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1863: Zygmunt Padlewski, January Uprising rebel

Add comment May 15th, 2018 Headsman

On this date in 1863, Zygmunt Padlewski was shot for rebelling against the Russian empire.

A young St. Petersburg-trained tsarist officer with a patriotic bent — his father had taken part in the November [1830] Uprising against Russian domination — Padlewski (English Wikipedia entry | German | the surprisingly least detailed Polish) spent the early 1860s organizing revolutionary exiles in Paris.

He then put his neck where his mouth was by returning to Warsaw to agitate and, eventually, to assume the leadership of Polish rebels in that area during his own generation’s doomed revolution, the January [1863] Uprising.

Padlewski’s carriage was detained at a checkpoint when he tried to sneak back to Warsaw after a defeat, and his too-liberal bribes excited the suspicion of the Cossack sentries — who searched the traveler and discovered they had a man well worth the capturing.

He was shot at Plock, where a street and a school today bear his names (numerous other cities around Poland also honor Padlewski).

On this day..

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• 1903: Victoriano Lorenzo, cholo - 2019
• Daily Double: Hameln after the war - 2017
• 1946: Ten at Hameln for killing Allied POWs - 2017
• 1815: William Sawyer, guns and roses - 2016
• 1945: George Green, Jr. - 2015
• 1702: Dick Bauf, executioner of his parents - 2014
• 1863: William Francis Corbin and Thomas Jefferson McGraw - 2013
• 2012: Majid Jamali Fashi - 2012
• 1976: Lt. Col. Bukar Dimka and six coup confederates - 2011
• 71 B.C.E.: The followers of Spartacus - 2010
• 1381: Eppelein von Gailingen - 2009
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Tags: 1860s, 1863, january uprising, nationalism, nationalists, plock.may 15, zygmunt padlewski

1864: Romuald Traugutt and the January Uprising leaders

Add comment August 5th, 2009 Headsman

On this date in 1864, the leadership of Poland-Lithuania’s abortive January Uprising against the Russian tsar was hanged before 30,000 at Warsaw Citadel.

Romuald Traugutt depicted (somewhat ironically) on the 20-zloty note of Soviet bloc Poland.

Romuald Traugutt (English Wikipedia link | Polish) had been a decorated Lieutenant Colonel in the Tsarist army, and a heretofore apolitical man — but he resigned shortly after the outbreak of the doomed national uprising to take up sides against Russia.

This installment of the venerable Russians vs. Poles series was characteristically nasty.

In 1863 – Polonia by Jan Matejko, an allegory for the Polish nation is manacled by the Russians.

And it ended the way these affairs have ended these last 400 years or so: Russian victory.

The fallout was severe.

In addition to this day’s batch — Traugutt along with (all Polish Wikipedia links) Rafal Krajewski, Jozef Toczyski, Roman Zulinski and Jan Jezioranski — a further 391 were put to death after the war; tens of thousands were deported to Siberia or otherwise scattered in the vast Romanov empire; a war indemnity tax was imposed; and over three thousand estates in Poland and Lithuania were confiscated.

Traugutt has gained some latter-day support in the Catholic Church for beatification.

On this day..

• 1843: Sarah Dazley - 2020
• 1678: Thomas Hellier, "Groans and Sighs" - 2019
• 1939: Las Trece Rosas - 2018
• 1944: The Wola Massacre begins, during the Warsaw Uprising - 2017
• 1549: The Clyst Heath massacre, during the Prayer Book Rebellion - 2016
• 2008: Jose Medellin, precedent - 2015
• 1943: Red Orchestra members, in the Nazi Paradise - 2014
• 1993: Joseph Paul Jernigan, Visible Human Project subject - 2013
• 1623: Daniel Frank, the first hanging in the USA - 2012
• 1909: Georges-Henri Duchemin, matricide - 2011
• 1775: Maharajah Nandakumar, judicially murdered? - 2010
• 1676: Malin Matsdotter and Anna Simonsdotter, ending a witch hunt - 2008

Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Arts and Literature,Capital Punishment,Cycle of Violence,Death Penalty,Execution,Famous,Hanged,Heads of State,History,Martyrs,Mass Executions,Occupation and Colonialism,Poland,Power,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Russia,Soldiers,Treason

Tags: 1860s, 1864, august 5, january uprising, jozef toczyski, rafal krajewski, roman zulinski, romuald traugutt, warsaw