1. Zygmunt Sierakowski's mother dressed him as a girl, wanting to avoid him being drafted into the Cantonist Battalion as a son of a rebel.
16 Facts About Zygmunt Sierakowski
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Zygmunt Sierakowski was influenced by his maternal grandmother, the widow of Kosciuszko insurrection veteran Wiktor Morawski.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski then worked as a tutor at the home of Aleksander Piotrowski.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski spent his vacations near Vilnius and in Volhynia, where he came into contact with the Ukrainian and Lithuanian peasants.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski was sent first to the Novopetrovskoye fort on the Caspian Sea, then in September 1849 to Uralsk, and in October 1850 to Orenburg.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski used the trip to establish contacts with Polish emigres, as well as to establish contacts with European politicians and rally them to the cause of Polish liberation.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski spoke with Henry Palmerston, Napoleon III, Camillo Cavour, Alexander Herzen, Giuseppe Mazini, and Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski published the results of his work on criminal-military legislation in Morskoy Sbornik.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski was married with his wife Apolonia Dalewska in Kedainiai, present-day Lithuania August 11,1862.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski then went to Warsaw, and from there, together with Jakub Gieysztor, the leader of the Whites in Lithuania, to Vilnius.
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The next day, at Gudiskis, Zygmunt Sierakowski's forces, reinforced by Mackevicius' unit, continued the fight.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski was taken to one of the nearby manors, where the Russians captured him the next night.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski was transported to Vilnius and placed in a hospital.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski's mother went to St Petersburg to ask for the execution to be postponed until the child was born.
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On June 27,1863, Zygmunt Sierakowski was hanged in Lukiskes Square in Vilnius.
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Zygmunt Sierakowski's body was secretly buried on Gediminas' Hill.