Michał Wołodyjowski

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Michał Wołodyjowski [ mixaʊ vowodɨjovski ] (also Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski ) is a fictional Polish hero and one of the most important protagonists of the history trilogy by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz , consisting of the novels With Fire and Sword , Deluge and Mr. Wołodyjowski . The figure represents the personified ideal of the so-called Sarmatian and is partly based on the historical person of the Polish chieftain and colonel Jerzy Wołodyjowski from the Korczak coat of arms .

Although Michał Wołodyjowski appears in all three volumes of the trilogy, he experiences a constant change from a simple but brave soldier to a legendary and all-important colonel. His relationship and, above all, his loyalty to other characters in the trilogy are also changeable. Because of his small size, he is known as the Little Knight , but is considered the best fencer in Poland. The two nobles Jan Skrzetuski and Jan Onufry Zagłoba are always at his side . His wife is Barbara Jeziorkowska , although he seems to have been abandoned by love for much of the story . Michał Wołodyjowski found his end as a martyr during the siege of Kamieniec Podolski in 1672, during the Polish-Ottoman War , when he and his Scottish friend Ketling von Elgin blew himself up in a gunpowder depot to destroy a fortress besieged by the Turks save.

literature

  • Henryk Sienkiewicz: Fire in the Steppe , Hippocrene Books, 1992, ISBN 0-7818-0025-0 .
  • Jerzy R. Krzyżanowski: The Trilogy Companion. A Reader's Guide to the Trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz , Hippocrene Books, 1992, ISBN 0-87052-221-3 .
  • Sienkiewicz Trilogy DVD edition, 2004.

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