Kawalerzysta, dowódca i wykładowca — szkic do biografii gen. bryg. Konstantego Druckiego‑Lubeckiego (1893—1940)
Cavalryman, commander, and lecturer — a preliminary sketch to the biography of Brig. Gen. Konstanty Drucki‑Lubecki (1893—1940)

Summary/Abstract: The presented biographical sketch concisely depicts the decisive events of the life and professional activity of Prince Brig. Gen. Konstanty Drucki‑Lubecki. He was a member of princely house whose property included among others the Porochońsk estate. His thorough education was obtained at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Saint Petersburg. During the years 1918—1920 he played an active part as a member of the military in regaining Polish independence. The said process having been completed, he took a position of both cavalry commander and military lecturer, among others at the Central Cavalry School in Grudziądz and the Higher Military School in Warsaw. In 1939, as a commander the Vilnius Cavalry Brigade, he fought in the Polish September Campaign. After he had been taken into custody by the Soviet secret services, he was incarcerated as a prisoner of war in Sambor. In 1940, following the decision/pursuant to the decision of the highest USSR authorities, he was sentenced to death and then executed, probably in Kiev. His body was buried in Bykivnia forest. Throughout many year after his death, his close ones, namely his wife, children and brother‑in‑law, attempted to reconstruct his fate. But it was not until the 1990s, after the Ukrainian authorities handed to Poland the so‑called Ukrainian Katyń List, that the circumstances of General’s death were partially uncovered. Surely, the Prince’s remains are located in Kiev‑Bykivnia, yet they have not been discovered thus far.

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