He was a photographer, painter, poet and writer, a seamen and traveler, a conspirator, legionnaire and lancer in Polish cavalry.

He visited distant regions including Siberia, China, Japan, India, Egypt and Syria.

In his retirement, he devoted his time to popularize moral, economic and political benefits of Poland's access to the Baltic Sea.

The Commission edited six volumes of the Polish – English – French – German - Russian Marine Dictionary.

In Poland, before the Second World War, the Boy Scouts movement was an important part of marine education among Polish youth.

General Zaruski played a leading role as a seamanship instructor for Polish Scouts units in Jastarnia, located on the shore of the Baltic Sea.

During his presidency, youth at universities, the Boy Scouts and yacht clubs all over Poland were integrated in one mass movement devoted to seamanship and marine education.

As captain of Zawisza Czarny, he was treated with such respect and adoration by youths that they called him no other than “Sir General”.

He was arrested, then imprisoned by the Soviet NKVD in Lwów after the Red Army invaded Poland in September 1939.

On 29 March 1941, NKVD sentenced him, as a socially dangerous element, to penal resettlement to Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia.

In autumn of 1991, thanks to the efforts of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego, the Polish Scouts, the ashes of Gen. Zaruski were brought to Poland and buried in Zakopane Cemetery.