Lata 1794/95 w Szkole Rycerskiej — AGAD, AKP186

Abstrakt

1794 and 1795 in the School of Chivalry — AGAD, AKP 186 In1794, students and professors of theSchoolof Chivalry joined the Kosciuszko Insurrection where they took command positions. Only few months after, when the uprising had failed, the university authorities needed a plan for Cadets Corp liquidation. The unpublished sources, which had been scattered throughout many archives, reveal reality in which pupils, employees and service of various cultural and educational institutions had found themselves. Such reality included being deprived of their salary, place of residence and employment. Those decisions of the authorities,pleading lettersto the king who was still in the countryand the registers of the employers, are only a part of remaining documents from that period. A period when nobody thought that Poland would disappear from the maps. The following article focuses on the issues related to customs, material culture and so-called everyday life of the end of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Theaimof thisworkistointroducethesource(CentralArchivesof HistoricalRecords, referencenumberAKP186) which in the future should help to reconstruct the events taking place in the Cadets Corps barracks between the fall of the uprising and the Third Partition of Poland. This subject is presented not only on the editorial level, but also introduces new information about the history of Warsaw. This work reveals unknown and hitherto undiscovered by the researchers parts of the ‘institution’s history,whichareanintegralelementof ‘Poland’spast,andpossibly willserveasan introduction to a broader research on this subject.