II. Rákóczi Ferenc Lengyelországban
Francis II Rákóczi in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the life of Francis II Rákóczi, the leader of the Hungarian antiHabsburg uprising at the beginning of the 18th century, in the years 1701–1703 and 1711– 1712, when he lived in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. During that time, the last ruler of independent Transylvania faced ill fate and loneliness, but never abandoned his efforts to return to Hungary. After the fall of the 1711 Hungarian uprising he went to Poland, where at first he stayed at the estate of a Polish noblewoman Elżbieta Sieniawska. Afterwards, he went to Gdańsk and spent almost a year there. At the end of 1712 he sailed away to France in hope of gaining Louis XIV’s support for the “Hungarian cause”.

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