Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski, photograph by Karol Beyer, c. 1861-1863.
Appointed by the Tsar to dampen brewing discontent and growing independence feeling in Warsaw, Wielopolski (1803-1877), a Polish aristocrat, devised a plan to conscript a vast number of Polish youth into the Imperial Russian Army, precipitating the January Uprising of 1863.
National Library of Poland, Warsaw.
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