Tokarzewski S. - Seven years of katorgi - memoirs with 3 portraits of the author, Warsaw 1907 [ Exile to Siberia ].

Seven years of katorga - Memoirs of Szymon Tokarzewski ( 1846 - 1857) - memoirs with 3 portraits of the author.

Main typeset at Gebethner & Wolff Bookstore, Warsaw 1907

Soft binding, spine lined with linen. Block consistent, pages clean. Good condition. A set of cards.

Number of pages : 225

Format : 13 x 19 [cm].

Szymon Tokarzewski (1821-1900), social activist, insurgent , participant in the conspiracy of Rev. Sciegienny.

The memoirs cover the period of imprisonment in Lviv, stay in the Citadel, Modlin, exile to Omsk, stay in exile.

" For his participation in Rev. Sciegienny's conspiracy in 1842-1844, Simon was arrested in 1846 and imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel. After a trial, he was sentenced to 1,000 batons and 10 years of imprisonment. On June 17, 1848 he was sent with a group of political prisoners to Omsk for exile, where they arrived by walking on foot in 1849. Thanks to an amnesty on the occasion of Alexander II's ascension to the Russian throne, Simon returned to his homeland in 1857."