Panna Kruszyńska i jej najbliżsi
Miss Kruszyńska and her closest relatives

Summary/Abstract: The desire to restore the memory of „Miss Kruszyńska” appeared while working on Zdzisław Tarnowski’s notebooks, kept at the National Archives in Krakow, containing a description of his trip to the Middle East in 1891. After identifying her name, „Józia”, it turned out thats she appears both in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s letter and among the expedition companions described by Tarnowski. We know that Józefa Kruszyńska sailed on a dahabiya to the Second Cataract of the Nile among such famous figures as Andrzej Potocki with his wife Krystyna, Władysław Michał Pius Branicki with his wife Julia and daughter Maja, Zdzisław Tarnowski and Kazimierz Pochwalski. Handwritten sources from the Krakow archives made it possible to capture the fate of both Józefa Kruszyńska and her immediate family.

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