Aleksander Kryczyński

Aleksander Kryczyński (died 1673 in Bar) was a Lipka Tatar military captain and a rotmistrz (rotamaster).

He first served the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but then in 1672 led the Lipka Rebellion and defected to the Ottoman Empire.

As the bey of the fortress in Bar, he was murdered in 1673 by his own troops during the rebellion.

The history of Kryczyński provided inspiration for the character Azja in the novel Fire in the Steppe by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz.

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