Amit a gróf mesél a barokk keretből (I.)
What the Count Tells Us…

Summary/Abstract: The author of this essay attempts to give a biographical sketch of Count István Széchenyi's life on the basis of the 260 letters collected in the volume “This Between Us! God Bless You!” The most important turning points of Széchenyi's life and the changes in his character are reinterpreted along the lines of the author's original research concerning the problematic aspects of the Count's career: his relationship with his parents, especially with his father; his complicated friendship in his youth with the Transylvanian Baron, Miklós Wesselényi; his multifarious activities in matters of state and country; his controversial nexus to Austrian politician Prince Klemens von Metternich; his stand-taking with regard to the governmental politics of the Hungary of his times; his dramatic disputes with leading Hungarian politician Lajos Kossuth; the collapse of the revolution and the war with the Habsburg Empire in 1848-49; the new phase of his resistance in the lunatic asylum of Döbling; his fight against the totalitarian “Bach-regime” in the 1850s, and, finally, the tragic denouement.

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