Sergiusz Piasecki
Sergiusz Piasecki ( born April 1, 1901 in Lachowicze (now Lyakhavichy, Belarus ); † September 12, 1964 in London) was a Polish writer.
Life
Piasecki was an illegitimate son of the Polish nobles Michał Piasecki and his lover Klaudia Kukałowicz. Whether his illegitimate descent to Piaseckis childhood and youth designed very difficult. When he learned in 1917 by the Revolution, he left his family and went in the same year to Moscow. There he was soon put off by the atrocities of the Revolution and under this impression, he was transformed into a self-confessed anti-communists.
Piasecki returned to his home, but soon joined the Polish forces to which were ordered to Minsk to take around the city. In this war against the Soviet Union, he fought among others in August 1920 at the Battle of Radzymin.
Due to his knowledge of languages ( Polish, Russian, White Russian), Polish intelligence was aware of Piasecki and took him to February 1926 as a translator and interpreter under contract. But the occasion of a political purge, he lost this office. Due to this sudden destitution he decided to attack two traveling merchants. Took place a few days after this robbery - with a friend - another raid in which they were caught.
Piasecki was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The first time he served in prison by Lida. Since he staged there along with other an uprising, he was transferred to the prison in Rawicz. When he also acted as a rebel because he came to Koronowo and later in the prison of Wronki. The largest part of his sentence he was serving then in Lysiec Góra, where he already ill after recently of tuberculosis.
In one of these prisons Piasecki made the acquaintance of the journalist Melchior Wańkowicz, the research for a report about the poor conditions and encouraged him to write. His debut novel " Kochanek Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy " was created in a short time and became a great success. Politically, this publication had a discussion about his clemency result and 1937 signed by President Ignacy Moscicki Piaseckis dismissal.
During the Second World War, Piasecki joined the Home Army and fought against the German occupiers. In April 1946 he went into exile in Italy, where he inter alia Giedroyc Polish literati joined. The following year, he went to Britain and settled in London.
On September 12, 1964 Sergiusz Piasecki died in London and found his final resting place in Hastings.
Works (selection)
- The lover of the great bear. Roman ( " Kochanek Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy "). Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-462-02553-8 ( Nachdr d ed Cologne 1957).
- Street ballad. Roman ( " Żywot człowieka rozbrojonego "). Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1960.