Karolina Sobańska
Countess Karolina Rozalia Tekla | |
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| Coat of arms | Krzywda |
| Born | 25 December 1795 Pohrebysche |
| Died | 21 July 1885 (aged 89) Paris, France |
| Noble family | Rzewuski (by birth) House of Sobański (by marriage) |
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| Mother | Justyna Rdułtowska h. Drogosław |
Countess Karolina Rozalia Tekla Sobańska (née Rzewuska) (25 December 1795 – 21 July 1885) was a Polish agent and noblewoman. She was a Russian agent, the mistress of the Tsarist general Jan de Witte (1781–1840) and a reputed lover of Poland's national poet Adam Mickiewicz.[1]
Life[]
Karolina Sobańska belonged to the well-known szlachta family of Rzewuski. Sister of Ewelina Hańska, wife of Honoré de Balzac.
Karolina's first spouse was a Russian officer, Stefan Cerkovic. In 1814, she married marszałek Hieronim Sobański h. Junosza and had one child:[2][3] She had one daughter during her second marriage: Kostancja Honorata Sobańska (1814–1838), married to Prince .
During the November Uprising of 1831, Jan de Witte ruled Poland under war laws, and gave her the task to act as a spy in Russian service among to Polish rebels in Dresden i Saxony, a task she reportedly performed well, being able to forward several useful reports to the Russians.[4] Considered a traitor in Russia and not quite trusted by the Russian Czar regardless of her service as a spy, she settled in Paris in France in 1836.
Her third spouse was a Frenchman named Jules Lacroix.
Bibliography[]
- Polski Słownik Biograficzny t. 39 s. 411
References[]
- ^ Black Sea (1995) by Neal Ascherson, pp. 150-165
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2013-12-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Karolina Beydo-Rzewuska h. Krzywda".
- ^ Jerzy Stanisław Majewski: Warszawa nieodbudowana: Królestwo Polskie w latach 1815-1840. Warszawa: Veda Agencja Wydawnicza, 2009, s. 156-157. ISBN 978-83-61932-00-0.
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