JAWORSKI H.
MEMOIRS OF THE CAUCASUS
Parts 1-3 [complete in 1 volume].
Part I. Historical outline of the Caucasus. - Part II. Episodes of Caucasian life. - Part III. Ajchanym.
Poznań 1877, Nakładem I. K. Żupański, Handke and Chocieszyński Printing House; pp. [4] 105; 107; 142, format: 14.5x21 cm
"Among the Polish exiles in the Caucasus, Hippolyt Jaworski, a participant in both Polish uprisings and a fervent supporter of the independence of the homeland, can be counted among a different kind of diarists. At the same time, Jaworski completely supported Russia's policy in the Caucasus and the war that Russia waged there, he considered it a continuation of the struggle between Christian knights and Muslims in the borderlands of former Poland."
Source: Alexander Bogolubov, "Poles in the Caucasus in the 19th Century in the Diary of the Period"; Culture Avenue
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