O powstaniu powiatów winnickiego, jampolskiego i mohylowskiego
Synopsis
This publication presents the first edition of Marcin Rosienkiewicz’s memoirs entitled On the Uprising of the Winnica, Yampol and Mogilev counties, which until this moment had remained in manuscript in the collections of the Polish Library in Paris (rps. MAM 1097). Marcin Rosienkiewicz, a teacher of history and literature in Krzemieniec and a participant in the November Uprising in Ukrainian lands, was deported in 1833 with a group of 234 Poles by the Austrian government to the United States, where he began a fruitful and multi-dimensional mission to represent the Polish cause and help his compatriots in America. He went down in history as the author of the first book for Poles published in the United States, the founder of the first Polish school in the country and the Polish library in Philadelphia, and the co-founder of the Polish Committee; the first Polish organization in America representing the interests of Polish immigrants. He was greatly involved in promoting Polishness and maintaining the national spirit among the exiles in the U.S., and maintained contact with those involved with the Great Emigration, including Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Leonard Chodźko, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Eustachy Januszkiewicz, Karol Sienkiewicz, and Krystyn Lach Szyrma. For years, he informed the European emigration (especially in France and England) about the activities of Polish emigrants in America and their fate, and also published articles on Polish literature under the pseudonym Polonus. Another achievement of Rosienkiewicz was saving the memory of the lives and works of emigrants from oblivion, primarily August Antoni Jakubowski, the illegitimate son of Antoni Malczewski; the author of Maria.
Chapters
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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WPROWADZENIE .......... 7
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Marcin Rosienkiewicz – pionier i ambasador polskiej literatury w Stanach Zjednoczonych
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NOTA EDYTORSKA .......... 23
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O powstaniu powiatów winnickiego, jampolskiego i mohylowskiego .......... 27
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Historia i prawda. Narracja powstańcza Marcina Rosienkiewicza .......... 61
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Motywy kresowe w poezji powstania listopadowego .......... 89
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Powstanie listopadowe na Wołyniu, Podolu i Kijowszczyźnie .......... 119
