Wacław Sieroszewski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish writer
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Place of Birth: Wólka Kozłowska, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Wacław Sieroszewski
- Waclaw Kajetan Sieroszewski (1858 – 1945) was a Polish writer, Polish Socialist Party activist, and soldier in the World War I-era Polish Legions (decorated with the Virtuti Militari).
- For activities subversive of the Russian Empire, he had spent many years in Siberian exile. Sieroszewski's Siberian experiences became the subjects of his many stories and novels — Na kresach lasów (At the Edge of the Woods, 1894), Dno nedzy (The Depths of Misery, 1900), Risztau (1899), Ucieczka (The Escape, 1904), Zamorski diabel (The Overseas Devil, 1900).
- He also authored the popular Bajki (Fables, 1910).
- His 12 lat w kraju Jakutów (12 years in the Yakut country, 1900) provides the first extensive ethnographic account of the Yakut people. Whilst in Paris in 1910, he heard that Jan Waclaw Machajski had been asking his friend Stefan Zeromski to provide a reference so that Machajski's wife would be employed by Kazimierz Dluski.
- Having heard rumours circulated by the Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia that Machajski was a terrorist, Sieroszewski wrote to Dluski warning against getting involved with the Machajskis.
- When this letter fell into the hands of the police, they promptly arrested Machajski.
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