Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko
Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko (1768–1844) was a Polish nobleman, general, military commander, diplomat and politician.
Also recorded as Eustach Sanguszko-Lubartowicz · Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko
Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko

J. Schorn · Paulina Chrzanowska "Katalog portretów książąt Sanguszków", 1994 · Public domain
- Born
- 1768. · Radzyń Podlaski.
- Died
- 1844. · Slavuta.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Occupation
- historian, military personnel, military officer, politician, animal breeder and poet.
- Fields
- military service, political activity, creative and professional writing and animal breeding.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari.
- Languages
- Polish.
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Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko (1768–1844) was a Polish nobleman, general, military commander, diplomat and politician.
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Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko (1768–1844) was an animal breeder, historian and military officer, among other activities and a national of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire. The animal breeder died in Slavuta.
Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko held the position of Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The animal breeder was active in animal breeding, creative and professional writing and military service.
Languages used include Polish. Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko received Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari.
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Early life
Early life
The recorded working language is Polish. The field of work recorded is military service, political activity and creative and professional writing. Positions recorded include Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari.
Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko was born in 1768 to Hieronim Janusz Sanguszko and Cecylia Usrzula Potocka.
French Royal army
French Royal army
In the years 1780–1786, Sanguszko graduated from the military school of Strasbourg and served in the Régiment Royal-Allemand (together with Stanisław Mokronowski) of the French Royal army.
Four-Year Sejm
Four-Year Sejm
On 3 February 1789, Sanguszko began service in the Crown Army as a captain in the 8th National Cavalry Brigade. On 5 October 1789, he was promoted to major, and on 28 April 1792, to vice-brigadier. He was a representative of the Lublin Voivodeship in the Great Sejm of 1788–1792. Sanguszko partook in the War of the Second Partition where he fought at the Battle of Zieleńce as a cavalry brigadier, receiving the Virtuti Militari in its wake on 23 June. On 29 July 1792, the 24-year-old Sanguszko was promoted to brigadier, having taken over the command of the whole brigade on 25 June. As the Targowica Confederation had won, he joined the Imperial Russian Army to save his goods and possessions from confiscation.
Kościuszko Uprising
Kościuszko Uprising
During the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794 he was a major general and a divisional commander. At the Battle of Szczekociny he saved Kościuszko's life. Then during the siege of Warsaw he was wounded.
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars
He was a member of the general staff of Napoleon Bonaparte during the Russian campaign (with the rank of brigadier general) and took part in the march on Moscow. In the Duchy of Warsaw he was the vice-Regimentarz of the pospolite ruszenie (general call-up). To protect family land holdings in Ukraine, Sanguszko refused to participate in Prince Poniatowski's 1813 campaign, for which the commander-in-chief, an old friend, punished him harshly with a dishonourable discharge from the army.
Congress of Poland
Congress of Poland
After the fall of Napoleon, Sanguszko settled on his ancestral lands that included the battlefield of Zieleńce. There he often pondered on past historic events in which he took part and described his thoughts in his "Memoirs". Between 1817–1820 he was the governor marshal of Volhynia.
Family
Family
On 26 June 1798, in Slavuta, he married Klementyna Czartoryska with whom he had three children: Dorota (1799-1831), Roman (1800-81), and Władysław (1803–70). Earlier on he had been romantically involved with Julia Lubomirska.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1768
Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko was born in 1768 at Radzyń Podlaski.
1844
Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko died in 1844 at Slavuta.
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Radzyń Podlaski.
Birth place
Slavuta.
Death place
Honours
He was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Polish Virtuti Militari and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour.
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- 1.Mikulski, Tadeusz. Oświecenie : hasła osobowe P-Ż, addenda A-O. Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 6, part 1: Oświecenie. 149. 1970.
- 2.Kalendarzyk narodowy y obcy na rok . 1792. . 324. 1791.
- 3.Memoirs
- 4.Marszalska, J. M. Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko i Julia z Lubomirskich Potocka na tle wydarzeń 1794 roku. 1998.
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