Feliks Kołyszko

Feliks Kołyszko alias Śmiałyński[3] (Lithuanian: Feliksas Kolyška; 30 May 1837 in Vilnius – 19 February 1889 in Menton[4]) was a Polish-Lithuanian participant of the 1863 January Uprising.

[1] Feliks (Feliksas) was the older brother of Bolesław Kołyszko (Lithuanian: Boleslovas Kolyška) a notable leader of the January Uprising that was aimed at the restoration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[3] In 1851, at the age of fourteen and while a student of the Vilnius Gymnasium, he was arrested and sent to an Imperial Russian Army disciplinary battalion.

[7] On August 7, Kołyszko and his group of about 185 rebels were attacked by 300 hussars and cossacks near Stračiūnai [lt].

[8] Kołyszko and his unit were remembered in a folk song of Vėžionys [lt]:[9] Thereafter he emigrated to France, where he worked in Chemins de fer du Nord and lived in Pontoise.