Księżnej Anny z Zamoyskich Sapieżyny żywot pracowity. Działalność księżnej Anny w dobrach sapieżyńskich
Duchess Anna Sapieżyna née Zamoyskas busy life. Duchess Annas activity in the Sapieżyński estate

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns certain aspects of economic activities of Anna Sapieżyna, with specialemphasis placed on the territories of Congress Poland and Taken Lands on the east of theBug river. The author focuses on the financial situation of the landed properties and how theduchess managed them. Anna Sapieżyna (1772–1858) was married to Aleksander Sapieha in1794. In 1799, she gave birth to her daughter Anna, and in 1803 to her son Leon. In 1817, thedaughter married A.J. Czartoryski. After the fall of the November Uprising in 1831, the duch-ess strived to save the family fortune from confiscation by the tsar as punishment for her sonand son in laws participation in the Uprising. The duchess managed the rescued properties byherself, and was the sole decision-maker, with the employees only following her instructions.In the landed properties, an early version of crop rotation was implemented. The duchess hada good understanding of the mechanisms of the financial market. The money from the agricul-tural activities was invested in banks and exchange offices, various European markets as wellas bonds issued by Congress Poland, Prussia and Russia. The returns were then invested intoland properties in France, the Grand Duchy of Posen and Galicia.

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