This article analyzes a collection of narratives concerning the Russian occupation of Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg), the capital of the Austrian Crownland Galicia, between September 1914 and June 1915 in the initial phase of World War I. These narratives were produced and published in Polish and German between 1915, when Lviv was still occupied, and 1935, sixteen years after it had been included in a reborn Poland. One might assume that the relatively uneventful occupation constituted a negligible experience in the context of the dramatic developments of this period: the Great War and the subsequent Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Soviet wars. And yet, memories of the Russian occupation were tenaciously perpetuated and cultivated. In this article I attempt to answer the multipronged question: Why did the occupation attract so much attention, and from whom, and what made its memories survive the subsequent dramatic conflicts and changes of political regimes relatively intact? Hence, my analysis regards the formation of collective memories at the intersection of individual experiences, group and national identities, and strategies of accommodating the unpredictably changing political realities.

本文分析了第一次世界大战初期在1914年9月至1915年6月之间，俄罗斯占领利沃夫（Lwów，伦贝格）奥地利奥兰多克兰地加里西亚的首都的一系列叙述。这些叙述是用波兰语制作和出版的以及从1915年（当时利沃夫仍被占领）到1935年之间的德意志，也就是在它被重生的波兰收录十六年之后。也许可以认为，在这一时期的戏剧性发展中，相对平稳的占领构成了微不足道的经历：大战以及随后的波兰-乌克兰和波兰-苏联战争。然而，对俄国占领的记忆却被顽强地保留下来。在本文中，我试图回答这个多方面的问题：为什么占领引起了如此多的关注？是什么使它的记忆在随后的戏剧性冲突和政治制度的变化相对完整的情况下得以幸存呢？因此，我的分析涉及在个人经历，群体和民族身份的交汇处形成的集体记忆，以及适应不可预知的变化的政治现实的策略。