Józef Andrzej Załuski
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Józef Andrzej Załuski was a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Kiev, a sponsor of learning and culture, and a renowned bibliophile. A member of the Polish nobility, bearing the hereditary Junosza coat-
Bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founder of Poland's first public library
Załuski Library – Poland's first public library
Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin
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Prince Nikolai or Nicholas Vasilyevich Repnin was a Russian statesman and general from the Repnin princely family who played a key role in the dissolution of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; the le
Józef Andrzej Załuski
…well as the interference of the Russian empire in Polish domestic matters. For that, in 1767 (at the Repnin Sejm) he was arrested by Russian ambassador Nicholas Repnin, and until 1773 he was imprisoned in Kaluga, Russia. The greatest passion of Załuski's brothers was books. Together with his brother Andrzej Stanisław…
Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin
Prince Nicolas von Repnin 1779
The gates leading to Repnin's country residence Vorontsovo near Moscow.