Czartoryski, Adam Jerzy, b 14 January 1770 in Warsaw, d 15 July 1861 in Montfermeil, France. Prince, Polish political leader. A scion of the Czartoryski princely family, he was a trusted adviser of Tsar Alexander I and was Russia’s foreign minister in 1804–6. During the Polish Insurrection of 1830–1 he presided over the temporary insurgent government and tried to restore Poland within its old boundaries. As an émigré in France he headed the conservative-aristocratic Polish camp. Czartoryski tried to attract Ukrainians to his anti-Russian operations, particularly during the Crimean War, and was helped to do so by Franciszek Duchiński and Michał Czajkowski. According to his plans a Cossack state federated with Poland was to be set up in Dnipro Ukraine, but Galicia was to remain part of Poland. Trzeci Maj, a magazine published by Czartoryski, contained information about Ukraine.

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Handelsman, M. ‘Ukraińska polityka Ks. Adama Czartoryskiego przed wojną Krymską,’ Pratsi Ukraïns'koho naukovoho instytutu u Varshavi, 35 (1936)

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]