Historical calendar: anniversary of the arrest by the Tsarian authorities of the leaders of the January Uprising, Romuald Traugutt. The possessor gave him up... Jew.
Today in our calendar, we will look at the life and activities of this man, and the circumstances accompanying his acceptance.
Romuald Traugutt came from the middle-income Polish nobility from Polesia. The Traugutt household was native to Saxony and underwent polonization in the first half of the 18th century. Romuald's parents were Louis and Alojza from Błock's house, having a tiny land property in Grodzieńszczyń.
He grew up in an atmosphere of very family, Catholic and patriotic. He was curious in history, and frequently talked about it with older people who remembered the pre-election period and participated in the Napoleonic Wars and the November uprising. He wanted to act like them for the sake of Poland, unfortunately the dismemberment reality did not service this.
He graduated from Russian junior advanced school in Swisłocz and then unsuccessfully tried to get into engineering studies in St. Petersburg. The civilian career fiasco caused him to effort his hand in the military. He joined the bomb squad and then began studying at an officer's school. In 1848 he passed the final exams, after which he and Ivan Paskiewicz's army moved to Hungary to suppress Spring Peoples.
He was shocked erstwhile he came to fight Polish volunteers, but until the end of the run he did his soldier duties conscientiously. For this he was awarded an apartment, an order and a considerable sum of money. In 1852, he married Anna Pikel, a Lutheran female who converted to Catholicism. He had a fewer children with her. He lived in Żelechow, where his unit was stationed. After the outbreak of the Crimean War, he went south. He participated in the siege of Sevastopol and another fighting against the British-French expedition. He promoted himself to captain and worked at the staff.
In 1856 he briefly moved with his household to Kharkiv, where he served as an army treasurer. 2 years later, he went to St. Petersburg to teach applicable cognition of fortification at the General Staff School. At the same time, he deepened his military skills on his own, reading home and abroad work on the subject. At the turn of 1859 and 1860, his wife and 2 children died.
After that loss, Romuald had a intellectual breakdown. He resigned from his work in the Russian capital and returned to Poland, where he met Antonina Kościuszkówna, his second wife. In 1862 he finished his service in the Tsar army, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. In the country, the insurgent atmosphere grew, but Traugutt besides well knew Russia's military possible and strength. He opposed the fight, which in his opinion had to end with another pogrom of Poles. He besides supported the actions of the White organization and average reforms of Alexander Wielopolski.
He felt that it was essential to prepare well for the fight for independence, to make economical possible and to wait for a favourable global situation. He was a individual very much wanted by the insurgent command due to considerable combat experience, but for a long time he refused to take hold of the weapon. He was not persuaded until April 1863. He then headed the Kobrin branch, with which he fought respective battles with the Russians.
At the end of the summertime he made his way to Warsaw and met with representatives of the National Government. They promoted him to General and ordered him to go on a diplomatic mission to France, where he was to search armed assistance for the insurgents. He gained nothing, for neither Paris nor any another European capital, but a declaration of kindness, intended to engage in the Polish turmoil.
After returning to the country, the government found itself in a state of conflict and almost complete decay, caused by the arrest of any leaders. He so undertook a mission to save the uprising, becoming his dictator. First, he completely classified the leadership structures, which was to make it hard for them to figure out by the Tsar police. He took on the nickname “Michael Czarnecki ” and claimed to be a merchant from Galicia.
He tried to reorganize the armed forces and make a powerful war machine. In the field, independent troops were to cooperate with each another in order to better circulation of information and maximize enemy losses. Traugutt wanted to turn them into human resources, which would in the long word become the nucleus of the regular army. In his quest to tie the peasants to the origin of the uprising, he appointed field delegates to accelerate the expropriation reform.
He besides importantly reduced the activities of the safety Guard, or alleged daggers. These were revolutionary fanatics who, in addition to the protection of the National Government and the elimination of traitors and prominent officials of the possessive authorities, were sowing terror, making brutal attacks on Russian Kingdom residents. In addition, they were celebrated for their ruthlessness in gaining food and pacification of full villages, if there was even a trivial suspicion that their inhabitants were collaborating with the Moscals.
Traugutt's reforms were late, but had affirmative effects in the form of revival of insurgent action. Unfortunately, on April 11, 1864, at 2 a.m., he was arrested. As it turned out later, the Jew, Arthur Goldman, released him. During the investigation, the dictator did not uncover the insurgent plans or the names of his associates. He was acting like a statesman to the end. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 5 August 1864.
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