Smolensk War of 1632–1634 in Printed Polish Diaries. Structures of Relation and Narrative Perspectives

Niniejszy artykuł to pierwsza publikacja oryginalnej wersji tekstu, którego rosyjski przekład w ubiegłym roku ukazał się w miesięczniku „Kraj Smolenskij” (М. Bauer, Osvieszczenie Smolenskoj vojny 1632–1634 godov v polskich dnevnikach. Struktury relacij i narrativnyje pierspektivy, „Kraj smolenskij. Nauczno-populiarnyj zurnal”, 2013 nr 10, s. 16–20)Paper discusses three diaries written during the war of 1632–1634 between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia, in which a tzar’s army attempted to retake the Smolensk fortress that was lost 21 years earlier. First of them was conducted by unknown member of king’s Vladislav IV Vasa chancellery, the second is an epistolary diary by Jan Moskorzowski, the secretary and officer of Lithuanian high commander Krzysztof Radziwiłł whose official post-war statement to the Commonwealth’s Seym is the third. Confrontation of these three relations from the same events is an occasion to compare its literary aspects