Walerian Łukasiński

Walerian Łukasiński ( born April 15, 1786 in Warsaw, † January 27, 1868 in the key castle ) was a Polish officer and political activist. He was sentenced by the tsarist authorities due to insubordination to 14 years in prison, but remained there until his death 46 years in prison. He is regarded as a prominent figure of the Polish resistance against Russian rule in Poland and is revered as a national hero.

Life and work

Łukasiński was born in 1786 in Warsaw. At this time Poland had already been reduced by the first Partition of Poland. But Warsaw was the capital of the state. After Napoleon, the Duchy of Warsaw, founded in 1807, is Łukasiński reported for the Polish army. Even after the fall of the Duchy of Warsaw, he remained in the army. He also served in the army of the state, founded in 1815 Congress Poland. From 1818, he tried to establish contacts with other freedom fighters. He tried in 1818 an underground army, the so-called Wolnomularstwo Narodowe ( "National Masonic " ) to set up. This was only for a few months.

Łukasiński refused to dismiss a number of Polish officers from the service. The tsarist authorities accused him of seditious activities and insubordination and sentenced him to seven years' hard labor in the city of Zamość. His term was doubled to 14 years, as he had allegedly involved in an uprising against the bad condition in detention as a leader. In the course of the November Uprising, the conditions of detention of the Polish prisoners were again tightened. From 1830 a number of Polish resistance fighters were transferred to the high security prison Schlüsselburg. Łukasiński was here from 1831 in solitary confinement until his death in 1868. Supposedly Łukasiński have had contact with the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, who was also imprisoned in the castle key.

Receptions

The Polish artist Stanisław Wyspiański processed the fate of Łukasiński in the play Noc listopadowa (German: November Eight, 1904).

• Person in the November Uprising (Poland )
• Person (Polish history )
• Freemasons (Poland )
• Pole
• Born in 1786
• Died in 1868
• Man