Ludzie i wydarzenia z 1863 r. Prace badawcze i dokumentacyjne nad materiałami zgromadzonymi przez Augusta Kręckiego
People and events of 1863. Research and documentation of the materials collected by August Kręcki

Author(s): Jarosław Kita
Subject(s): History
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: August Kręcki; January Uprising; January Insurgents; Siberian Deportees; Polish Army Museum
Summary/Abstract: The Collection of August Kręcki is kept in the archives of the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw. This participant of the January Uprising and a Siberian exile, after returning from Siberia undertook the intensive task of gathering information about the participants of the 1863 insurrection and their post-uprising fate. Within a few decades he gathered a large amount of source material containing lists of insurgents, commanders of insurgent parties, Siberian exiles, descriptions of their participation in the uprising and post-uprising fates, including their time in exile and their time in gulags, which are included in the letters sent or in the memoirs. An important part of the collection are death announcements and obituaries of the participants of the January insurrection. The Museum’s collections also contain thousands of photographs of January insurgents. The collections of August Kręcki are little known even to the researchers of the January Uprising and thus only sporadically used. The condition of the materials is quite diverse – some of them were written in pencil or poor quality ink, hence the passage of time makes them less and less readable. This extremely interesting collection should be made available to the wider audience by digitizing the documents; the most valuable letters, memories and death announcements / obituaries – edited and commented on by an appropriate team of researchers – should be published in the form of source publications.

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