Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, general of the Podolia lands, although he lived to the Romantic era, was a man of the Enlightenment. He was a prominent Polish statesman and politician, benefactor and influential man of culture and the arts. It is difficult to encompass the uniqueness and versatility of this figure, who enjoyed great recognition already during his life. Feliks Bernatowicz, Sieniawski's secretary to the Prince, recalled that:The local people on hearing of [the Prince's] death (...) crowded into the room (...) they tried to get any memento, either a fraction of his writing or a drawing of some kind from the room, there were those who split the shell from his chair into pieces, others chipped off pieces from the table where he ate with his household members.Gazeta Warszawska, 1823, no. 50 The elite Cadet Corps was located in Krakowskie Przedmieście on the site of the present-day University of Warsaw, and its main building was the Kazimierzowski Palace (today the seat of the university's rectoral authorities). And although in name it was an institution training future military men, the scope of education of the noble youth was much more extensive. It can be said that the School of Knights educated citizens - the future military and intellectual elite of the Republic. Students of the School of Knights gained within its walls not only knowledge and military skills, but also an ethical system and social familiarity. (source: Culture.pl)
