Senators of the Congress Poland - Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Wincenty Krasi Ski, Micha Gedeon Radziwi, Tomasz Adam Ostrowski (Paperback)

Chapters: Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Wincenty Krasi ski, Micha Gedeon Radziwi, Tomasz Adam Ostrowski, Stanis aw Kostka Zamoyski, Aleksander Stanis aw Potocki, Jozef Wybicki, Micha Kochanowski. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (Polish pronunciation: , Russian: also known, in English, as Adam George Czartoryski; January 14, 1770 July 15, 1861) was a Polish noble, statesman and author. He was the son of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and Izabela Fleming (though he was rumored to have been the fruit of a liaison between Izabela and Russian ambassador to Poland, Nikolai Repnin). Czartoryski was known in Russia as the Russian Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs and was rumored to have been a lover of Louise of Baden, Empress consort to Alexander I of Russia. Czartoryski holds the distinction of having headed, at different times, the governments of two mutually hostile countries. He was de facto Chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers (1804-6), and President of the Polish National Government during the November 1830 Uprising against Imperial Russia. Czartoryski was born in Warsaw, and after a careful education at home by eminent specialists, mostly French, he went abroad in 1786. At Gotha, Czartoryski heard Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read his Iphigeneia in Tauris and made the acquaintance of the dignified Johann Gottfried Herder and "fat little Christoph Martin Wieland." In 1789 Czartoryski visited Great Britain with his mother and was present at the trial of Warren Hastings. On a second visit in 1793 he made many acquaintances among the British aristocracy and studied the British constitution. In the interval between these visits, he fought for his country during the war of the second partition and would subse...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=640363