EUGEN KVATERNIK – THREE LETTERS (1861 – 1862)

Sažetak U ovom se radu, nakon kratkog uvoda o političkom djelovanju političara, diplomata i revolucionara Eugena Kvaternika (1825.-1871.) prilažu tri pisma (dva koje je napisao Kvaternik – Ivanu Mažuraniću i austrijskom ministru vanjskih poslova grofu J. Rechbergu – i jedno upućeno Kvaterniku od prve jezgre pravaških pristalica iz Hrvatskog zagorja). Pisma su pisana u nešto više od jedne godine (siječanj, 1861. – veljača, 1862.), nakon Kvaternikovog povrataka u Hrvatsku u studenom 1860. i njegova sudjelovanja na Hrvatskom saboru 1861. godine. Svako pismo zrcali određeni politički trenutak. U prvom pismu (siječanj, 1861.) Kvaternik šalje Mažuraniću primjerak svoje nove knjige (Politička razmatranja, I. svezak) i upozorava ga na političke probleme koji stoje pred njim. Drugo pismo pišu pristaše Stranke prava iz Hrvatskog zagorja slaveći Kvaternikove ideje o samostalnoj Hrvatskoj koje je on izrekao na sjednici Hrvatskog sabora (pismo je bez datuma i mjesta, ali najvjerovatnije je pisano nekoliko mjeseci nakon zasjedanja Sabora u travnju 1861.). U trećem pismu (veljača, 1862.) austrijskom ministru vanjskih poslova grofu Rechbergu prosvjeduje zbog toga što je zaustavljeno tiskanje i zaplijenjena njegova knjiga (Politička razmatranja, II. svezak). U pismu Rechbergu Kvaternik se žali na politiku I. Mažuranića iM. Ožegovića kao nedostojnu hrvatskog naroda.Following a short introduction on the political activities of Eugen Kvaternik (1825 – 1871), politician, diplomat and revolutionary, there are three letters attached to this paper (two written by Eugen Kvaternik and addressed to Ivan Mažuranić and the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Count J. Rechberg, and there is one letter addressed to Kvaternik by the first core of Croatian Party of Right Movement Followers coming from Hrvatsko zagorje). The letters were written during a period amounting to just slightly over a year (January 1861 – February 1862) following Kvaternik’s return to Croatia in November of 1860 and his participating in the Croatian Parliament in 1861. Each of the letters mirrors a certain political moment. Kvaternik sent a copy of his new book to Mažuranić (Politička razmatranja, I. svezak – Political Reflections, Volume I) along with his first letter (January 1861) warning Mažuranić about the political problems he was facing. With his second letter (dated February, 1862) addressed to Count Rechberg, Austrian Minister of foreign affairs, Kvaternik protests because the printing of his book (Politička razmatranja, II. svezak – Political Reflections Volume II) had been stopped and the book confiscated. In his letter to Rechberg, Kvaternik complains about the politics of I. Mažuranić and M. Ožegović as something unworthy of Croatian people. The third letter was written by the Croatian Party of Right Movement Followers from Hrvatsko Zagorje praising Kvaternik’s idea about an independent Croatia he had put forward during the Croatian Parliament session (the letter contains no information on the date or place it had been written, but this was probably several months after the Parliament’s session in April of 1861)