Vaclav Pshibylsky ( Polish: Wacław Przybylski ; September 28, 1828 , Vilno - December 25, 1872 , Bucharest ) - Polish writer and revolutionary.
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He graduated from St. Petersburg University (1849) with a degree in philosophy, after which he taught at gymnasiums. Published in Polish periodicals (including in the "Vilna Vestnik" ) with articles on natural sciences. He wrote the libretto for Ludwig Novitsky ’s opera “Night at the Cemetery” (1860, according to Yu. I. Krashevsky ). In 1861 he translated from English the first volume of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe " Uncle Tom's Cabin " (the second volume was translated by Ignacy Ivitsky ). Then he was expelled to Vologda , but was soon liberated [1] and returned to Poland in time for the Polish uprising of 1863 .
He was a member of the interim national government of Poland in two formulations: under the leadership of Karol Majewski (head of the press department, secretary for Lithuanian affairs) and under the leadership of Romuald Traugutt (acting head of the foreign affairs department, secretary for Lithuania); For some time he was also the commandant of Warsaw.
After the suppression of the uprising, managed to escape through Galicia, arrived in Paris as the commissar of Polish revolutionaries. Then he lived in Constantinople , worked in the secretariat of Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha .
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- ↑ Conrad Under Familial Eyes / Ed. by Zdzislaw Najder. - Cambridge University Press, 1983.- P. 67. (English)