MURAWIEW MICHAEL MIKOŁAJEWICZ - Memoirs of Mikhail Nikolaevich Muraviev "Vyachesatiel" 1896

Memoirs of Count Mikhail Nikolaevich Muraviev ("Vyachesatel") (1863-1865) written in 1866

Translated from the original Russian by J... Cz... ; with a foreword by St. Tarnowski

16 engravings in the text

Mikhail Nikolaevich Muravyov (1796 - 1866) - Russian conservative state activist, governor-general of Vilna during the suppression of the January Uprising (1863-1865), count. After the outbreak of the January Uprising, Muravyov was appointed Governor-General of Lithuania on May 1, 1863. He was given unlimited powers and the task of suppressing the uprising. The governor-general's actions were indeed decisive and drastic. Repressions, in addition to direct fighting, according to a summary compiled by Muravyov himself, were subjected to about 9,500 people. For Poles, Muravyov became a symbol of the ruthless fight against Polishness, an exemplary Russian "villain." The nickname "Veshatel" is probably related to the summary show executions that he ordered, and in some cases participated in them

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Year of publication: Kraków, 1896 Spółka Wydawnicza Polska

Format: 14.5 x 20.5 cm

Binding: half-leather with embossing/gilt/two decorative signboards, raised wraps

Condition: Complete and consistent, no underlining or signatures, binding with minor rubbing, signboards slightly detached, small signboard/exlibris on the backstrip