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"Warszawianka" is a Polish song written some time between 1879 and 1883. The title, a deliberate reference to the earlier song by the same title, could be translated as either "the song of Warsaw" or "the lady of Warsaw". To distinguish between the two, it is often called "Warszawianka 1905 roku" ("Warszawianka of 1905"), after the song became the hymn of demonstrating workers during the Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–1907), when 30 workers were shot during the May Day demonstrations in Warsaw in 1905.
According to one version, Wacław Święcicki wrote the song in 1879 while serving a sentence in the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel for socialist activity. Another popular version has it written in 1883, immediately upon Święcicki's return from exile in Siberia. By the beginning of the next decade the song became one of the most popular revolutionary anthems in Russian-held Poland. The composer of the music is unknown.
Warszawianka may refer to:
- Warszawianka (1831), Polish patriotic song originally written in French as La Varsovienne in 1831
- Warszawianka (1905), Polish revolutionary song originally written in Polish in 1879, popularized in Poland in 1905 and later in other countries
- Warszawianka, Masovian Voivodeship, a village
- Warszawianka Warszawa, a Warsaw sports club, 1921–1971
- Project 636 Varshavyanka, an Improved Kilo class submarine