Adam Szymański

Adam Szymański (15 July 1852 – 6 April 1916) was a Polish writer and lawyer, remembered for his Siberian Sketches, detailed depictions of the life of Poles in exile.

Pieces translated into English include "Srul from Lubartów", "A Pinch of Salt", and "Maciej the Mazur".

For his involvement with Adam Stanisław Sapieha's "National Government" of 1877, and for helping Jan Ludwik Popławski to found the "Sons of the Fatherland", a socialist group presented as a patriotic version of Ludwik Waryński's network, he was imprisoned in the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel in the years 1878–1879.

He was exiled to Siberia, where he conducted geographical studies and ethnographic research into the Yakuts.

His wife was Nadezhda, with whom he had one son, Jan (1913–1953), who inherited his father's library.