Dezydery Chłapowski

Baron Dezydery Adam Chłapowski (1788 in Turew – 27 March 1879) of the Dryja coat of arms was a Polish general, businessman and political activist.

His father Józef Chłapowski (born 1756, died 1826) was the baron of Kościan County and his mother Urszula was from the Moszczeńska family.

Here he joined the hundred-man honor guard of Emperor Napoleon formed by the local nobility after the Greater Poland uprising under the command of Umiński.

After the Treaties of Tilsit and returning from Riga, where he was interned, he was promoted to captain on August 1 and assigned as General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski's adjutant.

The decision was caused by Chłapowski's bitterness over Napoleon's attitude towards Poland (plans to give the Duchy of Warsaw to the Tsar in exchange for peace) and the hardships of the campaigns he had gone through.

He settled in his hometown Turwia, which he and Rąbin bought back from the debtor father of a professor, and then tidied up the property and began introducing a modern economy.

As a result, Chłapowski was one of the guests invited to a conference in Berlin, where a plan of enfranchisement of peasants in the Grand Duchy was developed.

Palace in Turwia When the November Uprising broke out, he put on his uniform again and crossed the border, reporting to the Polish insurgent army.

He has developed a bold and interesting offensive plan, including capture of Lithuania's Brest, but it was not approved by Józef Chłopicki, the uprising's dictator, who preferred defensive tactics.

Despite a number of minor victories, Giełgud's indecision about Chłapowski's offensive plans for a quick attack on Vilnius before the arrival of major Russian forces led to the defeat of the expedition.

Despite his strictness and Catholic views, which discouraged some liberals, his achievements made him a widely respected person with a great impact on the community of Greater Poland.

The general was also a promoter of mid-field tree plantings in Poland, which contributed to the economic success of his property and is still favorable to agriculture in this area [5] [6].

Its special purpose is to preserve the system of mid-field plantings with "(...) high natural, landscape, scientific, didactic and cultural values."