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Urszula Głowacka- Maksymiuk |
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25 PLN (paperback) 35 PLN (hard cover) |
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"Alexsandra from Czartoryski family - Princess Ogińska"
Urszula Głowacka-Maksymiuk, a many years' Director of State Archive in Siedlce since a long time has conducted research on the person of Aleksandra from Czartoryski family Ogińska, an owner and a benefactress of Siedlce. In a presently published biography of the princess she has shown the fruits of her many years' seeking. The book consists of four chapters (''House, Family and Growing up'', Lady Underchancellor Sapieżyna'', ''Lady Hetman Ogińska'', ''Lady of Siedlce'') and annexes. In the last chapters were publised important source materials - the king August III privilege for Siedlce from 1746, the act of selling shops to the Lewkowicz family in 1787 which took place in town hall in Siedlce, orders given by Princess Alexsandra to a factory writer dating from 1791 and a letter Princess Aleksandra to the king Stanisław August from 1791. This publication, despite its popular form, is directed not only to a wider range of receivers but also to the group of professional historians. Elegant get-up of the book needs to be mentioned as it additionally increases its value (the biography of Princess
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