SIWIŃSKI Jan - Katorżnik czyli pamiętniki sybiraka napisane przez ... Cracow 1905.

Author: SIWIŃSKI Jan

Title: Katorżnik czyli pamiętniki sybiraka napisany przez ... exiled in 1863 for eight years to catorial work in Nerchinskiy mines, Zabaykalsky country in Siberia.

• Place of issue: Kraków
• Year of publication: 1905
• Publisher: Polish Publishing Company
• Number of pages: 127, [2]
• Illustrations, maps: ---
• Size: 20.5 cm
• Binding: hard cloth with embossed floral ornamentation, gilt on spine, decayed page edges
• Condition: signature private bookplate stamp
• ISBN: ---

Description:

Maliszewski 3331.

Jan Siwiński (1845-1924) Memoirs of an exile after the January Uprising. He joined a volunteer insurgent unit as an 18-year-old, having run away from home. He took part in a skirmish near Rataje and Komorow, where he was taken prisoner. He was imprisoned and interrogated in Kielce and Radom. By court sentence he was sentenced to 4 years of hard labor, a period soon doubled.

Recalling the road to the place of exile, he wrote: "The road through hell is the very stage through Siberia" ("this sentence from Siwiński's diary is among those often quoted in works on Polish exiles". (PSB)).

He worked in a gold mine, road construction, and at the port. After five years of exile, he was covered by a tsarist amnesty, and returned to Galicia, from where he originated.