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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

A Hero of Both Nations

The second half of the 18th century was critical to two great nations, namely the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania and the United States of America. It began shaping the global balance of power into the world as we know it today. 


After 800 years of impressive growth and expansion, Poland was crumbling under its weight. Weakened, it was stabbed by Russia, which eventually morphed like a supernova into a significant world-wide power. Meanwhile, the United States challenged the Great Britain empire for the domination of American colonies and ultimately the world. 


For fifteen years of the gigantic struggle, 1764-1779, which shook the entire world, the nations of Poland and the United States were intimately connected through one person. A hero for both countries, Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski (1745-1779), a noble person of Ślepowron coat-of-arms, fought with expertise, bravery, honor, and distinction for both Poland and the United States. 


Pulaski was a mortal enemy to the most powerful monarchs and a dear friend to others. Love and betrayal were subtly used as weapons among royals and reached Kaz. His story helps to better understand the complexity of the global geopolitical tensions of today’s world. Let us follow Kazimierz for these fifteen years. 


We will call him Kaz.

Warka Estate + Pulaski Museum

In the 18th century, the Warka Estate belonged to Joseph Pulaski, Casimir’s father, District Governor of Warka, lawyer, politician, and the first marshal of troops who took part in the Bar Confederation. This is where Kaz spent his childhood and attended the parish school. 

Warka Estate Virtual Tour

Here in Warka, decisions were made about all family assets. A strong economy of the Commonwealth based on the export of food products and raw materials guaranteed sizable profits for the Pułaskis. Their cattle and grain reached the markets of German principalities, Sweden, France, and England.


Book Excerpt: Chapter 3, p.73

Over 100 Historical Characters in the Book

Alim: Tartar fighter from Pułaski security outfit in Podole

Asher: Tartar fighter from Pułaski security outfit in Podole

Aydar: Tartar fighter from Pułaski security outfit in Podole

George Baylor: aide de camp of George Washington, commander of 3rd Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons

Paul Bentalou: Captain in Pulaski Legion

Theodorick Bland: Commander of 1st Continental Light Dragoons, a politician from Virginia

Ignacy Bohusz: Member of Bar Confederation

James Boyd: Carolina volunteer to Pulaski Legion

Franciszek Klemens Branicki: Polish magnate, French count, leader of Targowica Confederation

Jan Klemens Branicki: Great Crown Hetman, owner of 12 towns, 257 villages and 17 palaces.

Joseph Brant: Mohawk Indian Chief, British military officer, and Christion missionary

William Breen: A dragoon in Pulaski Legion, teaches Kaz about the Haudenosaunee tribes.

Heinrich count von Brühl: Polish-Saxon diplomat, controlled Saxony and Poland as the most powerful administrator for King Augustus III court

Pafnucy Brzeziński: Pauline prior of Częstochowa, famous orator

John Butler: British Loyalist, leader of Butler Rangers, militia on the northern frontier in New York during the American Revolutionary War

Walter Butler: British Loyalist, military officer, lawyer in Albany, NY.

Archibald Campbell: Governor of Georgia, Jamaica, and Madras. Won the Battle of Savannah

Canaletto: Nickname of Bernardo Belotto, an Italian painter of Warszawa

Catherine II: The Tsarina of Russia

James Curry: Sergeant Major of the Charleston Grenadiers, betrayed the Colonials at Savannah

Stefan Czarniecki: Field Hetman of the Crown, voivode of Kijów

Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski: Prince, runner up for the crown of Poland, later the commander of the General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland under Napoleon Bonaparte

Damir: Tartar fighter from Pułaski security outfit in Podole

Comte d'Estaing: Admiral, French Commander at the Siege of Savannah

Alexander Dimitriev: Lover of Catherine II

Ivan Grigoriewicz Drewitz: Russian General, in the Seven Year War and against the Bar Confederacy, known for cruelty and stealing

Charles Dumouriez: French advisor to the Bar Confederacy

Empress Elizabeth: Empress of Russia, daughter of Tsar Peter the Great and Polish Marta Helena Skowrońska.

Paweł Esterhazy: General of Paulines at Jasna Góra

Patrick Ferris: A landowner Kaz met at Marblehead

Kevin Fleck: Infantry soldier at Pulaski Legion

Benjamin Franklin: Founding Rather of the United States

Frederick II the Great: King of Prussia

Robert Frost: Scottish soldier serving the Pulaskis

Samuel Greig: Scottish born Russian Admiral

John Hathorn: Continental army officer, politician

William Howe: Major-General, British commander at Brandywine Creek

Agrippa Hull: Free African American, adjutant to Tadeusz Kościuszko

Ilgiz: Tartar fighter from Pułaski security outfit in Podole

Israel: Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, a Jewish mystic and healer from Poland, founder of Hasidic Judaism

Marek Jadnołowicz: Carmelite friar, spiritual leader of the Bar Confederacy  

Jeffrey Johnson: Soldier at Valley Forge who froze to death

Emperor Joseph II: Holy Roman Emperor

Herman Karl Keyserling: Count, Russian diplomat

Wilhelm Knyphausen: Commander of Hessian auxiliaries on behalf of Great Britain. Fought at Brandywine Creek.

Marcin Konicki: Szlachcic kidnapped by the Russians for the killing of a Russian officer who was burning his village.

Tadeusz Kościuszko: Polish and American hero, engineer, and statesman. Fought in American Continental Army and led Kościuszko Uprising in Poland

Józef Kościuszko: Brother of Tadeusz, fought as Bar Confederate.

Jan Kuźma Kosiński: Bar Confederate who kidnapped and then freed King Stan

Michael Kovats: Hungarian officer of the Pułaski Legion

Klimek: Polish highlander leading Kaz to Niedzica castle

Adam Stanisław Krasiński: Leader of the Bar Confederation, Bishop of Kamieniec, President of the Crown Tribunal

Marquis Lafayette: French aristocrat, commanding Colonial troops during the Revolutionary War, regarded as a hero for The United States and France.

Alexander Lanskoy: Lover of Catherine the Great

Charles Henry Lee: General of the Continental Army and Colonel of the Polish Army in service of King Stan

Rafał Leszczyński: Father of Polish King Stanisław I Leszczyński

Stanisław I Leszczyński: King of Poland

Władysław Łubieński: Archbishop of Lwów, Interrex after the death of King August III and the election of King Stanisław II August

Walenty Łukawski: One of three Bar Confederates who organized the kidnapping of King Stan

Stephen Moylan: Commander of the 4th Continental Light Dragoons, the first to write "United States of America" in a letter. Secretary and Aide to General Washington.

Kazimierz Ogiński: Polish nobleman, military commander, musician, composer

Grigory Orłov: Prince, led the coup to assassinate Tsar Peter III and install Empress Catherine II. Catherine's lover.

Tsar Peter III: Tsar of Russia, murdered by his wife Catherine II

Stanisław II August Poniatowski: King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

Grigori Potemkin: Prince, Catherine II's lover, military leader, statesman

Augustin Prevost: Major-General, British commander in the Siege of Savannah

Anna Protasova: Countess, Russian lady-in-waiting, confidant of Catherine II, engaged in Catherine's sexual exploits

Kazimierz (Kaz) Pułaski: Polish American hero, military commander, Colonel of the Bar Confederation, Brigadier-General of the Continental Army, honorific Commander of Horse 

Józef Pułaski: Count, father of Kazimierz Pułaski, crown attorney, landowner

Franciszek Ksawery Pułaski: Kaz’s brother

Antoni Pułaski: Kaz’s brother

Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł: Master Sword Bearer of Lithuania, Marshall of the Bar Confederation

Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin: Russian Prince, Minister plenipotentiary in Warszawa, Poland

Valery Riazin: Captain, Russian military who kidnapped Polish senators and fought Kaz.

David Rogers: Continental militia volunteer in Pułaski Legion, Kaz saved his life by pulling him from under a heavy log.

Claude Rulhière: French writer and historian, recommended Kaz to Franklin in Paris

John Rutledge: Governor of South Carolina

Piotr Rumyantsev: Lover of Catherine II

Seweryn Rzewuski: Polish Senator, son of Wacław, kidnapped by Russians

Wacław Rzewuski: Polish Senator, Crown Field Hetman kidnapped by Russians

Sergei Saltykov: Lover of Catherine II, she implied that Sergei was the father of her son.

Paweł Sapieha: Voivode of Vitebsk, Polish military commander

Elisha Sheldon: Colonel in the American Colonial Army

Kajetan Ignacy Sołtyk: Bishop of Kijów and Kraków, Senator, kidnapped by Russians

Curt von Stedingk: Swedish Count, at the Siege of Savannah commanded the left column attacking Spring Hill Redoubt

Stanisław Strawiński: Bar Confederate who prepared the kidnapping of King Stan

Subutai: Mongolian General who attacked Kraków in 1243

John Sullivan: General of the Continental Army, leader of Sullivan Expedition

Surma: Cossack who served Pułaskis at Zazulińce

Helena Szafraniec: Kaz’s love who resided at the Pieskowa Skała castle

Stanisław Szczuka: Polish szlachcic, secretary of King Jan III Sobieski, built Winiary residence

Tom: Kaz's mentor, horseman, swordsman

Fyodor Ushakov: Russian Admiral

Michał Walewski: Bar Confederate, captured Kraków with Kaz

George Washington: Founding Father of the United States, Commander of the Continental Army

Carl Christian Joseph Wettin: Son of Polish King Augustus III, Duke of Courland and Semigallia

Franciszka Wettin Krasińska: Wife of Carl Christian Wettin, Duchess Consort

Franciszek Wielopolski: Count, owner of the Pieskowa Skała castle, opponent of the Bar Confederacy

Sir Charles William: British Ambassador to Russia. He introduced future King Stan to future Empress Catherine and promoted their romance.

Andrzej Stanisław Załuski: Polish Senator, Bishop of Kijów, kidnapped by Russians

Józef Zaremba: Bar Confederate, commander of Jasna Góra with Kaz

Pyotr Zavadovsky: Count, Russian statesman, favorite lover of Catherin II

Jan Zieliński: Captain in Pułaski Legion, Kaz’s cousin

Semyon Zorich: Lover of Catherine II, Lieutenant-General

Platon Zubov: Last lover of Catherine II

 

 

Eighty-nine historical and sixteen fictional characters interact on the pages of Kaz, creating a fast-paced narrative with plenty of suspense, drama, and emotion. They help us understand the complex relationship between people and countries they inhabited on the continents of Europe and America in the 18th century.

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