Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski

Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski (1745–1802) was a notable Polish nobleman, politician, art collector, Freemason, and the Mayor of Warsaw during the last years of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in 1792 and 1794.

[2] Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski was born in Stary Białcz (Greater Poland Voivodeship).

In 1791 he co-founded the Society of Friends of the Constitution, and was among the most notable supporters of the reforms passed by that act, along with Hugo Kołłątaj and Ignacy Potocki.

After that part of Poland, along with Warsaw, was finally annexed in the effect of the Third Partition, he was arrested by the Russians and imprisoned in St. Petersburg.

Released from prison in 1796, he returned to Poland and spent the remainder of his life in a small manor in Żelechów.