#Izabela Czartoryska

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“Portrait of Izabela Czartoryska”, 1774 by Alexander Roslin (a Swedish portrait painter who worked in Scania, Bayreuth, Paris, Italy, Warsaw and St. Petersburg, primarily for members of aristocratic families) ■ Elżbieta "Izabela" Dorota Czartoryska (née Flemming; 3 March 1746 – 15 July 1835) was a Polish princess, writer, art collector, and prominent figure in the Polish Enlightenment. She was the wife of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and a member of the influential Familia political party. She is also known for having founded Poland's first museum, the Czartoryski Museum, now located in Kraków.

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Czartoryski Museum Kraków Poland

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Princess Izabela Czartoryska was a towering figure of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century European cultural and intellectual life. Married at sixteen to a distinguished older aristocrat, she amassed learning, influence, and a role in both Polish and European statecraft through encounters with figures ranging from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Joseph II of Austria. After the liquidation of her homeland’s sovereignty with its third partition in 1795, she spent the final decades of her life pioneering and curating spaces of preservation, both of Polish nationhood and of the human experience writ large. 

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess (William Collins, 2024) is her definitive biography, penned by distinguished historian Adam Zamoyski—the protagonist’s great-great-great-grandson. Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Zamoyski has told her story as one of empowerment, education, and encounter in an age of profound national and international upheaval.

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Ah, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski! According to the Russian memoirists of the day, he was one of those rare and dangerous people who feel strongly and induce in others feeling just as strong, their noble and deep affection only ever expressed in their melancholic eyes, their silence and distance saying more than any number of words. The same exact principle of winning friendship and love he applied to both Alexander Pavlovich and Alexander's wife.

His nobility and idealism didn’t hinder him any in being a political whore – though, to be fair, a very honest one, as those things go. But could one expect any different from Izabela Flemming Czartoryska’s son? (And does one get bonus sexy points by having a sexy Mom?)

Known to be described as having 'velvet eyes'.

Portrait of his hot mom for context:

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Izabela Lubomirska

Artist: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842)

Date: 1875 (copy of a painting of 1793)

Medium: OIl on Canvas

Collection: Łańcut Castle, Poland

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Princess Elżbieta Izabela Czartoryska (21 May 1736 – 11 November 1816), better known under her married name of Izabela Lubomirska, was a politically influential Polish aristocrat, philanthropist and cultural patron.

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PL:

Świątynia Sybilli, Puławy

Jest to pierwsze polskie muzeum historii narodu. Świątynia wybudowana została przez księżną Izabelę Czartoryską w latach 1798-1801 jako „świątynia pamięci”. Zatrudniony przez nią architekt – Chrystian Piotr Aigner – wzorować się miał na świątyni bogini Westy stojącej w Tivoli koło Rzymu. Nad wejściem znajduje się napis: „Przeszłość-Przyszłości”. Schodów do górnej sali strzegą lwy podarowane przez odwiedzającego Puławy cara Rosji Aleksandra I. Do sali dolnej wchodzi się od strony skarpy.

W świątyni księżna gromadziła pamiątki rodzinne Sieniawskich, Lubomirskich i Czartoryskich oraz pamiątki po innych wielkich Polakach. Miały one przypominać pełną chwały przeszłość narodową. W 1830 r., jeszcze przed powstaniem listopadowym, zbiory zostały ewakuowane, by potem trafić do Paryża po zakupieniu przez ks. A. J. Czartoryskiego Hotelu Lambert. Po ich powrocie do Polski trafiły do Krakowa, gdzie stały się zalążkiem Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich. Muzeum w Świątyni Sybilli zostało reaktywowane przez PTTK dopiero w 1938 r. i jest dostępne do dziś.

EN:

Temple of the Sibyl, Puławy, Poland

It is the first Polish museum of the nation's history. The temple was built by Princess Izabela Czartoryska in the years 1798-1801 as a "temple of memory". The architect she hired - Chrystian Peter Aigner - was to model the temple of the goddess Vesta standing in Tivoli near Rome. Above the entrance there is an inscription: "Past-Future". The stairs to the upper hall are guarded by lions donated by Tsar Alexander I of Russia who visited Puławy. The lower hall is entered from the side of the escarpment.

In the temple, the princess collected family memorabilia of the Sieniawskis, Lubomirskis and Czartoryskis, as well as memorabilia of other great Poles. They were supposed to remind of the glorious national past. In 1830, before the November Uprising, the collection was evacuated, and then went to Paris after it was purchased by Fr. A. J. Czartoryski Hotel Lambert. After their return to Poland, they went to Krakow, where they became the nucleus of the Princes Czartoryski Museum. The Museum in the Temple of the Sibyl was reactivated by PTTK in 1938 and is available to this day.

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Efemérides literarias: 3 de marzo

Acontecimientos 1982: en París se edita Mi último suspiro, autobiografía del cineasta Luis Buñuel. 1986: en Madrid (España), Francisco Rico ingresa en la Real Academia Española. Nacimientos 1583: Edward Herbert de Cherbury, escritor y diplomático inglés (f. 1648). 1606: Edmund Waller, poeta inglés (f. 1687). 1746: Izabela Czartoryska, escritora y aristócrata polaca (f. 1835). 1756: William…

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thank you for the tag @enlitment (and sorry for the late answer)

after careful concideration, i present to you, my hear me out cake:

(from left to right)

Izabela Czartoryska - when i was younger my mum gave me a book about important women in polish history and my 11 year old self thought having a collection of important historical artifacts was so cool

Lucien Bonaparte - no reasoning here, he's just cute

Louis Antoine Saint-Just - where do i begin...

Jadwiga Andegaweńska - a female king?!?! how cool is that?!?!

Lucile Desmoulins - no need explaing this to the frev fandom owo

no pressure tags: @plrle @18thcenturythirsttrap @makiitabaki

Calling history nerds 🚨🚨🚨

Which historical figure(s) would you put on your hear me put cake?

I would put Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Ulysses S Grant on ofc :) (They can also be someone just for goofiness)

hear me out cake example:

Tag people!!! @allysah @tommy-288 @tompoose @maip--macrothorax @rosemeriwether @pranklinfierce @chaotic-history and everyone else :)

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Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734-1823), an influential Polish aristocrat, writer, literary critic, linguist, statesman, commandant of the School of Chivalry (Nobles' Academy of the Corps of Cadets of His Royal Majesty and the Commonwealth), leader of the Patriotic Party and co-founder of Poland's Commission of National Education - because of its vast authority and autonomy, it is considered the first Ministry of Education in European history; in 1758, he became a member of the Sejm (parliament). In 1763 he declined to be a candidate for the Polish crown, preferring instead to be a patron of the arts. With his wife, Princess Izabela Czartoryska, he created at the Czartoryski Palace in��Puławy a major center of Polish intellectual and political life.

The wedding of Izabela Flemming and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski was an event for the whole Commonwealth. The Czartoryskis were uniting the inheritors of the two male branches of the family: the only granddaughter of Michał and the only son of August Czartoryski. During the interregnum of 1733 the possibility of August Czartoryski’s candidacy for the throne had been aired, but he declined to pursue the idea. Instead August focused his efforts on grooming Adam Kazimierz for the throne. Apart from making sure that his son received a rigorous and enlightened education, he sent the young man to the principal European capitals to establish his presence on the international scene. When Prince Adam Kazimierz visited England in 1757 and 1761 he was indeed widely regarded as the next king of Poland.

The scale of the wedding celebrations, which took place on the traditional family date of the feast of St Elizabeth of Hungary, 19 November 1761, suggests long preparations. The marriage contracts were signed the day before. Jerzy Flemming provided not only a dowry of 800,000 zł, but also promised his entire inheritance jointly to the bride and the groom. Flemming was therefore leaving his whole fortune to the Czartoryskis, rather than only to his daughter. Her life and her property now merged with those of her husband. Michał Czartoryski invited Jan Klemens Branicki, Grand Hetman of the Crown, and Prince Michał Radziwiłł, Grand Hetman of Lithuania, to stand as witnesses. In the mind of Michał and August, the chief commanders of the armed forces of the Commonwealth symbolically endorsed the Czartoryskis’ choice for the next king and queen of Poland. The sermon was delivered by the Jesuit Karol Wyrwicz, historiographer and geographer to the Czartoryskis. He impressed on the newlyweds that their linage was so noble, so high and so magnificent that none equalled it in the whole of Europe; that their line had given Poland eight kings, while another three of its members had sat on the Hungarian throne and three on the Bohemian. The festivities lasted six days in Wołczyn, after which they continued at Klemens Branicki’s Biała in an equally lavish way.

Adam Kazimierz's decision to renounce any aspirations to the throne earned him scorn from his father and derision from generations of historians. Neither Adam nor Izabela ever revisited the choice, but a feeling of regret at the lost opportunity still lingered among their sympathizers.

The prince was a passionate bibliophile. Personally or through agents, he bought manuscripts and old prints related to Poland all over Europe. His collections gave rise to the Czartoryski Library that exists to this day. Since Adam Kazimierz became the commandant of the School of Chivalry, education also became his hobby. He personally translated textbooks, some of which he wrote himself. It is difficult to overestimate the merits of the would-be king for the national theatre: he personally supervised castings for actors. Puławy attracted scientists, artists and men of letters and the town was called Polish Athens.

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Two years ago I made a drawing based on portrait of Izabela Czartoryska by Alexander Roslin. Today I’m presenting you a redraw. Izabela was Polish princess (wife of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski), writer and fundator of the first Poland's museum (Czartoryski Museum). She lived between XVIII and XIX century.

Look into her eyes. Give her your soul. 

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Elżbieta "Izabela" Dorota Czartoryska (née Flemming; 3 March 1746 – 15 July 1835) was a Polish princess, writer, art collector, and prominent figure in the Polish Enlightenment.

She was the wife of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and a member of the influential Familia political party.

She founded Poland's first museum, the Czartoryski Museum, now located in Kraków.

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Princesse Izabela Czartoryska by French school (on sale by Drouot Richelieu). From their Web site; removed spots and flaws with Photoshop 3032X4783 @150 2.9Mj. The coiffure is late 1760s or 1770s - straight hair built high. The turban-like cap with veil, vest, apron, maxi-length skirt is interesting for this era.

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Princess Izabela Czartoryska: Founder of Poland’s First Museum

“My homeland, I was not able to save you, let me immortalise you at least.” – Princess Izabela Czartoryska, upon founding the Czartoryski art collection

From rare parchments and ancient Egyptian mummies to artworks including a Rembrandt and a prized Leonardo da Vinci portrait, the Czartoryski collection, added to by generations of Polish nobles, is one of the most intriguing and varied in Europe.

The collection was started more than 200 years ago by Izabela Czartoryska, a patriotic princess who wanted to preserve it for future generations of Poles. (Her passion for collecting historical artefacts amused some of her contemporaries. A memoirist of the period noted that when the body of the seventeenth-century Polish king Jan III Sobieski was brought out during a celebration, it was incredibly well-preserved aside from one whisker, which the princess had reportedly snipped off to showcase in her museum! 😜)

The eighteenth century was a tumultuous period in Polish history, as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth went from being one of the larger European states to being partitioned between Prussia, Russia, and Austria, and ceasing to exist on the map by 1794. Princess Izabela was consumed by the fate of her country; she played an active role in politics and was a member of the Patriotic party. Her court at the Czartoryski Palace at Puławy became one of the most important intellectual and political meeting places of the period.

“It’s like Noah’s Ark. It had to be taken through the difficult periods of partitions and preserved for the future, when we would regain our independence,” said Andrzej Szczerski, the director of Kraków’s National Museum. It includes 86,000 objects and a library of 250,000 books and manuscripts, many of key historical importance.

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kup rzeźbę z Łazienek, nocą spław ją do Puław Wisłą i postaw w parku ku radości księżnej pani

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Elzbieta Izabela Lubomirska, née Czartoryska (21 May 1736 - 11 November 1816)

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Józef Poniatowski’s women.

Part IV. The emperor’s sister and a couple of cousins.

Good evening, dear all, and let me continue about prince Józef’s women.

The first point in today’s list will be the person I omitted writing the first part of the series. Namely - Pauline, a sister of Napoleon.

Images used for collage: Poniatowski’s portrait by Grassi, and Pauline’s by Robert Lefèvre

Excluding the four women from the above-mentioned post (who are documented to be prince Józef’s love interests) it is the princess Borghese who has the highest probability of having affair with Poniatowski. The certainty of being so is not 100%, because, as I have found reading documents from the époque, the alleged romance was mentioned by one person only (by Anetka Potocka), and the rest of the people just quoted her.

Pauline Bonaparte-Borghese, Duchess of Guastalla, by Robert Lefèvre 

And, if the affair did have place, it didn’t last long. Because Pauline has never been to Poland, and Poniatowski stayed in France only about 4 months in 1811.

Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, by Salomon-Guillaume Counis

Btw, this is my favourite image of Pauline, because the creators of my favourite Napoleonic TV series chose an actress to play Pauline who looked pretty much like she on this portrait.

The next person in my list will be the Duchess Maria of Württemberg, née Czartoryska. Being the daughter of the princess Izabela and - officially - the prince Adam (and unofficially - of the king Stanisław August himself), princess Maria was Pepi’s second cousin. (A little bit about the Czartoryskis I wrote there.)

Images used for collage: a copy of Grassi’s portrait of prince Józef, and Maria’s portrait by Heinrich Friedrich Füger

Maria was 5 years younger than her cousins, and though some historians name her among the possible brides the Poniatowskis family were considering for Pepi, I do not think this is plausible. Because having only sixteen years she was given by her parents as a wife to the duke Louis of Württemberg.

Portrait of Maria Anna Czartoryska, Duchess von Württemberg, made by Louis-François Marteau

The marriage, however, didn’t prove to happy. The Duke, being made the commander of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's army during the War in Defense of the Constitution in 1792, betrayed the Commonwealth, refusing sending his troops to fight the Russians. And Maria, having that year given birth of their only child, a son, initiated next year divorce.

Maria’s portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder

As for prince Józef and his possible relations with Maria - there is a list written by Maria’s mother around the year 1788, when Maria and her husband after 4 years in Prussia came to settle in Warsaw. And in this list the princess Izabela warned her daughter, that she should have been careful when prince Józef would start courting her! As a proof of that piece of advice the princess Izabela wrote that “Prince Joseph himself says loudly that he is incapable of true love, that he only likes to play with women.”

Not very much of evidence, is it? But had there be no any interest between Maria and Józef the former’s mother would not have had a reason to warn her daughter.

Anyway, it looks like princess Izabella’s piece of advice made her daughter reject Pepi’s courtship (if the latter did happen). Because no one of diarists ever mentioned any kind of romantic liaison between the two.

Maria’s portrait by un unknown author, ci 1810.

Although in 1813, upon learning of the death of Prince Joseph, in a letter to her brother prince Adam Maria expressed a great regret which she claimed would not leave her until her death.

And what about Maria herself? What happened to her after divorce? Alas, her later life didn’t look like as a happy one. Having divorced the duke she had to give their son away to the his father’s family (who raised the boy in the spirit of polonophobia…). Never remarrying, Maria found her “consolation” in philanthropy and writing (her novel Malvina is considered to be Polish first psychological novel).

The last woman of today’s list will be… Maria’s younger sister, princess Sophia (Zofia) Czartoryska, married name Zamoyska.

Images used for collage: prince Jozef’s portrait by Antoni Brodowski and princess Sophia’s - unknown author’s copy after Josef Grassi

She was 10 years younger than Maria (and 15 - than Pepi), and though in the last years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth existence she was among other considered as a possible bride for prince Józef this project remained “on paper”. And eventually, in 1798, Sophia married Stanisław, count Zamoyski.

Portrait of Stanisław and Sophia Zamoyski with their children, Sebastian Ludwik Wilhelm Norblin

And here lies the biggest problem, „undermining” a theory that there might have been a romance between countess Zamoyska and prince Poniatowski - because in comparison with her older sister Sophia’s marriages seemed to be a happy one. She and her husband had 8 children, and in society she was known as a woman of very high virtues.

Sophia’s portrait by Josef Grassi

Nevertheless, there is a historian (Waldemar Łysiak) which stated there might have been possibility and that is why I feel I have to mention this.

Everything happened in spring of 1813, when prince Józef with the Polish Army he managed to gather after the disaster of the previous year stayed in Kraków. A lot of people tried that time to dissuade him to lead this army to the emperor of the Frenchmen, advising switching sizes, joining the anti-napoleonic coalition instead. And the beautiful Sophia was among those people. She even arranged - in her country house “Pod Lipkami” (“Under linden trees”) - a farewell party for the Polish army and its commander on the eve of their leaving. (And, in Łysiak’s opinion, the consummation of the romance might have happened just there.) The party that in fact turned out to be the last , as Juliusz Fałkowski called it, “nice and happy moments of prince Jozef’s life" on Polish soil…