[5] In 1850–56 Rzewuski, an advocate of the closest Polish-Russian political collaboration, worked with Russian Imperial Viceroy Ivan Paskevich, and in 1851–56 he edited Dziennik Warszawki (The Warsaw Daily).

He had later met the poet in Rome and had enthralled him with stories of the old Polish nobility,[1] helping inspire Mickiewicz's great verse epic, Pan Tadeusz.

[7] Czesław Miłosz characterizes Rzewuski as a literary figure: A picturesque personality, he worshiped Old Poland in its most Sarmatian, obscurantist aspects and showed... contempt for all Enlightenment trends... His first book, The Memoirs of Soplica, was published in 1839 in Paris, and though it was called a novel, it is in fact a gawęda.

The work [mesmerized] its readers [by its] vivid... style and was admired by Mickiewicz, who knew it in manuscript form long before its publication.

The vein of Sarmatian gentry buffoonery that runs throughout all Rzewuski's writings was also typical of other [Polish] writers who, like him, cannot be said to have contributed anything to the formation of a disciplined, economical language in fiction.