ACTS of indictment [!] in a case against persons placed under the Supreme Criminal Court in the Kingdom of Poland on charges of crimes excluded from the general pardon, which the Most Gracious Emperor of All Russia, King of Poland, et al. d. on October 20 / November 1, 1831 to his subjects in the Kingdom of Poland who participated in the revolt of 1830 and 1831, most graciously deigned to grant; together with the Sumamry of Evidence and Conclusions of the Prosecutor at the same Court. Warsaw 1834. 4, pp. VIII, 165, [1], 49, [1], 42. binding. pp.
Abrasions of title page, last page dusty, with loss of upper corner, ironed corner creases of many pages. Ex. uncut. Inventory notations in several places. The last act of the insurrectionary uprising of 1830 and 1831: Piotr Wysocki and his comrades stood trial before the Czar's court. The trial, which dragged on from Sept. 30, 1833 to Feb. 4 of the following year, was one of the largest political trials of the 19th century.The dictator of November Night was sentenced to death, as were many participants in the uprising. By the tsar's decision, the sentence was commuted, changing Wysocki's previous punishment to 20 years in the penal servitude. The print presented here contains a description of the trial and the sentences ("conclusions") of all the defendants, headed by Wysocki: "the ringleader and main instigator of the revolt on November 17/29, 1830, which broke out". An important source for the history of the November Uprising.
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