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The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1

Chapter 24: MAP OF THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH.
By Henryk Sienkiewicz
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The narrative follows a central figure's turbulent transformation during a devastating foreign invasion and the ensuing political upheaval, tracing shifts between impulsiveness and conscience amid sieges, pitched battles, and changing allegiances. Interwoven episodes portray urban and rural suffering, diplomatic maneuvering, and romantic entanglements, while large-scale set pieces dramatize military strategy and civic collapse. Themes of honor, loyalty, redemption, and communal survival surface through vivid battlefield scenes and intimate moral choices, presented in an episodic structure that balances sweeping historical panorama with personal drama.

MAP OF THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH.

This map, though diminutive, contains data through which the reader may see, at least in part, the historical course of the Commonwealth.

The territory is indicated which was lost to the Teutonic Knights, and which became later the kingdom of Prussia. On the east are indicated the Russian lands which became connected with Poland, and which rose against Polish rule in 1618. These lands are included between the lines running north and south on the map, and which are designated, respectively, “Western limit of Russia before the Tartar invasion,” “Eastern limit of the Polish Commonwealth at the accession of Yan Kazimir.”

The names of more important places mentioned in Fire and Sword and The Deluge appear also on the map. A few of these names are not so familiar in their Polish forms, which I have preserved; therefore the German is given, as follows:—

Polish. German.
Elblang Elbing
Glogov Glogau
Gnyezno Gnesen
Taurogi Tauroggen
Tyltsa Tilsit
Opol Oppeln
Poznan Posen