Marie Curie took up studying while Warsaw was beneath the rule of the Russian Empire.
She studied at Warsaw 's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw.
Flying University -LRB- Uniwersytet Latający , less often translated as `` Floating University '' -RRB- was an underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw , the historic Polish capital , then under the control of the Russian Empire , and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People 's Republic of Poland.
