Piotr Ściegienny spent 25 years of his long, almost 90-year life in Siberia. 10 years behind Baikal, and another 15 in the city of Perm in the Urals. He got there thanks to the Tsar’s “grace”…
January.31.1801. Piotr Ściegienny was born
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January 4, 1905. Pr. Władysław Bukowiński was born
He spent almost all his priestly life in Kazakhstan, where he was exiled. Even when he could have returned to Poland, he chose to remain with his faithful.
September 24, 1842. Michał Jankowski – a four-eyed shooter
Michał Jankowski: The son of an impoverished nobleman was born on the 24’th of September 1842 in Złotoria, near Tykocin in Podlasie. He took part in the January Uprising when he was just over twenty years old. He was sent to Sybir with a sentence of 8 years.
22.04.1908 – Janina Lewandowska – a pilot who loved life
Second Lieutenant pilot Janina Lewandowska wasn’t really the only woman, who died in Katyn, but the only female soldier who was shot there.
31.10.1906 – Marian Malinowski – Exile, fugitive, minister
On 31 October 1906 Marian Malinowski set off, as he himself put it, “on a journey into the unknown at government expense.”
7.07.1892 – Jan Czerski – Scientist, Insurgent, Exile
He died on 7 July (25 June according to the Julian calendar) 1892 on the Siberian river Kolyma.
20.05.1881 – Władysław Sikorski is born
God looks into my heart. He sees and knows my intentions, which are pure and honest. My only goal is a free, just and great Poland, he said to...
5.12.1867 – Józef Piłsudski’s Birthday
On December 5, 1867, Józef Piłsudski was born at the manor house in Zułów.
6.07.1866 – Polish Uprising beyond Lake Baikal
On the night of 6 to 7 July (24/25 June old style) 1866, 5,000 kilometres east of their homeland, a group of January insurgents sent to Baikal for penal labour stirred up a rebellion, disarmed their guards and tried to forge an escape route to Mongolia.
12.02.1833 – Glass and eye
On 12 February 1833, Aleksander Czekanowski was born in Krzemieniec in Volhynia. He trained as a geologist, but was not given the freedom to pursue his career as he was sent to Siberia at the age of 30 for taking part in the January Uprising.