Samuel Maskiewicz

Samuel Maskiewicz (circa 1580, Serwecz, Nowogródek powiat – after 1632) was a Polish-Lithuanian officer, Hussar of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a participant in the Moscow Campaign, writer–memoirist, author of a diary published in Russia.

[1] Then the royal regiment of Prince Janusz Porycki, in which Maskiewicz served, joined the army of the full crown hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski and took part in the victorious Battle of Klushino (June 24, 1610).

Maskiewicz's diaries describe in detail the Siege of Smolensk (1609–1611), while emphasizing the courage of the city's defenders, especially its governor Mikhail Shein.

The author justifies the harsh reaction of the Russian peasantry against the troops of the Commonwealth, as revenge for the disasters it inflicted on the people.

Father – Jan Semenowicz Maskiewicz (died 1595) – owned part of the Serwecz and Yatra estates, served with Troky Castellan Ostafi Bohdanowicz Wołłowicz [pl].