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Warsaw University ( Polish Uniwersytet Warszawski) - the biggest and one of the most prestigious universities in Poland.
The Royal University of Warsaw was established in 1816, when the partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the oldest and most influential academic center in Cracow. The School of Law and the Medical School were first established in the Duchy of Warsaw. In 1816 Alexander I permitted the Polish authorities to create a university, composed of five faculties: Law and Administration, Medicine, Philosophy, Theology and Art and Humanities. Soon the university grew and the number of students reached 800 while the number of professors reached 50.
However, after most of the students and professors took part in the November Uprising of 1830, the university was closed down by the Russians.
After the Crimean War Russia entered a brief period of liberalization called the Post-Sevastopolian Thaw . A creation of a Polish medical and surgical college in Warsaw was permitted (Akademia Medyko-Chirurgiczna). In 1862 faculties of Law and Administration, Philology and History and Mathematics and Physics were opened. The newly-established college gained much importance and was soon renamed to "Main School" (Szkola Glówna). However, after the January Uprising the liberal period ended and all schools with Polish language were closed again. During its short existence the Main School managed to educate more than 3 000 students, many of whom became the backbone of Polish intelligentsia.
The Main School was replaced with a Russian languageRussian /'ruski j'zk/) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, inclu "Imperial University of Warsaw". Its purpose was to provide education for the Russian military garrison of Warsaw, however the main group of the students (up to 70% out of an average of 1 500 to 2 000 students) were Poles. The tsarist authorities believed that the Russian university would become a perfect means of russificationThis article is about the political term. For localization of computers and software, see Russification (computers). Russification refers to both official and unofficial policies of Imperial Russia and Soviet Union with respect to their national constitue of the Polish society and spent significant effort on building a new university campus. However, various underground organizations soon started to spread out and the students became their leaders in Warsaw. Most notable of these groups (the supporters of Polish revival and the socialistsFor information on mainstream political parties using the term "Socialist", see Social democracy and Democratic socialism For the governments of the USSR, the PRC, and others, see: Communist state Other variants of Socialism include Marxism, Communism, an) joined the ranks of the 1905 Revolution. Afterwards a boycottThis page is about boycott as a form of protest. For other uses of the word boycott see Boycott (disambiguation). A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the b of Russian educational facilities was proclaimed and the number of Polish students dropped to below 10%. Most of the students who wanted to continue their education left for GaliciaGalicia ( Polish: Galicja, German: Galizien, Ukrainian: (Halychyna), Slovak: Halic, Romanian: Galitia, Hungarian: Gacsorszag) is the name of a region of Central Europe. The region takes its name from the earliest regional capital, the city of Halicz in Uk and Western Europe.