He was 31 years old, when on 27 February 1839, he was executed by firing squad on the orders of a tsarist court, secretly buried in Vilnius, and his grave was trampled over by horses so that no one would ever be able to find it. Yet only a few months later, the burial site was discovered, his body was secretly exhumed and reburied in the Calvinist cemetery in Vilnius. What had Szymon Konarski – who is the subject of this story – done to deserve death at the hands of the Russian occupying authorities and to earn such profound respect from his compatriots?
27.02.1839. The execution of Szymon Konarski
