KOSSAK-SZCZUCKA Zofja - Pożoga. Memoirs from Volhynia 1917-1919. Kraków 1922. 1st edition.

Author: KOSSAK-SZCZUCKA Zofja

Title: Pożoga. Memories from Volhynia 1917-1919

• Place of publication: Kraków
• Year of publication: 1922
• Publisher: Publishing House: Krakow Publishing Company
• Number of pages: X, 443, [1].
• Illustrations, maps: several pasted illustr.
• Size: 16.5 cm
• Binding: hard half cloth, with signboard on the spine
• Condition: rubbing/scuffing of binding, a few pasted up pages (no harm to text), outdated stamp (also of Lesko Castle Library), signature in pencil.

Description:

Issue 1, with a preface by Prof. St. Estreicher.

"In a distant corner from European events, in a land tightly cut off from the just-emerging Polish state, great things were happening, determining the entire future of this country for a long time. The old order, based on the rule of the tsarist dynasty, was falling into ruins, but at the same time there was also an effort to completely demolish all traces of the culturally dominant Polishness there. The author watched the progress of these endeavors up close and had the opportunity to observe them as closely as possible, being one of their victims. (...) Thus, the description of the events that the population, whether Polish or Ruthenian, experienced from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution until the entry of the first detachments of the regular Polish army will certainly be, once and for all, one of the most valuable and reliable materials for future historians of these events?" From Stanislaw Estreicher's Introduction to the first edition of "Pożoga".

The book describes the annihilation of borderland manors during the warfare and revolutionary struggles in Ukraine in 1917-1919. Polish libraries were also lost during the looting and pogroms.

Stamp "Lesko Castle Library" (owned by the Krasicki family from 1799 to 1939).