Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski Prince, Adam George Czartoryski ( born January 14, 1770 in Warsaw, † July 15, 1861 in Montfermeil, France) was a Russian foreign minister under Tsar Alexander I and Prime Minister of the Polish revolutionary government of 1830.

He belonged to an old noble family, which had worked at the time of partition of Poland with Russia and Empire of Austria, and was the son of General and Field Marshal Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and his wife Izabella Czartoryska. After the failure of the Polish Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, he came as a hostage to the Russian court. There he became friends with Alexander I and his Secretary of State was of 1804-1806. He accompanied him to the Congress of Vienna and obtained that Alexander gave Poland a constitution in 1815.

In Warsaw he was a member of the lodge Les trois frères. After the failure of the Polish uprising of 1830 he had to flee from Poland. First, he went to England, settled but then permanently settled in Paris, where he tried to work against his political contacts, especially to the English Masonic Lodge, the Austrian and Russian expansion into Eastern Europe. The headquarters of the Czartoryski family in Paris, the Hôtel Lambert, became the political center of the Polish emigration in Europe.

As a refuge for his followers, who had to flee from Poland after the failed uprising of 1830, he founded the settlement in 1842 Adampol - today Polonezköy - in Istanbul.

Czartoryski died in exile in France. 1865 the coffin was transferred with his remains to Poland and buried in the family vault in the then Austrian Sieniawa.

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