Coat of arms Nalecz Name Edward Raczynski | Family Raczynski | |
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Consorts Maria Beatrix KrasinskaRoza Potocka Father Roger Maurycy Raczynski Mother Maria Ernesta Gotschall Born January 21, 1847Dresden ( 1847-01-21 ) Died May 6, 1926(1926-05-06) (aged 79)Krakow | ||
Count Edward Aleksander Raczyński (1847–1926) was a Polish nobleman, landowner, patron of the arts, and founder of the Raczyński Art Gallery in Rogalin.
Life
Raczyński was an adventurer and world-traveller. After the death of his father in 1864, at the age of 17 he escaped to Turkey with a friend for a few months, got badly wounded in the 1867 Battle of Mentana, then in 1869 went to Chile, then back to France in 1870 to take part in a war, and in 1874 settled in Kraków at the residence of his aunt Katarzyna Potocka.
He became a star of the local society, and was featured in Jan Matejko's Battle of Grunwald (painting) in the lower right-hand section, as the young bearded man with the white bandage on his head wound.
References
Edward Aleksander Raczyński Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA