Krasinsky, Michal Jerome

Descended from the noble family of Krasinsky coat of arms Slepovron . The third son of a castellan of Vizna Jan Krassinsky and Elzbety Tereza Soltyk. The elder brother of Kamenetz Bishop Adam Stanislav Krasinsky ( 1714 - 1800 ).

The Polish king Augustus III appointed Michal Krasinski as captain of the crown troops. He was elected ambassador to the Seimas from the Sandomierz Voivodeship in 1748 and 1750 , from the Ruzhansky land in 1756 , 1758 and 1760 . In 1758 he received the position of sub- commerce Ruzhansky . In 1761 he received permission to recruit armored banners. In 1763 he participated in the congress of the hetman party in Bialystok . In 1764 he signed the election of Stanislav Augustus Poniatovsky , but remained an opponent of the new king. In 1767, Michal Krasinsky joined the Radom Confederation in Greater Poland.

At the end of 1767 - the beginning of 1768, together with Józef Pulawski, he led the preparations for the uprising in the Podolsk Voivodeship. On February 29, 1768, he proclaimed an act on the establishment of a general confederation in Bar and with the support of Karol Stanislav Radzivill Pan Kohanku was elected its marshal.

On March 5, 1768, Michal Krasinsky issued a wagon to the Polish population, appealed for help to the Ottoman Empire, with the support of Turkish troops to expel the Russians from the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

On June 23, 1768, the insurgent detachments of Michal Krasinsky, Joachim Potocki , Jozef Pulawski , after suffering a series of defeats from the Russian troops, were forced to retreat from Podolia to the Turkish frontier possessions near Khotyn . On September 11, Michal Krasinsky transferred to Joachim Potocki the position of regimentary (commander-in-chief) of the Bar Confederation . October 12, published a manifesto in which he protested against the Russian occupation of the Commonwealth. At the beginning of August 1769, at the head of the confederate cavalry unit (900 people), unsuccessfully tried to come to the aid of the Turkish garrison in Khotin , besieged by the Russian army. From December 22 to November 25, 1770, together with his two-thousand detachment, he stayed in the Turkish fortress of Varna, where on April 9, 1770 he signed a manifesto on the detronization of Stanislav Ponyatovsky .

After the defeat of the Bar Confederation, Michal Krasinsky left for Bavaria and Switzerland . In 1777 he returned to his homeland and received a pardon. He was buried in Krasna in Mazovia.

Michal Krasinsky was married to Alexander Zaluska. Their kids:

• Marianna Krasinskaya
• Aniela Krasinskaya
• Joanna Krasinskaya
• Adam Krasinsky (died 1805 ), headman Tsekhanovsky since 1762
• Jan Krasinsky ( 1756 - 1790 ), the warden of Opinogorsky and the captain of the people's cavalry, the father of Polish, French and Russian General Vincent Krasinsky