Polonyalı General Taczanowski’nin Sultan Abdülaziz’e Yazdığı Tezkere
Polish General Edmund Taczanowski’s Memorial to Sultan Abdüllaziz

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the discovered Greater Poland Military Museum in Poznań, the unpublished text of the memorial in French, which General Edmund Taczanowski, one of the leaders of the January Uprising, intended to address to the Ottoman sultan, in the hope of creating Bulgarian-Turkish troops, which were then to be used in battles with Russia. The memorial was probably created during Taczanowski’s trip to Istanbul in December 1863. In his hometown region of Greater Poland it was a period of a lively fascination with the Slavic region, which was in line with the idea of searching for concepts of „Slavic reciprocity” alternative to Russian Pan-Slavism and Austro-Slavism. In this context, the manifesto is one of the most interesting testimonies of yet another scenario of national liberation, which – purely instrumentally – treated the Bulgarian population, pointing to the Polonocentric nature of Taczanowski’s idea.

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