Szymon Marcin Kossakowski
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Biography
He participated in the Radom Confederation and the Bar Confederation. He was known as a supporter of the Russian Empire during the Kościuszko Uprising and earlier, he was deemed a traitor. In the aftermath of the Vilnius Uprising, he was captured and hanged[1] in the town hall square of Vilnius with the inscription of He who swings will not drown and was buried in the cellars of the church in Jonava.[2]
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