Moje wspomnienia Stanisława Srzednickiego jako źródło historyczne. Część I
My Memoirs by Stanislaw Srzednicki as a historical source. Part I

Summary/Abstract: My Memoirs by Stanislaw Srzednicki is a narrative source of yet undetermined usefulness in the study of the history of the Congress Kingdom of Poland. The purpose of the presented research is the source criticism of the memoir within the framework of three thematic areas designated by selected memories relating to family (part I), education and professional career of the memoirist (part II). The undertaken analysis enables determining the reliability of the First President of the Supreme Court’s account and allows indicating factual discrepancies, assessing their scale and explaining their probable causes. The results of this work provide a basis for evaluating the usefulness of My Memoirs as a historical source in the study of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. A story of Stanislaw Srzednicki – an important court official of the Congress Kingdom of Poland who played an indispensable role in the Polish state- and law-making process of the Second Polish Republic – becomes a natural correlate of the conducted analysis.

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