Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki

Russian: Ксаве́рий Фра́нцевич Дру́цкий-Любе́цкий; 4 January 1778–10 May 1846) was an important Polish politician, freemason and diplomat of the first half of the 19th century.

In 1816 he became the Governor General of Grodno gubernia and a member of the commission for settling the financial accounts between Kingdom of Poland and Russian Empire.

He also protected new industries from western import, especially from Germany, which led to a tariff war with Prussia.

He founded the National Bank of Poland in 1828,[5] he was also the initiator of the Land Credit Society (Towarzystwo Kredytowe Ziemskie).

He represented the political faction known as 'Conciliators', which believed that Polish independence may come only through economic growth and diplomacy, not military adventures.

[7][8] However the Conciliators were handicapped not only by their domestic opponents, the 'Insurrectionist' faction, but by the Russian imperial authorities themselves who rarely saw the need to compromise with a defeated, weak enemy.

Therefore, Drucki opposed the November Uprising against the Russia, which he deemed as folly and a dangerous gambit which would lose all that has been achieved over the past decade.

Drawing by Walenty Śliwicki