[Dedication to K. Strzelecki] Skałkowski A. M., Prince Joseph. Color illustrations according to paintings by Br. Gembarzewski

Skałkowski Adam Mieczyslaw, Prince Joseph. Ilustracye kolorowe pod pod pod według obrazów Br. Gembarzewskiego, Bytom G-Ś, nakładem i czcionkami "Katolika", Bytom 1913, edition II, p. 480, dimensions 23 x 29 cm. 10 color illustrations on plates outside the text [set of plates!], 32 black and white illustrations in the text. Publisher's hardcover, cloth binding with gilt (signed on back cover "J.B[ukowski]". page edges stained. Loose block. Dedication to Superintendent of the National Police Konstanty Strzelecki.

Konstanty Leon Strzelecki (born March 10, 1886 in Kawęczyn, died spring 1940) - Superintendent of the State Police, victim of the Katyn massacre. He attended schools in Pinczow and Piotrkow Trybunalski, studied at the Higher Forestry School in Lvov until 1907, after which he settled in Sosnowiec. After the outbreak of World War I, he served in the Civic Guard from 1914, and after its transformation from 1918 in the Municipal Militia as commander and in the Municipal Police of the city of Sosnowiec. After Poland regained independence with the rank of captain, he began serving in the Railway Guard, and after its incorporation into the State Police, he was appointed head of the Border Police Station in Sosnowiec and the 1st Police Station in Sos nowiec.On February 1, 1920 he was promoted to the rank of Commissioner of the State Police. A graduate of the State Police Main School in Warsaw from 1922, he held the post of district commissar of the State Police in Będzin from May 30, 1926, and from April 25, 1927 was an inspection officer of the State Police Provincial Headquarters in Brest. OnJune 1, 1929 he was appointed superintendent of the State Police, and on October 31, 1929 he was retired. During the Second Republic, Konstanty Strzelecki was said to have arrested communist activists: Bolesław Bierut and Aleksander Zawadzki. In view of the threat of armed conflict in 1939, he was directed to the position of commandant of civil defense in Sosnowiec. After the outbreak of World War II during the September 2, 1939 campaign, he evacuated to the east. After the September 17, 1939 aggression of the USSR against Poland, he was arrested by the Soviets at the railway station in Bialystok. He was held in a Bialystok prison. In the spring of 1940 he was murdered by NKVD officers as part of the Katyn Massacre in Kuropaty (the so-called Belarusian Katyn list).

Table of contents:

I. Childhood years - at the turn of the Saxon era

II. First impressions from Poland

III. Austrian service

IV. First service in the Republic of Poland

V. War in defense of the 3rd of May Act: Zieleniac

VI. The triumph of the Targowica

VII. During the period of the second partition

VIII. Insurekcya

IX. On the ruins of Poland's state existence

X. Warsaw under Prussian rule

XI. At the prelude of the first war for Poland

XII. The resurrection of national strength

XIII. After the Treaty of Tilsit

XIV. Raszyn

XV. The liberation of Galicia

XVI. In anticipation of the great war

XVII. The year 1812

XVIII. Last services