Maria Piotrowiczowa was born in 1839 and killed on 24 February 1863.
12 Facts About Maria Piotrowiczowa
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Maria Piotrowiczowa's parents were Zygmunt Rogolinski, an insurgent of 1831, and Ansberta Badenska.
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At the age of 17, Maria Piotrowiczowa was married to Konstanty Piotrowicz, a teacher from Chocianowice.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa was deeply affected by news about the defeats, arrests, and imprisonments of insurrectionary troops and decided to support the fighting in person.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa cut her hair and donned an insurrectionary czamara.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa fought to the very end, instead of escaping from the battlefield.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa rejected the suggestion of surrender, given to her by Russian officers, because she recognized that such an attitude was incompatible with the dignity and honor of a Pole.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa defended herself with a revolver and a scythe.
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The tragedy was enhanced by the fact that Maria Piotrowiczowa was pregnant, later it turned out that she was bearing twins.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa took a candle out of his pocket, lit it, and put it at the feet of the heroine, and then he moved back to the corner of the chamber and, resting on his saber, was crying.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa died at the hands of a wife of an insurrectionary town commander, Mrs Zajaczkowska, repeating the prayer that he had asked her to say.
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Maria Piotrowiczowa's death caused a sensation in the entire country and was among the reasons why on 16 April 1863 the War Department of the National Government banned women from being accepted into front-line duty.