Funeral celebrations of Sergei Piasecki – Warsaw, September 29, 2025
date:25 September 2025 Editor: Editorial
On Monday, 29 September 2025 at 12 noon at the Polish Army Field Department (Długa Street 13/15) The Holy Mass will begin with the ceremony ceremony of Sergei Piasecki, a associate in the Polish-Bolshevik War, an intelligence officer, a soldier of the Home Army, an outstanding writer.
For organizational reasons, people wishing to attend the ceremony ceremony in the Polish Army Department are asked to send a notification (name and surname) to: [email protected]
After the service, the temporal remains of the author will be deposited at the Military Cemetery in Powązki. At 2 p.m., a ceremony procession will be formed at the main gate of the Military Cemetery. Sergei Piasecki will remainder in A18, row 1, seat 29. The ceremony ceremony at the Cemetery will be broadcast on the IPNtv channel. The event is organised by the Institute of National Memory.
It will be the re-burial of Sergei Piasecki. The writer's temporal remains rested in Britain, on Borough Cemetery in Hastings. The Bureau of Commemoration of the Fight and Martyrdom of the IPN, acting in agreement with the household of Sergei Piasecki, undertook the exhumation of the remains of the author and bringing them to Warsaw.
The ceremony ceremony will be attended by representatives of the highest state authorities, the management of the Institute of National Memory and gathered guests.
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Sergius Piasecki was born in 1899 in Novogródczyz, Lachovich. He was the illegitimate kid of the crumbling Polish noble Michael Piasecki and Belorussian Klauda Kułakowicz. From the age of 11, he was raised by a concubine of his father Filomen Gruszewska. It was a hard time for him. Physical and intellectual force has established his incorruptible character.
In 1917 he witnessed the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow. The criminal panic and savagery of revolutionaries perpetuated for the remainder of his life his attitude as a staunch anti-communist. He fought the Bolsheviks, first in the ranks of the insurgent Belarusian troops, then as a soldier of the Polish Army. He took part in the defence of Warsaw in 1920. After demobilization, deprived of his livelihood, he became active with the criminal world.
In August 1922, he became an agent in the second branch of the General Staff of the Polish Army No. 6 in Brest over Bug, dealing with intelligence, counterintelligence and non-frontal diversion. He belonged to a group of alleged cordon agents of this facility regularly crossing the russian border. For his bravadoful courage in serving with life's risk, he was appointed as lieutenant. Unfortunately, functioning in the environment of smugglers and confiscations combined with alcohol and drug abuse led to violations of discipline – Piasecki was released from service in 1926. After being arrested for armed robbery, he was sentenced to death penalty, changed by president Ignacy Mościcki, in designation of earlier merits, to 15 years in prison. He did most of the penalties in the heaviest prison of the Second Polish Republic on the Holy Cross.
In prison, Sergei Piasecki underwent a profound spiritual transformation. At the time, his extraordinary writing talent came out. Thanks to the increasing popularity of his work – the debut fresh “The Lover of the large Bear” was recognized as the most popular book in 1937, the fresh was translated into a full of 16 languages – president Ignacy Mościcki cut the punishment by 4 years. Behind Sergius Piasecki many writers stood up to the president, including Melchior Wańkowicz.
In September 1939, Sergei Piasecki volunteered to join the border company of the Border defender Corps “Rykonty”. From 19 February 1940 to 7 February 1945, he served in the Vilnius territory of the National Army, again showing courage and effectiveness in action. He was a associate of the peculiar Branch to execute death sentences handed down by underground courts. In December 1943, Sergei Piasecki received the Bronze Cross of Merit with Swords for “the distinguished service of a soldier in the ranks of the conspiracy”. In fact, it was a discrimination for Piasecki's action to save Katyń materials and Mackiewicz's report.
After the russian business of Vilnius in the summertime of 1944, he inactive had to hide. He was wanted by the Communist safety Office. In May 1946, he made his way from the Soviet-occupied Vilnius to Italy, where he joined the 2nd Polish Corps. Thanks to this, he was able to live in England after demobilization, where he developed his literary and publicist activity, belonging to the Union of Polish Writers in abroad Affairs since 1947.
In the IPN archive there is simply a evidence concerning Sergei Piasecki in the public evidence of the erstwhile "C" Office of the Ministry of Interior in Warsaw:
Writer, before the war associated with Oddz. II. Definitely hostile to the country and anti-Soviet. Written in the index of undesirables in the PRL (...)
In Britain, Piasecki lived very modestly, frequently moonlighting for physical labor. He wrote a lot, including playing his prison books, erstwhile stopped by censorship.
He was a fierce enemy of communism, which he expressed in published texts. He was highly suggestive of the image of “democratic Poland” after 1945 in the grotesque “Seven pills of Lucifer”; “Registers of an officer of the Red Army” represent satire on the russian state and propaganda. In his books “The Slash of Legend”, “The Man Turned into a Wolf” and “For the Honor of the Organization” he preserved the business reality and activity in the AK. He worked with the Polish emigration press. His articles were published in the “News”, “Polish Journal” and “Polish Weekly” in the USA, “National” in France and “Upstream” in Switzerland.
In his publications he was very extremist and harshly assessed the communist strategy and its associates. In his opinion, he denounced the western states' policy towards the USSR besides mild. In the pamphlet “Former Poputczik Miłosz” he powerfully criticized Czesław Miłosz. With this text, he started a storm on the pages of the Parisian “Culture”. He besides wrote "Diaries". Unfortunately, just before he died, he destroyed them almost entirely. Among the Polish emigration he enjoyed a very good reputation.
Exhausted by a long prison, years of business and ascetic life on emigration, he suffered from lung cancer. He died on 12 September 1964. He was buried at Borough Cemetery in Hastings.
for:
https://ipn.gov.pl/en/dla-mediov/press release/230265, ceremony charms-Sergius-Piasecki-Warsaw-29-September-2025.html
After the service, the temporal remains of the author will be deposited at the Military Cemetery in Powązki. At 2 p.m., a ceremony procession will be formed at the main gate of the Military Cemetery. Sergei Piasecki will remainder in A18, row 1, seat 29. The ceremony ceremony at the Cemetery will be broadcast on the IPNtv channel. The event is organised by the Institute of National Memory.
It will be the re-burial of Sergei Piasecki. The writer's temporal remains rested in Britain, on Borough Cemetery in Hastings. The Bureau of Commemoration of the Fight and Martyrdom of the IPN, acting in agreement with the household of Sergei Piasecki, undertook the exhumation of the remains of the author and bringing them to Warsaw.
The ceremony ceremony will be attended by representatives of the highest state authorities, the management of the Institute of National Memory and gathered guests.
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Sergius Piasecki was born in 1899 in Novogródczyz, Lachovich. He was the illegitimate kid of the crumbling Polish noble Michael Piasecki and Belorussian Klauda Kułakowicz. From the age of 11, he was raised by a concubine of his father Filomen Gruszewska. It was a hard time for him. Physical and intellectual force has established his incorruptible character.
In 1917 he witnessed the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow. The criminal panic and savagery of revolutionaries perpetuated for the remainder of his life his attitude as a staunch anti-communist. He fought the Bolsheviks, first in the ranks of the insurgent Belarusian troops, then as a soldier of the Polish Army. He took part in the defence of Warsaw in 1920. After demobilization, deprived of his livelihood, he became active with the criminal world.
In August 1922, he became an agent in the second branch of the General Staff of the Polish Army No. 6 in Brest over Bug, dealing with intelligence, counterintelligence and non-frontal diversion. He belonged to a group of alleged cordon agents of this facility regularly crossing the russian border. For his bravadoful courage in serving with life's risk, he was appointed as lieutenant. Unfortunately, functioning in the environment of smugglers and confiscations combined with alcohol and drug abuse led to violations of discipline – Piasecki was released from service in 1926. After being arrested for armed robbery, he was sentenced to death penalty, changed by president Ignacy Mościcki, in designation of earlier merits, to 15 years in prison. He did most of the penalties in the heaviest prison of the Second Polish Republic on the Holy Cross.
In prison, Sergei Piasecki underwent a profound spiritual transformation. At the time, his extraordinary writing talent came out. Thanks to the increasing popularity of his work – the debut fresh “The Lover of the large Bear” was recognized as the most popular book in 1937, the fresh was translated into a full of 16 languages – president Ignacy Mościcki cut the punishment by 4 years. Behind Sergius Piasecki many writers stood up to the president, including Melchior Wańkowicz.
In September 1939, Sergei Piasecki volunteered to join the border company of the Border defender Corps “Rykonty”. From 19 February 1940 to 7 February 1945, he served in the Vilnius territory of the National Army, again showing courage and effectiveness in action. He was a associate of the peculiar Branch to execute death sentences handed down by underground courts. In December 1943, Sergei Piasecki received the Bronze Cross of Merit with Swords for “the distinguished service of a soldier in the ranks of the conspiracy”. In fact, it was a discrimination for Piasecki's action to save Katyń materials and Mackiewicz's report.
After the russian business of Vilnius in the summertime of 1944, he inactive had to hide. He was wanted by the Communist safety Office. In May 1946, he made his way from the Soviet-occupied Vilnius to Italy, where he joined the 2nd Polish Corps. Thanks to this, he was able to live in England after demobilization, where he developed his literary and publicist activity, belonging to the Union of Polish Writers in abroad Affairs since 1947.
In the IPN archive there is simply a evidence concerning Sergei Piasecki in the public evidence of the erstwhile "C" Office of the Ministry of Interior in Warsaw:
Writer, before the war associated with Oddz. II. Definitely hostile to the country and anti-Soviet. Written in the index of undesirables in the PRL (...)
In Britain, Piasecki lived very modestly, frequently moonlighting for physical labor. He wrote a lot, including playing his prison books, erstwhile stopped by censorship.
He was a fierce enemy of communism, which he expressed in published texts. He was highly suggestive of the image of “democratic Poland” after 1945 in the grotesque “Seven pills of Lucifer”; “Registers of an officer of the Red Army” represent satire on the russian state and propaganda. In his books “The Slash of Legend”, “The Man Turned into a Wolf” and “For the Honor of the Organization” he preserved the business reality and activity in the AK. He worked with the Polish emigration press. His articles were published in the “News”, “Polish Journal” and “Polish Weekly” in the USA, “National” in France and “Upstream” in Switzerland.
In his publications he was very extremist and harshly assessed the communist strategy and its associates. In his opinion, he denounced the western states' policy towards the USSR besides mild. In the pamphlet “Former Poputczik Miłosz” he powerfully criticized Czesław Miłosz. With this text, he started a storm on the pages of the Parisian “Culture”. He besides wrote "Diaries". Unfortunately, just before he died, he destroyed them almost entirely. Among the Polish emigration he enjoyed a very good reputation.
Exhausted by a long prison, years of business and ascetic life on emigration, he suffered from lung cancer. He died on 12 September 1964. He was buried at Borough Cemetery in Hastings.
for:
https://ipn.gov.pl/en/dla-mediov/press release/230265, ceremony charms-Sergius-Piasecki-Warsaw-29-September-2025.html
