Paweł Rzechowski vel Rechowski, pisarz grodzki kijowski — adaptacja Polaka do funkcjonowania w środowisku szlachty ruskiej na Kijowszczyźnie w czasach Zygmunta II
Borough Clerk of Kiev — Adaptation of a Pole to Functioning in the Milieu of Ruthenian Nobility in the Province of Kiev under King Sigismund III

Summary/Abstract: Paweł Rzechowski, who died in 1629, a long-serving borough clerk of Kiev, is an example of the adaptation of a newcomer from the Polish lands to the Ukrainian lands. His career began with attorneyship in the courts of Volhynia. It led Rzechowski to the position of a leader of the nobility in the Kiev province, elected as a deputy and member of a deputation to the Tribunal. Rzechowski adapted to the requirements of his milieu — knowledge of the Ruthenian language, of the local legal system (the so-called Volhynian Statute), respect for the Orthodox Church. There are many similar examples of Poles operating in the first half of the seventeenth century in the Ukrainian lands of the Commonwealth.

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