Peter Stsegegeny ( Polish: Piotr Ściegienny ; January 19 (31), 1801 , the village of Bilcha , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - November 6, 1890 , Lublin , Kingdom of Poland , Russian Empire ) - Polish Catholic priest , revolutionary .
| Peter Stegenny | |
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| Piotr Ściegienny | |
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| Date of Birth | January 31, 1801 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | November 6, 1890 (89 years old) |
| A place of death | Lublin |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 memory
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born on January 19/31, 1801 in a peasant family in the village of Bilcha near the city of Kielce . In 1827 he entered the Order of PRists , was a teacher at a school in Opole . In 1833, he assumed the post of vicar of the church in the village of Vilkolaz . In March 1844 he was appointed priest of the Khodelsky parish.
Becoming a priest, Stegenny from the late 1830s. He began revolutionary propaganda among the peasants, using works specially written by him (The Golden Book, or The History of the Human Race, Aphorisms on the Structure of the Human Society, etc.), as well as a fake papal bull ( Pope Gregory 's Message to Farmers, Craftsmen, Peasants , philistines and soldiers, to lackeys, clerks and economists sent from Rome ”), which condemned social inequality and exploitation, proved the justice of the revolution of peasants and philistines against nobles and kings, put forward the slogan of unity ordinary people of different nationalities. Stegenny's program laid the foundation for the secret peasant organization he had created; in addition, Stegensky established contact with the Warsaw group of the Commonwealth of Polish People .
The revolutionary peasant organization created by Steggen prepared in October 1844 an uprising in the Lublin and Radom provinces of the Kingdom of Poland . But among the conspirators was a scammer, and on the eve of the uprising, Stsegenny and his closest associates were arrested.
The court sentenced Stegenny to death by hanging, which was already replaced on the scaffold with indefinite hard labor and deprivation of the right to perform the duties of a priest. Strozen served his penal servitude in the Aleksandrovsky Plant of the Nerchinsky District of the Irkutsk Province from 1846 to 1856, when, according to the manifesto of Alexander II , published on the day of the coronation, Stsegenny was released from hard labor, but "left for residence in Eastern Siberia."
While in Siberia, Stegenny was one of the leaders of the organization of Polish exiles, called the Ogul. The organization’s goal was “preservation of nationality, morality and mutual fraternal assistance between its members”.
In 1858, Mr .. was brought to live in Perm , where he lived until 1863 under the public supervision of the police. In 1863, he was transferred to Solikamsk , where he lived until 1871, when he was allowed to return to his homeland, where he served as a priest in one of the parishes until his death. He died in Lublin and was buried in a cemetery on Lipova Street .
Memory
Mentioned in the song of Jan Petrzak Żeby Polska była Polską ( Rus. To Poland was Poland ) ( 1981 ):
| Zrzucał uczeń portret cara, Ksiądz Ściegienny wznosił modły |