Abstrakt: | Th e article discusses the poems written by hussars preserved in a manuscript kept in the Jagiellonian
Library (ref. no. Przyb. 217/61). In the rhymed register of a military unit, Aleksander Cedrowski
facetiously characterised his comrades known to him personally, while the anonymous author
described in a poem the Shrove Tuesday party held by Mikołaj Kisiel, who hosted in his house the
hussars mentioned by name. In the poetic letters by Daniel Koźmicki and Andrzej Zborowski, on
the other hand, there is a polemic about the condition of the knight and spouse. Th e occasional
poems also show the problems with provisions of the hussars who stayed for winter in the Nowogródek
Voivodeship (now Navahrudak, Belarus) in 1659. |