REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE REASONS OF THE APPEARANCE OF POLES IN THE SIBERIA OF THE XIX CENTURY ON THE PAGES OF THE "RUSSIAN ARCHIVE" MAGAZINE
The history of the political exile of the Poles to Siberia has been well studied in domestic and foreign historiography. This is due to the availability of a wide range of sources, which detail its various aspects. The appeal of modern researchers to the study of the Russian journal press of the XIX – early XX centuries, in particular the magazine «Russian Archive», allows us to consider the journalistic discourse of the problem. Studying the materials of the historical and literary journal allows us to deepen our understanding of the reasons for the exile of the Poles to Siberia, the representation of which was interconnected with the ideological orientation of the publication. The relevance of the study is due to the informative value of the materials of the magazine «Russian Archive» on the study of various aspects of political exile to Siberia, the publication on its pages of a wide range of historical sources. Despite the fact that for the first time in the center of attention of Russian society, the «Polish issue» was after the end of the Napoleonic wars and the inclusion of the Kingdom of Poland in the Russian Empire, due to censorship conditions in the 1830s – early 1850s, it fell out of the active polemic. However, in the conditions of liberalization of the regime from the second half of the 1850s, the situation has changed, and the opportunities for expressing public positions have expanded. This affected the presentation of Polish themes in the magazine «Russian Archive». The analysis of the journal’s materials allows us to reveal the ideas about the reasons for the appearance of Polish political exiles in Siberia in the XIX century, represented in the pages of the magazine «Russian Archive».