Wacław Sieroszewski

He also authored the popular Bajki (Fables, 1910). His 12 lat w kraju Jakutów (12 years in the Yakut country, 1900) provides the first extensive ethnographic account of the Yakut people. Sieroszewski visited Korea (then the Korean Empire) in 1903. He arrived via boat to Busan, then traveled through the peninsula with an interpreter, speaking with locals on the way to the capital Seoul. He published a book on his experiences in the peninsula in 1905. The trip appeared to make an impression on him, and he would frequently mention Korea in later interviews. He once likened Korea's political situation, in which multiple foreign powers were encroaching on it, to Poland's. Whilst in Paris in 1910, he heard that Jan Wacław Machajski had been asking his friend Stefan Żeromski to provide a reference so that Machajski's wife would be employed by Kazimierz Dłuski. Having heard rumours circulated by the Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia that Machajski was a terrorist, Sieroszewski wrote to Dłuski warning against getting involved with the Machajskis. When this letter fell into the hands of the police, they promptly arrested Machajski.

The recorded working language is Polish and Russian. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, travel and ethnography. Positions recorded include Member of the Senate of the Republic of Poland and member of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic. Distinctions recorded are Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari, Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

• Name — Wacław Sieroszewski • Office1 — President of the Polish Academy of Literature • Term Start1 — 1933 • Term End1 — 1939 • Successor1 — position abolished • Predecessor1 — position established • Office2 — Member of the Senate of Poland • Term Start2 — 1935 • Term End2 — 1938 • Office3 — President of the Trade Union of Polish Writers • Term Start3 — 1927 • Term End3 — 1930 • Predecessor3 — Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski • Born — 24 August 1858 • Birthplace — Gmina Tłuszcz, Russian Empire • Died — 20 April 1945 • Place of death — Piaseczno, Poland • Resting Place — Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw • Party — Polish Socialist Party • Awards — Virtuti Militari • Allegiance — Austria-Hungary • Branch — Austro-Hungarian Army • Unit — 1st Uhlans Regiment of Polish Legions • Service Years — 1914-1915 • Battles — World War One

Under the Second Polish Republic, Sieroszewski was a senator, and president of the Union of Polish Writers (Związek Zawodowy Literatów Polskich, 1927–30) and the Polish Academy of Literature (Polska Akademia Literatury, 1933–1939).

• Exile to Siberia (1930)

Wacław Sieroszewski worked in creative and professional writing, travel, ethnography and political activity. Recorded positions include Member of the Senate of the Republic of Poland and member of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic. He belonged to Związek Sybiraków and Związek Zawodowy Literatów Polskich.

Wacław Sieroszewski is recorded as having received Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari and Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.