Działalność polityczna Adama Kisiela w 1648 roku

Abstract

Adam Kisiel was one of the most important figures in the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Next to the Grand Chancellor of the Crown, Jerzy Ossoliński and Primate Maciej Łubieński, he was considered one of the pillars of the party seeking an agreement with the Cossacks. He believed that the government of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth should find a place for Cossacks in its structures. At the same time, with the consent of the king and the Great Crown Chancellor, he kept in touch with the Moscow voivodes in order to obtain their military aid against the Crimean Khanate. Afterwards, during the interregnum of 1648, he also tried to persuade Bohdan Khmelnytsky to follow this idea, who initially expressed a desire to reach an agreement with the authorities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.