They have two amiable sisters, one, Mandzia, married to Count Kazimir Lubinski, and the second, Paulina, married to Gorski. Their mother, the dowager Countess Joseph Krasinska, whose maiden name was Countess Emily Ossolinska, is still alive, and was remarkable, no less for her great beauty and fidelity to her husband, under the most trying circumstances, than for her cheerful spirit.
The head of the fourth branch is the author, political emigrant since 1831; he has two younger brothers, namely, Boleslaus, who divorced the wife of Colonel Breanski, an emigrant, specially cherished by Prince Czartoryski; and Vincent, married to Miss Eustachia Swientoslawska. The former received an excellent education, and inherited the principal part of the property of our uncle (Isldor), the late Polish minister for the war department. He resides at lanikof. The second, whose education was neglected, lives at Siemiennitze. Both are of quiet, easy dispositions, and are fond of country life, without being fond of shooting. The former was engaged in the last war, and the other not. The former has no children. The second is blessed with four of them. Our only sister, Adela, married to the late General Malecki, resides at Zbozenna. She speaks seven languages. She has a daughter.
There are three gener.ations of Count Korwin Krasinski's family. The head of the first is the general alluded to; and to the abovenamed generation, besides him, belong Peter, Leopold, and Augustus Krasinski.
The author is head of the second generation, and it includes Stanislaus, Sigismundus, Boleslaus, Charles, Vincent, and Adam Krasinski. The youthful son of Augustus Krasinski is the head of the third generation, and it comprises the two sons of Sigismundus, the children of Stanislaus, and the children of the author's brother Vincent. All the abovenamed Korwin-Slepowron Krasinski, belonging to four branches and three generations of that family, are Roman Cathohcs, though by no means fanatics. They are each entitled Count in the registration of their birth, and their fathers paid something for legalizing their title after the partition of Poland, but such title not being Polish, it was not held in much regard by them, and seldom mentioned, except on the address of a letter. They were generally designated by their Christian and surnames. The late Emperor Napoleon, however, wishing to reward the feats of General Count Vincent Krasinski, and his unshaken fidelity to his imperial person, created him also a Count of the French empire; but that title (of which he is very proud, and which is acknoAvledged by the Emperor of Russia), is limited to the general himself, his son, and grandsons. It may be further remarked that the late Emperor Alexander, as king of Poland, not only confirmed the general's possession of the lands temporarily granted to him in Poland by Kapoleon, as an inheritance, but it is said, desired to confer on him the title of a prince, which honour the general, thinking that he had not the proper opportunity to deserve, begged his Imperial Majesty's permission to decline.
Besides the relationship of the Korwin-Iasinski family to two dynasties of the ancient kings of Hungary, it is allied to other regal families, in the following manner:— Countess Frances Krasinska married, at Warsaw, Nov. 4, 1 7 60, the Prince Royal of Poland, Charles Duke of Courland, son of Augustus III. King of Poland and Saxony. Their only daughter, the Princess Mary, born at Dresden, espoused, after the death of her parents. Prince Carignan of Savoy, whose descendants are closely connected with the reigning families of Lombardy and Sardinia.
After the conquest of Moscow by the celebrated Polish chieftain Zulkiewski, who vanquished, dethroned, and took prisoner the czar Szuyski, in 1610, a new Russian dynasty (called Romanoff) was elected to the throne of Russia, in consequence of which, after the death of the captive czar Szuyski, in Poland, his relatives, fearing the persecution of the above-mentioned dynasty, left Russia, turned Roman Catholics, and established themselves in Poland.
The author's grandmother, whose maiden name was Princess Anna Szuyska, and who married, firstly. Count Krasicki (pronounced Krasitski), and, secondly, John Orzeszko, and died twenty-five years ago, at Warsaw, was one of the last female descendants of that family. She was very proud of her noble descent, and used a crown (mitra) in her armorial bearings. Her mother was an Italian lady, connected with the powerful Sardinian family of Oreglio, and her grandmother was a native of England. Thus, north and south of Europe, Korwin Krasinski's family was, and still is, distantly related to sovereign houses.