January Uprising - Jerzy Kraskowski - portrait photograph of the veteran with his handwritten dedication.

[ JanuaryUprising - Jerzy Kraskowski - portrait photograph of veteran with his handwritten dedication]. [DECEMBER 18, 1924]. Postcard photograph form. 13.4x8.4 cm.
Shot in bust, in profile. On the back handwritten dedication in ink: "Jerzy Kraskowski veteran of 1863 pleads to the hearts and memory of Dear Mr. and Mrs. Franciszek and Helena Goc in Cracow. 18/XII-924 Warsaw [...]". Slight staining on the reverse, otherwise good condition. Biography reproduced after: "The January Uprising and Siberian Exiles. Catalog of photographs from the collection of the Historical Museum of the City of Warsaw", part 1 in ed. K. Lejko. War. 2004, item 366).
J. Kraskowski (1843-1932) - "from a landed gentry family from Grodno. As a student of war engineering in Vilna, he organized the transportation of weapons and ammunition for the uprising. Weapons collected by him and his colleagues were carried to the railroad depot and hidden at the bottom of the wagons covered with gravel. As a result of the train driver's treachery, the affair came to light, and 300 people - including Kraskowski - were imprisoned. Sentenced to death, pardoned, he was exiled 'in the sołdaty' to Siberia, where he spent nine years. In the last years of his life, he was an ensign of the historic banner of Edmund Taczanowski's unit, which was donated to the Society of Friends of Veterans of 1863, and vice-president of the Mutual Aid Association of Participants of the 1863 Uprising. He was awarded the Cross of Valor. His solemn funeral was attended, among others, by Marshal Pilsudski's wife."