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Karol Wędziagolski son of Michał and Korolina Sosonko
(born September 8, 1885 in Jaworów, died July 20, 1974 in São Paulo, Brazil)
– Polish revolutionary, politician, memoirist, associated with Boris Savinkov.
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Biography
He was born in the Jaworów estate, in the then Vilnius district of the Vilnius governorate, into an old noble family. In his youth, he was associated with radical socialist Russian organizations. A graduate of the Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, he then worked as an official in St. Petersburg. After the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire, and fought on the Austrian front, mainly in the Carpathians. After the February Revolution and the overthrow of tsarism, he became closely associated with the anti-Bolshevik Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRs) and personally with one of its leaders, Boris Savinkov. He was elected commissar and chairman of the revolutionary committee of the 8th Army (Southwestern Front), based in Chernivtsi. He represented a moderate line, striving to maintain the military and organizational cohesion of the army, to use it to defeat the Bolsheviks, but also to prevent the restoration of tsarism. He was an advocate of concluding peace with the Central Powers, which were fighting Russia, as soon as possible. After the Bolshevik coup (October Revolution), he left St. Petersburg and joined the Volunteer Army of General Lavr Kornilov and Mikhail Alekseyev, where he was a member of the Don Civic Council - a political body attached to this army. Then he was delegated as Kornilov's representative to the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Kiev. He arrived there after the overthrow of that government and hid first from the Bolsheviks and then from the Hetmanate authorities (Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi). During his stay in Kiev, he established contact with the POW and joined this organization, not ceasing his anti-Bolshevik and anti-Skoropadskyi activities as a representative of Kornilov's secret mission. He spent half a year in a German prison in Kiev. On December 18, 1918, he left Kiev for Warsaw. On behalf of the Polish authorities, he established cooperation with Russian anti-Bolshevik emigration groups and took part in organizing the White troops in Poland. After the Polish-Soviet peace was concluded and the Whites were internment, Wędziagolski resigned from service as a sign of protest and settled in Jaworów. In July 1934 he became the trustee of the Cotton Industry Plants "Ludwik Geyer" SA in Łódź. Thanks to the savings introduced, the limitation of investments and the reduction of debt through agreements with creditors, he managed to increase the employment level and increase production. After four years, the court considered the company's situation to be good, and in view of the progressive improvement of the economic situation, in June 1938 it decided to raise the company's bankruptcy. However, the successful restructuring of the plants was interrupted by World War II. After the USSR's aggression against Poland, he crossed the Polish-Romanian border with the government. From Romania he traveled to Rome - where his niece Janina Clarotti - née Rutkowska (wife of Giorgio Clarotti) lived - and met his wife Janina and daughters Hanna, Janina and Edwarda and the dog Pusia, who flew from Riga to Sweden by plane on February 19, 1940 and reached Rome by train via Holland and France on March 26. 1940.
Karol was associated with the last government (Edward's youngest daughter was named after Śmigły Rydz, who was her godfather) and had no chance of going to France or Great Britain. Since they could not obtain a visa to the USA or Canada, they went to Brazil. On 27.04.1941, they landed in Rio de Janeiro after a 14-day voyage on the SS Cabo-de-buena-Esperanza from Lisbon and went to São Paulo.
After 1956, he managed to find a job in the administration at the newly established Mercedes factory in São Paulo, established and managed by Alfred Jurzykowski.
In this country, he wrote his memoirs, which were awarded a number of prizes by Polonia (1972 - the award of the Association of Polish Writers Abroad, 1973 - the Wiadomości award, 1974 - the Kościelski Foundation award). Published in 1972 and 1987 in London, in 1989 illegally in Poland and in 2007.
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He had three daughters: Anna (1924-1959), Janina (1926-1958), Edwarda (1929-1974<).
Anna married a Portuguese Caballero and gave birth to three sons and died when the boys were about 6 years old. Her husband married a Canadian and died. The boys left with their mother for Canada.
Janina died in a robbery.
Buried in the Itaquera cemetery in São Paulo, Brazil.
Information author Andrzej Rutkowski at. -at- wp.pl
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