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Jakób Gieysztor
Jakób Gieysztor (; 18 April 1827 – 15 November 1897) was a Polish-Lithuanian identity, Polish-Lithuanian nobleman and politician who participated in the January Uprising, January Uprising of 1863. Gieysztor was also an antiquarian, publicist, and one of the leaders of the ''Whites (January Uprising), Whites'' political group in Lithuania. He has published his memoirs of his participation in the uprising and the subsequent deportation to Siberia. Ancestry Jakób Gieysztor in his own memoirs notes that he is a descendant of a not very wealthy, but well-known noble family in Lithuania, and explains that "there was no truly historical figure in the Gieysztor family", although he notes that the family has been mentioned in Lithuania for several hundred years. Gieysztor's father, Stanisław, is mentioned as a president of the land courts and an active member of the Kaunas insurgent committee in the November Uprising of 1831. Gieysztor mentions his grandfather's brother, Dominik, as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 insurgents were captured by the Russian forces in 1864. It was the longest-lasting insurgency in partitioned Poland. The conflict engaged all levels of society and arguably had profound repercussions on contemporary international relations and ultimately transformed Polish society. A confluence of factors rendered the uprising inevitable in early 1863. The Polish nobility and urban bourgeois circles longed for the semi-autonomous status they had enjoyed in Congress Poland before the previous insurgency, a generation earlier in 1830, and youth encouraged by the success of the Italian independence movement urgently desired the same outcome. Russia had been weakened by its Crimean adventure and had introduced a more liberal attitude in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
