Halina z Lutosławskich Meissnerowa. Wspomnienia

Abstract

The text contains, for the first time in print, the Memoirs of Halina Meissner, the youngest daughter of the Spanish writer Sofía Casanova and the Polish philosopher Wincenty Lutosławski. The memoirs were written at the request of her daughter, Krystyna Doerfferówna (married name Haertlé), a resident of Nantes, and sent to the editors and footnote authors (Prof. Anna Janicka and Prof. Jarosław Ławski of the University of Białystok) by Dr. Hanna Libera of Essen. The memoirs were previously handed over in typescript to the Museum of Nature and Lutosławski Manor in Drozdowo near Łomża. The Memoirs shed new light on the history of Casanova’s and Lutosławski’s descendants, show the ideological choices of the Polish landowning community, and their fate during the First and Second World Wars. Halina Meissner, known as Halita, also shows from her own perspective the relationship of her parents, Sofía and Wincenty, which ended with their separation.