Talk:Sejm of Congress Poland

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Did you know... that in one of its last acts, the Sejm of the Congress Poland dethroned Tsar Nicholas I of Russia from his position as the King of Poland?

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Title syntax[edit]

Why is there a "the" in "Sejm of the Congress Poland". Surely it's "Congress Poland", not "the Congress Poland".

Also, having the words "refers to" in the lead sentence is almost always an error of use vs mention. Expressions refer to things. Things don't refer to things. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:29, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suffrage[edit]

The article currently states that "Voting was open to all persons of 21 years or older." If this is true, it would make a rather radical rewrite of Female suffrage necessary. Or was it just men?

Also, even if it was only males, how is that statement compatible with the sentence a bit further down, "about 100,000 people in the Congress Poland population of 2.7 million had the right to vote"? I don't really see how people above 21 years could amount to only 4% of the population. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:34, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A mistake about Constantine[edit]

"Tsar Alexander left the administration to his younger brother, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia, to serve as viceroy" :

Constantine has never been "viceroy" (namiestnik), he was "only" commander in chief of the army of the Kingdom ;

there was an official viceroy : general Jozef Zajaczek, from December 1815 to his death (1826), although he had been a general of the Grande Armée ;

after his death, tsar Nicolaï did not appoint anybody as viceroy ;

the function of viceroy was then performed vicariously by the vice-president of the Rada administracyjna (Walenty Sobolewski, I think), up to the insurrection of November.

All this can be easily checked (just have a look into the encyclopedia Wikipedia !)

Constantine had great importance in the political life of the Kingdom, but not as great as often thought (it is part of the truisms about Poland during the XIX° century). There was the Russian Novosiltsev, but also some Polish statesmen, notably minister Drucki-Lubecki.

--Jcqrcd44 (talk) 11:43, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]