Krzemieniec. Opowieść o rozsądku zwyciężonych

In 1805 Tadeusz Czacki, with Hugo Kołłątaj, founded a lyceum in Krzemieniec, in lands Poland had lost to Russia. The essay is largely about power and about using politically ambiguous situations for good ends: about Czacki and Kołłątaj, Adam Czartoryski, Tsar Alexander I and Novosiltsev, and about the unpredictable tyranny of absolute rule. Drawing on rich sources, it also paints the mentality and customs of the borderlands at the time.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

201 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine, from 1805

First published

2003 by Wydawnictwo Sic!

Author's age

75 when first published

ISBN

9788388807350 (original)