History DarthWiki / VignettesFromTheOldWorld

* AnimalThemeNaming - in-universe in ''Conversation in a Hospital''. Neither Woolf, whose name has been suppressed in his notes to 'DW', nor his doctor will admit their names - for reasons which are made clear in the story.
* CourtroomEpisode - ''The Province of Salwatka versus Antoni Kurak'' - excerpts from a magistrates' court. The main character is the perp, not the lawyer. No HangingJudge here, though; given the defendant's social status, it's actually a ''relatively'' fair trial.
* GreatOffscreenWar - In ''The Orderly'', we see part of it - from the vantage point of a private detailed to muck out the main hospital a hundred miles behind the lines.
* HeyYou - In ''The Province of Salwatka versus Antoni Kurak'', [[{{DarthWiki/Achava}} Chicken]] is on trial for the theft from Hoeness. He preens himself when he hears himself referred to as ''Mr'' Kurak, something unheard of either at home in the villages or in the city.

* ZergRush - the implied tactics used in the Lenkish war of 1,971st-1,974th. Kostya is bored because he is ''not'' just being sent to the front as CannonFodder - he was too young to sign up until the Zerging was over.

* ModernMajorGeneral - Rysiek Piech. Michal's grandfather, and in ''The Man in the Window'', a dotty old man and an embarrassment to his son Wladek, who just happens to be a high-up military commander with quite a lot of field experience who has foreseen the next [[GreatOffscreenWar war]].

* ''Sharpears''

* ''Snegurochka (Snowmaiden)''

''Conversation in a Hospital''
''The Man In The Window''
''The Orderly''
''Snegurochka (Snowmaiden)''
''Sharpears''

* ModernMajorGeneral - Rysiek Piech. Michal's grandfather, and in ''The Man in the Window'', a dotty old man and an embarressment to his son Wladek, who just happens to be a high-up military commander with quite a lot of field experience who has foreseen the next [[GreatOffscreenWar war]].

* ModernMajorGeneral - Rysiek Piech. Michal's grandfather, and in ''The Man in the Window'', a dotty old man and an embarressment to his son Wladek, who just happens to be a high-up military commander with quite a lot of field experience who has foreseen the next [[GreatOffscreenWar war}}.

''Vignettes From The New World'' will be written in a similar way about the post-revolutionary Commonwealth, but no stories have been written for that quite yet. Watch this space.

Series of short stories by {{Tropers/Crowqueen}}, part of {{DarthWiki/TheNineLivesOfMichalPiech}} series but showcasing the backstories of some of the characters outside the scope of the main story arc.

Intended as a way to , and started in 2012 as a way of promoting the main series to curious readers.