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Bolesław Roman Dłuski
Bolesław Roman Dłuski, alias ''Jabłonowski'' ( or ''Balys Dluskis''; 19 August 1826 – 10 May 1905) was a Lithuanian physician, painter and military officer, leader of the January Uprising in Samogitia. Early life He spent his childhood in the family estate of Zamūšė (), Ukmergė County. He studied at the Vilnius gymnasium. In 1845, at the age of 14, he and his brother Przemysław were sentenced to prison by the Russian authorities for allegedly participating in an anti-state conspiracy. Service in the Imperial Russian Army Bolesław was sent to Caucasus, where he was included in a Russian penal military unit engaged in the Murid War against Imam Shamil. He remained in the army until 1856, reaching the rank of a captain in the Imperial Russian Army. Studies and medical career At his request, he was transferred to the reserve and then studied at St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. After a year, he moved to Moscow University, where he started medical studies. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukmergė County
Ukmergė County (, ) was one of the subdivisions of the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the eastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Ukmergė. Demographics At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Ukmergė County had a population of 229,118. Of these, 72.3% spoke Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, 13.2% Yiddish, 10.0% Polish language, Polish, 4.1% Russian language, Russian, 0.2% German language, German, 0.1% Belarusian language, Belarusian, 0.1% Romani language, Romani and 0.1% Ukrainian language, Ukrainian as their native language. Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей References {{Reflist Vilkomirsky Uyezd, Uezds of Kovno Governorate Kovno Governorate ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasvalys
Pasvalys () is a city in Panevėžys County, Lithuania, located near the bank of the Svalia River. History In 1557, the Treaty of Pasvalys was signed in the town, which provoked Ivan IV of Russia to start the Livonian War. Pasvalys has mineral spring waters – in 1923 physician K. Armonas created a small sanatorium. At this time about 200 people spent time in sanatorium yearly. Soviet occupation and mass deportations in 1941 were devastating – most of the most active teachers and civil servants, intellectuals were deported to remote regions in Russia and Central Asia. In August 1941, 1349 Jews from the village and the surroundings were executed by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and local collaborators as mentioned in the Jäger Report. After 1944 Soviet mass deportations started again – the main target were farmers and their families. Hundreds of families were deported. The program of forced collectivisation has started. Since 1947 partisans of Pasvalys district fought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Sierakowski
Zygmunt Erazm Gaspar Józef Sierakowski (, ; 19 May 1826, – 27 June 1863, Vilnius) was a Polish leader of the January Uprising in lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Biography Youth and education He was born in in Volhynia as a son of Polish nobleman veteran Ignacy Sierakowski, who has fallen during the November Uprising in Volhynia, and his wife Fortunata née Morawska. Sierakowski grew up in an atmosphere of elevated patriotism. His mother dressed him as a girl, wanting to avoid him being drafted into the Cantonist Battalion as a son of a rebel. He was also influenced by his maternal grandmother, the widow of Kościuszko insurrection veteran Wiktor Morawski. As well as his uncles veterans of the November Uprising Felicjan Koszkowski and Kajetan Celermanth, the latter of whom was a member of Szymon Konarski's conspiracy, and took care of Zygmunt and his mother. He graduated from a gymnasium in Zhytomyr. He then worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Kościałkowski
Józef is a Polish variant of the masculine given name Joseph. Art * Józef Chełmoński (1849-1914), Polish painter * Józef Gosławski (1908-1963), Polish sculptor Clergy * Józef Glemp (1929-2013), Polish cardinal * Józef Kowalski (1911-1942), Polish priest * Józef Milik (1922-2006), Polish priest and biblical scholar * Józef Tischner (1931-2000), Polish priest * Józef Andrzej Załuski (1702-1774), Polish priest and Bishop of Kyiv * Józef Życiński (1948-2011), Polish archbishop Literature * Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński (1748-1826), Polish novelist and poet * Józef Wybicki (1747-1822), Polish poet Military * Józef Bem (1794-1850), Polish general and engineer * Józef Grzesiak (1900-1975), Polish resistance member and scoutmaster * Józef Haller (1873-1960), Polish general * Józef Piotrowski (1840-1923), Polish participant in the January Uprising * Józef Poniatowski (1763-1813), Polish general * Józef Sowiński (1777-1831), Polish general * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whites (January Uprising)
The Whites () were a faction among Polish insurrectionists before and during the January Uprising in early 1860s. They consisted mostly of progressive-minded landowners and industrialists, the middle class, and some intellectuals of Russian controlled Congress Poland. The faction had its origins in the (Agricultural Society) started by Count Andrzej Artur Zamoyski in 1858. While the Whites supported ending serfdom, unlike the Red faction, they advocated for some kind of compensation to be made to the landlords. Also, unlike the Reds, the Whites generally opposed the idea of an armed insurrection against Russia, seeing it as doomed to failure. Instead, they tried to use diplomacy and the support of other European powers to win greater autonomy, a separate administration, and a native Polish army for Congress Poland. They also tried to influence the Tsar to engage in the recovery of former Polish lands, which had been taken by partitioning powers Austria and Prussia. However, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenčiai, Kėdainiai
Lenčiai (formerly , ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 18 people. It is located from Ažytėnai village, by the Ažytė river. History Lenčiai village is known since 1578. A big battle between the January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ... resurgents and Tsarist army occurred here on 1 April 1863. Demography Notable people * Mykolas Kuprevičius (1864–1932), Lithuanian publicist, entographer born in Lenčiai; * Mikalojus Katkus (1852–1944), Lithuanian writer, agronomist, buried in the Lenčiai cemetery. References Villages in Kaunas County Kėdainiai District Municipality {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Kuszłejko
Tomasz Egidiusz Kuszłejko (; 1821 – 1894) was a participant of the Uprising of 1863. Early life Kuszłejko came from the Lithuanian nobility, Lithuanian noble , he was born in in Samogitia. He was an officer of the Imperial Russian Army. He went into reserve and lived in the Bartkūniškiai manor near Kėdainiai. Tomasz Kuszłejko was the owner of the Bartkūniškis Manor, Bartkūniškis manor. Uprising of 1863 In March 1863, he was mobilised by Bolesław Dłuski to form a unit in the Krakės forests, near his manor. His unit of about 800 rebels, mostly peasants, concentrated in the Krakės-Dotnuva Forest, Krakiai forest near Kuszłejko's manor, chose him as commander. This unit was called the Nevėžis Regiment (). In addition to organising the unit, Kuszłejko enfranchised the peasants of his manor. The regiment fought between Krakės and Lenčiai, Kėdainiai, Lenčiai close to Ažytėnai, then in near , and finally near and near Viekšniai (9 June 1863). Kuszłejko r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
