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Mikhail Nikolaevich Muraviev "Wieszatel" Memoirs 1863 - 1865 [1896, insurrection].

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Memoirs of Count Mikhail Nikolaevich Muraviev "Wieszatel" 1863 - 1865 written in 1866
With a foreword by St[anislaw] Tarnowski

Cracow 1896
Spółka Wydawnicza Polska
161, [2] p., illustrations
Period binding, cloth with gilt titling on spine
Card edges marbled
Very nice condition, stamps: stamps of Franciszek Próchnicki - (b. 1847 in Brzeżany, d. Oct. 31, 1911 in Lviv) - Polish polonist teacher, educator.

For. ca: 20.5x14 cm

The diaries written by the Governor General of Lithuania during the suppression of the January Uprising present the perspective of a supporter of brutal repression of the independence movement .The author, who was a supporter of anti-Polish repressive measures, expresses in his diaries his beliefs and attitude towards the uprising. His position is aimed at the suppression and elimination of the Polish independence movement. In his diaries, he portrays his actions as necessary and justified in order to preserve the reign and maintain order. He describes acts of repression and persecution, which he believes were aimed at weakening the independence movement and halting aspirations for sovereignty. The governor general's perspective in these memoirs presents a one-sided viewpoint, focused on repressive actions against the insurgents and a negative attitude toward their goals and actions.

"Muravyov Mikhail N., Count (since 1864), called Vyacheslav, born October 12, 1796, Moscow, died September 10, 1866, St. Petersburg,
Russian general; in his youth member of the secret unions of the Decabrists, arrested and acquitted 1826; from 1828 deputy governor of Vitebsk and Mogilev, 1831-35 of Grodno, and from 1835 of Kursk; persecutor of political prisoners; 1857-61 minister of state property. Russia and opponent of enfranchisement; 1861-65 governor-general of Lithuania with unlimited powers; bloodily suppressed the January uprising in Lithuania and Belarus, where he introduced ruthless terror, for which he received the title of count, and was stigmatized by public opinion as a "hanged man". was stigmatized as a "hangatiel"; after resigning 1866, chairman of the Investigative Committee on Ishutinovists; Memoirs of Mikhail Nikolaevich Muraviev "Hangatiel" 1863-1865 (published 1885-95 in periodicals)." Source: encyklopedia.pwn.pl