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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | After the fall of Napoleon, the Czar Alexander, in the Congress of Vienna, claimed the grand duchy for himself. |
 | | This despotism growing still worse after the death of Alexander I, when Nicholas I succeeded him upon the Russian throne, provoked, on 29 November, 1830, an insurrection in Congress Poland, which was put down, however, by the overwhelming military force of Russia (end of October, 1831). |
 | | Thereupon the Czar Nicholas abolished the Diet and the Polish army, and assigned the government of Poland to Russia, whose administration was characterized by harsh persecution of the Catholic faith and the Polish nationality. |
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