He was sent to Siberia by Tsar Alexander II's troops after participating in the January Uprising in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania.

There he wrote in Polish the story of his adventure, which was later translated to French by Joséphine Bohdan.

The original Polish written version of the memoirs seems to be owned by Jean and Madeleine Okinczyc.

There, the "Association des amis du vieux Villepreux" offers a museum about the "Docteur Alexandre" and there is a street named "rue du Docteur Alexandre".

[4] He was the son in law of Polish romantic poet, Józef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886), who also died in Villepreux.