Eugeniusz Niebelski
His name was Wiktor Mikulicz and he looked like a typical Sybirak in his old age – with a thick, black-grey beard and the look of a native. Years ago, during my stay in Irkutsk, his photograph was given to me by a friendly Siberian-Buriat woman, an employee of the National History Museum who knew what material I was looking for. There was a writing in Russian on the back of the photograph: among other things, he was a participant in the 1863 Polish uprising and in the 1866 circumpolar uprising. For me, it was a total surprise at the time.
Eugeniusz Niebelski is a professor at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Read the text in Polish here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/historia-jednej-fotografii-i-polskiego-zeslanca-rzecz-o-polaku-ktory-sie-zsybiraczyl/