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Nicolas I, 1825-1855. Cast Bronze Medal ND (1846) by David d'Angers. The Massacre of Poles in Galicia. Colignon 1427. BR 18.93 g. RR

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The Galician Slaughter also known as the Peasant Uprising of 1846 or the Szela uprising or Polish (Rabacja galicyjska) was a two-month uprising of Polish peasants which led to the suppression of the szlachta uprising (Kraków Uprising) and massacre of szlachta in Galicia in the Austrian partition in early 1846. The peasant uprising lasted from February to March. It was a rising against serfdom, directed against manorial property and oppression (for example, the manorial prisons), with many victims; Galician peasants (mainly Polish) killed about 1,000 noblemen and destroyed about 500 manors. The Austrian government used the uprising to decimate nationalist Polish nobles, who were organizing an uprising against Austria. It was the largest peasant uprising on Polish lands in the 19th century.