Polish President Andrzej Duda and First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak as well as Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda attended the ceremonies.
After a mass in Vilnius Cathedral, a funeral procession headed to the Rasos Cemetery, the Lithuanian capital’s oldest and biggest, for the reburial.
During the ceremony, the remains of two leaders of the insurgency, Zygmunt Sierakowski and Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski, as well as other participants in the revolt were laid to rest.
The remains of the insurgents were discovered during an archaeological dig at the Gediminas Castle Hill in Vilnius in 2017.
An insurgency dubbed the January Uprising broke out on January 22, 1863 when a provisional national government issued a manifesto in which it appealed to all Poles to take up arms against tsarist Russia.
The revolt became the largest and longest of Poland's armed struggles for independence during the 19th century. It comprised more than 1,200 battles and skirmishes fought by some 200,000 insurgents.
Over 30,000 insurgents were killed during the bloody one-year struggle and some 40,000 were deported to Russia’s remote Siberia region.
Poland ultimately regained independence on November 11, 1918, the day World War I ended, after 123 years of foreign rule.
(pk-jh)
Source: PAP