- Jarosław Dąbrowski
revolutionary Nationalist and general. Harv|Zdrada|1973|p=9.
Biography
Youth
Dąbrowski was born in
Zhytomyr , currently part ofUkraine . He was the offspring of the old Polish noble family Radwan Dąbrowski-Żądło. He bore the Clan Radwan arms. His father was Wiktor Radwan Dąbrowski-Żądło. His mother was Zofia née Falkenhagen-Zaleska. Harv|Zdrada|1973|pp=9-10.Military career
In 1845 at age 9, Jarosław Radwan Dąbrowski-Żądło joined the
Russian army , enrolling in the officer training corp at the Brest-Litovsk Fortress, where he spent 8 years. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Cadet Corps in 1855. He fought as a Russian officer against mountaineer uprisings in theCaucasus . In 1859 he enrolled in the General Staff Academy in St. Petersburg. There he was one of the leaders of the secret "Officers' Committee of the First Army". Members included several hundred Russian and Polish officers, cooperating with the revolutionary "Zemlya i Volya" (Land and Liberty) movement. Harv|Lerski|1996|p=103. He became involved in the preparation of theJanuary Uprising , but was arrested onAugust 14 1862 , and exiled to Siberia for his participation in a plot against the Tsar, Alexander II. In 1865, he escaped and fled to France.On the barricades in Paris
by French National Government shocked liberal society throughout Europe. Nevertheless, the shame of Dąbrowski having associated himself so closely with socialism and revolution was such that his two sons were driven to commit suicide, and his brother was driven to crime in exile. Harv|Billington|1980|p=613.
Legacy
panish Civil War
In the
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), - theDabrowski Battalion and various Brigade-strength units (known in Polish as theDąbrowszczacy ) - were named in his honour. SeePolish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War .Poland
Several schools and roads are named after him in Poland; among them most notable is [http://www.wat.edu.pl/ The Military Technical Academy in
Warsaw , Poland,] [ [http://szkolnictwo.pl/index.php?id=D00409 "Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna im. Jarosława Dąbrowskiego"] , [http://szkolnictwo.pl/ Ogólnopolski Katalog Szkolnictwa www.szkolnictwo.pl] . Retrieved onJune 14 ,2007 .] named in memorial of him."Polish 200-
"(Reverse):"
Notes
He should not be confused with
Jan Henryk Dąbrowski , (Coat-of-Arms/Herb: Własnego Dąbrowski), after whom the Polish national anthem ("Mazurek Dąbrowskiego ") is named.Footnotes
References
* Citation
last=Billington
first=James H.
title=Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
publisher=Basic Books
place=New York
year=1980 .* Citation
last=Lerski
first=Jerzy J.
authorlink=Jerzy Jan Lerski
title=Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945
publisher=Greenwood Press
place=Westport, Connecticut
year=1996 .* Citation
last=Zdrada
first=Jerzy
title=JAROSŁAW DĄBROWSKI: 1836 -- 1871
publisher=Wydawnictwo Literackie
place=Kraców, POLSKA
year=1973.ee also
*
*James H. Billington External links
* [http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/bios/preserve/billington.html The Library of Congress: James Hadley Billington]
* [http://www.inib.uj.edu.pl/kadra/zdrada.htm Dr hab. Jerzy Zdrada, prof. UJ]
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