Tomasz Parczewski

Tomasz Parczewski (born January 11, 1880 in Mścis³awski near Mogilev, died in July 1932) was a Polish philosopher, civilian governor of Kronstadt in 1917. Curriculum vitae

He graduated in philosophy from the University of St. Petersburg, where he defended his doctorate in 1912 and settled in Kronstadt as a Russian language teacher at his high school. After the outbreak of World War I, mobilized as a cadre of the garrison of the Sveaborg fortress in Helsinki, where he served until May 1916, then at his own request he went to the garrison in Kronstadt, where he also taught at the school besides military service. At the outbreak of March 1, 1917, in Kronstadt Parczewski, as well as all unassigned officers, he was imprisoned, but on March 3 he was released from his company, and after a few days he was elected to the Kronstadt Council of Mariners, Soldiers and Workers. In May 1917 during the so-called. Kronstadt incident resulted in a dispute between the Russian government and Kronstadt, Council of Delegates 29 V 1917 elected Parczewski non-party to the civilian governor of the island and the fortress (formally the title: the commissioner of civil affairs of Kronstadt). This was a gesture of reconciliation to the government of the prince of Lvov and the Polish governor was officially accepted by the government, which gave him the rank of minister. Likewise, he was later considered by the Kerensky government. August 8, 1917, due to the previous votum of distrust towards his person, passed by the Delegates' Council, Parczewski resigned. On his return to Kronstadt he worked as a teacher. Due to starvation in Kronstadt and the persecution of intelligentsia after the October Revolution, Parczewski moved in June 1919 with his family to St. Petersburg. He became an assistant at the University of St. Petersburg, but often went to lectures and studies at Vitebsk universities and research institutes, and from 1921 to Astrakhan. In July 1920 he was arrested with his wife in Petersburg for being Poles. In September of the same year he was transported to Moscow for Lubyanka. In October 1920, after his release from prison, he returned to St. Petersburg for the university, and in the following year he left for lectures to Astrakhan. In August 1921 he went to Poland and settled in Warsaw, where he taught philosophy and history in several high schools. At that time, he was preparing material on the Uprising in Kronstadt, which he knew from his colleagues and friends.

Parczewski published several books in addition to several philosophical articles: Bibliography

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