Rozwój, handel i transport odeski w opisie „Gazety Urzędowej Królestwa Polskiego”

Abstract

The aim of the article is to show how „Tygodnik Petersburski. Gazeta Urzędowa Królestwa Polskiego” ("Weekly Petersburg. The Official Newspaper of the Kingdom of Poland") presents information on the demographic and economic development of the city and port of Odessa; the development of trade in Odessa, as well as transport issues, related directly or indirectly to this city. The selective, by necessity, comparison of these data will allow us to show a general outline of the intellectual horizon, created in relation to this especial city by circles of Polish society from the pre-January part of the partitions era – the circles which were oriented at least to a certain extent towards cooperation with the tsardom.