More on Lublin and the Partitions

I'm making my way through Norman Davies "God's Playground: A History of Poland" Volume Two and came across something that contradicts the previous map I posted yesterday.  Apparently, Lublin fell within the Russian Partition of Poland, not the Austrian portion.  Take a look at this map:

The gray area in the middle is the Congress of Poland (Kongresspolen in German, apparently).  According to the book and Wikipedia, this was an autonomous region until the 1830's, when Russia made it essentially a vassal state. It includes Lublin and you can also see that Krakow is right on the border, but clearly within the Austrian Partition (but for some reason is yellow.  That needs some investigation).  After taking over the Congress of Poland, Russia renamed it Vistulaland, after the river which starts at Gdansk (then called Danzig) and cuts all the way through the Poland.

As with most things involving Polish history, this is all very complicated and requires a bit of unraveling to see what is really going on.

Also, my favorite quote of the day, from page 56 of God's Playground:

"The proliferating profusion of possible political permutations among the pullulating people and parties of the Polish provinces in this period palpably prevented the propagation of permanent pacts between potential partners". 

Mr. Davies, you are the premiere protector of Polish posterity and your prose performs it's planned purpose perfectly.