Bronislaw Zaleski

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Bronisław Zaleski, around 1875
Bronisław Zaleski self-portrait 1850

Bronislaw Zaleski ( Belarusian Браніслаў Францавіч Залескі Branislau Franzawitsch Saleški , Russian Бронислав Францевич Залесский Bronislaw Franzevich Salesski * 1819 or 1820 in Raczkiewicze , Minsk province , Russian Empire ; † 2. January 1880 in Menton on the Côte d'Azur, France ) was a Polish and Belarusian social activist, journalist , editor , historian and artist .

Life

Bronisław Zaleski was born into a noble family in Raczkiewicze, today's Tschyrwonaja Slabada ( Чырвоная Слабада ) near Salihorsk in what is now the Belarusian town of Woblasz Minsk .

In 1837 he was because of his membership in a secret student organizations at the University of Tartu in the Chernigov Governorate banned. After his exile ended in 1845, he settled in Vilnius and established connections with members of the Polish liberation movement. In 1846 he was arrested again and after the end of his trial he was sentenced to go to Orenburg as a common soldier , where he served from 1848. There he met Zygmunt Sierakowski and formed a close friendship with Taras Shevchenko, who was also exiled there in November 1849, after his return from the Aral expedition, and has corresponded with him for years since then. During the Karatau expedition in 1851 he was promoted to sergeant for an outstanding and hardworking service . On June 12, 1856, he was released from service as an ensign and returned to his family in Raczkiewicze, Belarus.

After he had been publicly active for some time in preparation for the land ownership reform, he was given a leave abroad in 1860, from which he never returned. In Paris in 1862 he joined revolutionary organizations to prepare a new uprising. He was also active for many years in the Polish émigré press and gained popularity both as a historian and as an artist. From 1866 he was secretary of the Historical-Literary Society in Paris and from 1868 he was director of the Polish Library in Paris. In 1865 he published the album The Life of the Kyrgyz Steppe , which contained etchings by himself and several drawings by Taras Shevchenko, and in 1866 he wrote the memoirs of Polish exiles in Orenburg . In 1873 Zaleski became a corresponding member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności in Cracow . He died of tuberculosis in Menton, France, in 1880 .

Web links

Commons : Bronisław Zaleski  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry on Bronisław Zaleski in the reference edition of the Orenburg-Shevchenko encyclopedia ; accessed on August 2, 2018 (Russian)
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Bronisław Zaleski in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on August 2, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ^ Entry on Zygmunt Sierakowski in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on August 16, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Short biography Bronisław Zaleski ; accessed on August 2, 2018 (Polish)
personal data
SURNAME Zaleski, Bronislaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Залескі, Браніслаў Францавіч (Belarusian); Залесский, Бронислав Францевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish and Belarusian social activist, journalist, editor, historian and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1819 or 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Raczkiewicze , Minsk Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1880
Place of death Menton on the Cote d'Azur, France