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RIO GRANDE DO SUL The Polish immigrants began to arrive to Rio Grande do Sul (State in South Brazil) in expressive number starting from 1890, although already in 1877 a group of 400 identified people as Russians arrived in Porto Alegre (Capital's State) coming from Santa Maria da Boca do Monte. Actually they were Polish with Russian passports. Another group had arrived before two years, in 1875, in the Colony Conde d'EU, where today it is Garibaldi's city. This group, with Prussian passport is considered about the initial mark of the Polish immigration in Rio Grande do Sul. Teodor Kraszewski and Jan Danielski with your wives are registered respectively as proprietors of the Lots 105 and 25 and the first Polish of the lands gauchos are considered. Besides them Cichoscki, Kolosa, Czarnowski, Remus, Lewinski, Kurek, Bruski, Miszewski, Bilski, Szotrmowski, Sikorski and Ozowski, Merchel, Mokwa, Babinski, Zyglinski, Krewta, Szczpanski, Jaworski, Wisniewski, Grzeczka, Kufel, Dolnic, Kolc, Müller, Hamerski, Kuszkowski, Pollon and Wons came. In Rio Grande do Sul, about 40 places they sheltered the Polish immigrants in uncoiling of the colonization process: Rio Grande, Porto Alegre, Pelotas, Camaquã, Encruzilhada, Santo Antônio, Baixa Grande, Caxias do Sul, São Marcos, Veranópolis, Bento Gonçalves, Guaporé, Casca, Passo Fundo, Getúlio Vargas, Lagoa Vermelha, Erechim, Áurea, Sananduva, Gaurama, Barão de Gotegipe, Quatro Irmãos, Ijuí, Perau, Seberi, Tucunduva, Santa Maria, General Vargas, São Luís Gonzaga, Silveira Martins, Cruz Alta, Catuípe, Três de Maio, Santo Ângelo, Santa Rosa, Alecrim, Guarani das Missões, Guaíba and Garibaldi. In the end of last century, the unhappy Polish immigrants and being deceived by the government they wanted to return Poland. The knowing Russian government of the situation, ambassador Pierre Bogdanoff was designated to recruit soldiers for the Russian army among the youth’s immigrants Polish from Rio Grande do Sul. In your trips for the colonies gauchos, Bogdanoff made propaganda of the intentions of your majesties of forgiving them for the illegal exit of Kingdom and of transport payment for Caucasus and interior of Asia. In many colonies however, the emissary had to flee under violence threats and death. The rumors dispersed and many they went back to Porto Alegre in search of dreamed him repatriation. The precarious situation of feeding and health caused epidemic soaring of typhoid fever and variola. The irritated Polish with the poverty in that lived they provoked disturbances. In an of them eight immigrants were arrested. The authorities gauchos ordered that any case of disease was communicated immediately. The family Zielinski of D. Feliciano had some infected children. Somebody denounced the fact and the police, on behalf of the public health; it shot all the members of the family. Taking advantage of the extinction of the immigrant's lodge in Porto Alegre, the police officers spread many of the unhappy ones for the Brazilian ports, so that they tried to return to Poland. |
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