[January Uprising - Marian Langiewicz and Anna Henryka Pustowojtówna - photograph of a drawing by Emil von Hartitzsch - shot...

[ JanuaryUprising - Marian Langiewicz and Anna Henryka Pustowojtówna - photograph of drawing by Emil von Hartitzsch - cdv shot]. [ca. 1864]. Photograph form. 7.9x5.7 cm on backing form. 9.8x6.3 cm, commissioned by Joseph Bermann in Vienna.
The dictator of the uprising pictured on horseback, with his aide-de-camp standing next to him. Both in insurgent garb. Photo pasted on original cardboard backing. On the back an advertising vignette of the establishment printed: "Joseph Bermann Kunsthandlung Wien Graben zur goldenen Krone". Shot reprod. in: L. Machnik "Photographs of January Insurgents", Wr. 2002, item 186. minor local stains, otherwise good condition.
A. H. Pustowojtówna (Pustowójtówna, Pustowoitoff), married Loewenhardtowa, alias Michal Smok, Michalek (1838 -1881) - daughter of a tsarist general and a Polish woman, educated at the Ladies' Institute in Puławy. Participant in patriotic manifestations, deported to Russia escaped to Moldova. In the uprising - adjutant to [Dionizego] Czachowski in the camp of [Marian] Langiewicz. Arrested with Langiewicz on the Austrian border, she left for Prague after a short stay in prison. After a few months in Galicia, she emigrated, living in Paris since 1866. (Biography 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, p. 306).
M. Langiewicz (1827-1887) - the most popular participant in the January Uprising, former participant in the revolution of 1848, officer in the Prussian army, Garibaldist. In 1861, organizer and lecturer of the Polish military school in Genoa. In 1863, initially head of the armed forces in the Sandomierz province with the rank of colonel, then general, to whom the Cracow province was also subordinated, and dictator of the insurgency. Arrested by the Austrians on March 19, 1863, he was imprisoned for two years. He then stayed in Switzerland and Turkey. He was buried in Constantinople. (Biogram for "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, p. 120).