Wilno w okresie popowstaniowym we wspomnieniach Ludwika Czarkowskiego i Władysława Zahorskiego

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present Vilnius in the period after the January Uprising, its monuments as well as the public and social lives of its inhabitants, as portrayed in the memoirs of two doctors and social activists, Ludwik Czarkowski (1855–1928) and Władysław Zahorski (1855–1927.) Both authors are thought to have written their memoirs in the 1920s. Czarkowski’s memoirs were published in Pamiętnik Wileńskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego [Journal of the Vilnius Physicians Society] in 1929–1930 with the use of notes his family made available to the Journal. Zahorski’s family was in possession of the manuscript containing his memoirs after his death. After World War II they brought it to post-war Poland, and presently it is kept in the Manuscript Department at the National Library in Warsaw. In 2018 the first volume of Zahorski’s memoirs was published in Warsaw. The memoirs of both these men are an important information source on life in Vilnius during the first ten years after the suppression of the January Uprising, which coincided with their childhood and early youth.