Aleksander Stanislaw Potocki
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Count Aleksander Stanisław Potocki (1778–1845) was a Polish noble
, landowner, politician.
Senator castellan of the Polish Kingdom
in 1824, chamberlain of Napoleon Bonaparte. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle awarded on 24 May 1829
Szlachta
The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...
, landowner, politician.
Senator castellan of the Polish Kingdom
Congress Poland
The Kingdom of Poland , informally known as Congress Poland , created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, was a personal union of the Russian parcel of Poland with the Russian Empire...
in 1824, chamberlain of Napoleon Bonaparte. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle awarded on 24 May 1829
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Alexander Potocki at the Wilanow Palace MuseumFurther reading
- Potocka-Wąsowiczowa, Anna z Tyszkiewiczów. Wspomnienia naocznego świadka. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1965.