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Kamil GizyckiPolish writer and traveler
Date of Birth: 19.08.1893
Country:  Poland |
Content:
- Kamil Giżycki: A Polish Writer and Adventurer
- Siberian Adventures
- Escape from Krasnoyarsk
- White Movement in Mongolia and Xinjiang
- Joining Ungern's Army
- Escape from Mongolia
- Later Life and Return to Poland
Kamil Giżycki: A Polish Writer and Adventurer
Education and Early LifeKamil Giżycki began his education at the Jesuit school in Chyrów and later studied at the Technical University in Munich. During World War I, he fought in the Austrian army and was severely wounded in Częstochowa. He was taken prisoner by the Russians and sent to Siberia.
Siberian Adventures
Giżycki was quickly released from captivity and appointed director of an agricultural machinery factory. After the outbreak of the February Revolution in 1917, he joined the Czechoslovak Corps and fought during Admiral Kolchak's offensive. In 1919, he joined the Polish division in Novosibirsk and fought against the Bolsheviks in Siberia.
Escape from Krasnoyarsk
In January 1920, the Polish division was surrounded by Bolsheviks near Krasnoyarsk. Giżycki and a group of soldiers and officers refused to surrender and escaped. He went into hiding in Minusinsk, where he briefly managed an agricultural machinery factory. After being arrested by the Bolsheviks, he escaped and spent two months in hiding in the taiga.
White Movement in Mongolia and Xinjiang
Giżycki organized a White partisan detachment in the Uryankhay region. He fought alongside other White forces and briefly occupied the capital of Tuva. Following the White defeat, he fled to northwestern Mongolia. In 1921, he was sent to Xinjiang to establish cooperation with General Bakić against Chinese rule.
Joining Ungern's Army
Upon his return to Mongolia, Giżycki joined Baron Ungern's army. He participated in the failed offensive on Uryankhay and later organized and led a factory producing hand grenades, mines, and poison gas for Ungern.
Escape from Mongolia
Giżycki participated in Ungern's final campaign on Verkhneudinsk. After Ungern's defeat, he joined the Second Brigade and escaped through the northern Gobi to Manchuria in September 1921.
Later Life and Return to Poland
In Manchuria, Giżycki served as a military instructor for General Zhang Zuolin's Manchu army and later worked as an engineer on the railroad. In 1922, he joined General Pepeliaev's army but soon decided to return to Poland. In Poland, he lived near Lviv and worked as an animal preparator for Ossendowski's expedition to West Africa in 1926. In 1934, he purchased a large plantation in Liberia but returned to Poland in 1939 to fight against the Nazi invasion. He served as an officer in the underground Home Army.
