Early Years
Rumel, whose talent was often compared to the one of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, grew up in Krzemieniec in the province of Volhynia. The exact location of his birth has not been confirmed. He came from a military family, his father, an engineer of agriculture, was also an officer of the Polish Army who fought in the Polish-Soviet War and was awarded the Cross of Virtuti Militari.
The Rumel family lived in the countryside near Krzemieniec, in a manor once belonging to the family of Juliusz Słowacki. His parents were avid readers and their son inherited it from them. At home, he read Polish classics of Slowacki and Adam Mickiewicz.
Rumel graduated from a renowned Liceum Krzemienieckie and went to Warsaw to continue his education at the Warsaw University. Leopold Staff once said to his mother Anna: Keep an eye on this boy, he will be a great poet one day.
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