Wojciech Grzymała

A freemason, and active in Polish politics during the 1820s, he was a principal orator at the funeral of Stanisław Staszic (1826).

In 1828-1829, he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg for his association with the Polish Towarzystwo Patriotyczne (Patriotic Society).

As a director of the Bank Polski, he negotiated in London and Paris for financial and other support for Poland after the 1830 November Uprising.

He often acted as Chopin's adviser and "gradually began to fill the role of elder brother in [his] life.

"[2] He was a frequent correspondent of both Chopin and of George Sand; Sand, in a letter to Grzymała of June 1838, admitted her strong feelings for the composer and debated whether to abandon a current affair in order to begin a relationship with Chopin.