Casimir Markievicz

The Dunin Markievicz family held land in Malopolska Province (today Ukraine), and had an estate in a town of Zywotow (Polish: Żywotówka; now Zhyvotivka [uk]) where Casimir grew up.

[1] Markievicz attended the State Gymnasium in Kherson, and studied law at the University in Kyiv[1] which at that time still held a vast Polish minority.

[5] However, the Department of Genealogy in Saint Petersburg said that he was entitled to claim to be a member of the Szlachta, of whom there were several hundred thousand in 1900.

Towards the end of his life Markievicz was active in Warsaw, as well as a correspondent for British magazines, such as the Londoner Daily News.

[citation needed] His talent lent itself particularly to the large oil portraits of two Polish statesmen: Marshal Piłsudski[12] and Stanisław Wojciechowski.