"Polonia (Ba Lan), 1863", vẽ bởi Jan Matejko, 1864, sơn dầu trên toan, 156 × 232 cm, Bảo tàng Quốc gia Ba Lan (Kraków). Bức tranh mô tả kết cục sau thất bại của cuộc khởi nghĩa tháng Giêng. Họ đang chuẩn bị đưa 2 cô gái (đại điện cho 2 nước Ba Lan và Lietuva) để đi đày đến Siberia. Sĩ quan và lính Nga đứng cạnh một người thợ rèn đang còng tay Cô gái tượng trưng cho Ba Lan. Cô gái bên cạnh đại diện cho Lietuva.
Thời gian
22 tháng 1 năm 1863 – 18 tháng 6 năm 1864 (1 năm, 148 ngày)
Stanisław Brzóska (1832–1865), was a Polish priest and commander at the end of the insurrection.
Saint Albert Chmielowski (1845–1916), founder of the Albertine Brothers and Sisters.
Jaroslaw Dabrowski (1836-1871), officer in the Russian Army, left-wing member of the "secret committee" of officers in St. Petersburg. He took over its leadership from Sierakowski. He died in Paris fighting for the Paris Commune.
Saint Raphael Kalinowski (1835–1907), born Joseph Kalinowski in Lithuania, resigned as a Captain from the Russian Army to become Minister of War for the Polish insurgents. He was arrested and sentenced to death by firing squad, but the sentence was then changed to 10 years in Siberia, including a grueling nine-month overland trek to get there.
Marian Langiewicz (1827-1887), Military Commander of the uprising. He had an English wife, Suzanne, next to whom he was buried in Istanbul.
Antanas Mackevičius (1828–1863), Lithuanian priest who organized some two hundred and fifty men, armed with hunting rifles and straightened scythes. After a defeat near Vilkija, he was captured and taken to the prison in Kaunas. After Mackevičius refused to betray other leaders of the uprising, he was hanged on ngày 28 tháng 12 năm 1863,
Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), leading Polish writer of historical novels.
Anna Henryka Pustowójtówna (1838-1881), alias "Michał Smok", adjutant to Marian Langiewicz. She was of Russian-Polish parentage and an activist from 1861. She later took part in the Paris Commune and the Franco-Prussian War. She died in Paris, the mother of four children.
François Rochebrune, (1830-1870), one of several French officers in the Uprising, he formed and led a Polish rebel unit called the Zouaves of Death and was promoted to General.
Romuald Traugutt (1826-1864), a Lieutenant colonel of German descent in the Russian Army, he was promoted general in the insurrection, was its leader for a spell and held the Foreign Affairs portfolio in the underground government. He was tortured and hanged by the Russians with several of his colleagues.
Polish poet Cyprian Norwid wrote a famous poem, "Chopin's Piano," describing the defenestration of the composer's piano during the January 1863 Uprising, when Russian soldiers maliciously threw the instrument out of a second-floor Warsaw apartment. Chopin had left Warsaw and Poland forever shortly before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.
Józef Jarzębowski has put together material from unknown people who lived through the Uprising in his Mówią Ludzie Roku 1863: Antologia nieznanych i małoznanych Głosów Ludzi współczesnych. London: Veritas, 1963. ("Voices from 1863: An Anthology of unknown and little known contemporary Perspectives").
In Guy de Maupassant's novel Pierre et Jean, the protagonist Pierre has a friend, an old Polish chemist who is said to have come to Pháp after the bloody events in his motherland. This story is believed to refer to the January Uprising.