January Uprising - Famous Insurgents

Famous Insurgents

  • Stanisław Brzóska (1832–1865), was a Polish priest and commander at the end of the insurrection.
  • Konstanty Kalinowski (1838–1864), was one of the leaders of Lithuanian and Belarusian national revival and the leader of the January Uprising in the lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
  • Saint Raphael Kalinowski (1835–1907), born Joseph Kalinowski in Lithuania, resigned as a Captain from the Russian Army to become Minister of War for the Polish insurgents. He was arrested and sentenced to death by firing squad, but the sentence was then changed to 10 years in Siberia, including a grueling nine-month overland trek to get there.
  • Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish playwright and father of Joseph Conrad.
  • Antanas Mackevičius (1828-1863), Lithuanian priest who organized some two hundred and fifty men, armed with hunting rifles and straightened scythes. After a defeat near Vilkija, he was captured and taken to the prison in Kaunas. After Mackevičius refused to betray other leaders of the uprising, he was hanged on December 28, 1863,
  • Władysław Niegolewski (1819–1885), was a liberal Polish politician and member of parliament, an insurgent in the Greater Poland Uprisings of 1846 and 1848 and of the January 1863 Uprising, and a co-founder (1861) of the Central Economic Society (TCL) and (1880) the People's Libraries Society (CTG).
  • Bolesław Prus, (1847–1912), Polish writer.
  • Aleksander Sochaczewski (1843—1923), Polish painter.
  • Aleksander Waszkowski (1841-1865), President of Polish National Government (Leader of the January Insurrection. Arrested Dec 1864, Executed 1865.

Read more about this topic:  January Uprising

Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or insurgents:

    “Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.”
    —Alan Bennett (b. 1934)

    “Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)