Sądy Zygmunta Krasińskiego o Michale Czajkowskim (Sadyku-Paszy)
The Judgements of Zygmunt Krasiński on Michał Czajkowski (Sadyk-Pasza)

Summary/Abstract: The article relates to the period of the ideological and armed (participation in the Crimean War) struggle for the independence of Poland before the January Uprising. The author reflects on the problem of Krasiński’s evolving attitude towards the activist Czajkowski. This attitude had been evolving for over a dozen years. The evolution of attitudes was moving from admiration, through compassion, followed by disappointment and then contempt and gestures of condemnation. The causes of such diametrically changing opinions about the Cossack poet and leader might be found – according to the author of the article – in the ideological divergence and different world-views of Krasiński and Czajkowski. The author situates Krasiński’s position against the background of the Romantic era and compares his views with those of other contemporary researchers and biographers.

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