In the northeast, Upper Silesia bordered on remaining Congress Poland, the Russian partition that was incorporated as Vistula Land by 1867.

Vistula Land

The former Kingdom of Poland continued to use the Polish currency (złoty) and the Administrative Council retained some of its privileges (although it was directly controlled by the Russian governor Field Marshal Ivan Paskevich).


Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland

Built between 1900 to 1903 during Warsaw's later Russian era, the building originally provided the home to the Alexander Suvorov Cadet Corps of the Imperial Russian Army.


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