 The discussions increasingly turned toward romanticist ideas that were banned by the Russian Empire for their pro-independence currents; history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was studied, pro-independence works written and circulated.The organizations inspired the creation of many similar youth organizations across the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and it established ties with similar clandestine pro-Polish organizations in Congress Poland and the rest of partitioned lands, such as the Patriotic Society ("Towarzystwo Patriotyczne") of Walerian Łukasiński, and even Russian organizations such as the Decembrists.Two closely related groups were formed