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Czartoryski, Prince Adam Jerzy

Czartoryski, Prince Adam Jerzy, , was unquestionably the greatest Polish statesmen and diplomat of the 19th c entury. Educated in the liberal concepts of Enlightenment, Czartoryski, throughout his long career, developed and devoted himself to a program designed to restructure Europe, to end repression, and to build a community of free and independent states, including a reconstituted Poland.

He began his distinguished career as friend, advisor and foreign minister of Tsar Alexander I.

After the Napoleonic Wars, Alexander's turn toward conservatism and his failure to implement reforms in Russi a disappointed Czartoryski.

At the Congress of Vienna Prince Adam's advocacy for an independent Poland led to the creation of the Congress Kingdom, a rump state under the monarchy of Alexander I. Czartoryski briefly retired from political life to a post as curator of Wilno University.

The accession of Nicholas I, the increasing repression of Poles an