https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2012.12.04
Andrzej Zamoyski was not counted among the circle of the most influential magnates in the Republic of Poland. His figure started to be noticed after 1795, when he was recognized as a role model for a good potentate, an opposition to the stereotypically negative image of lords that led the country to collapse. For diary-writers, Andrzej Zamoyski was an example of a magnate full of virtues. In that way he was rendered in memoirs written by persons who were witnesses of Poland losing its independence. Their appraisal shows the figure of a magnate that was far removed from the negative stereotype dominating diary accounts. Nevertheless, it is worth stressing that beyond the canon of “evil” magnates enumerated by name, the condemned potentate was usually anonymous. The diary-writers also created positive characters of lords that were to have been role models for contemporaries. Those operations were undertaken with the future of the captive nation in mind. The next generation of diary-writers — those remembering the Stanislavian Age only vaguely or knowing it vicariously — sustained the tendency to render magnates in the above-mentioned manner. Positive heroes of the end of the 18th century are raised in value, but Andrzej Zamoyski appears seldom in this context. His place is taken by others — those who were renowned during the Napoleonic period. Amongst these authors, the group of “evil” magnates also undergoes metamorphosis, but the canon of “betrayers” seems more steady. Also conspicuous is the will to present the good magnate who would prove that coexistence of all social groups is possible. Even though the vanishing of the figure of Andrzej Zamoyski from the memories of descendants is understandable, skipping him in the diaries written before 1795 is surprising, as well as his severe judgment in written accounts from that time that merely mention him. It can be explained by the specificity of those texts. They lack moral teaching and reflect the actions of their authors, presenting unambiguously neither the stereotype of “evil” nor good magnate.
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