'The King in Nesvizh. 1784' is a historical novel by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski about the visit of the last Polish king, Stanisław August Poniatowski, to Nesvizh, the residence of the Radziwill princes. It offers a vivid picture of aristocratic life in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the eve of its fall.
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (also Józef Ignatius Kraszewski, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Polish: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Lithuanian: Juozapas Ignotas Kraševskis) was a Polish writer, publicist, publisher, and author of books on history and ethnography; pseudonyms: Kleofas Fakund Pasternak, Bogdan Bolesławita, Dr. Omega. He was distinguished by extraordinary productivity: his literary legacy comprises about 600 volumes of novels and stories, poetic and dramatic works, as well as studies on history, ethnography, folklore, travel essays, and publicistic and literary-critical articles.
