Henryk Rzewuski
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| Coat of arms | Krzywda |
| Consort | Julia Justyna Grocholska h. Syrokomla |
| Noble family | Rzewuski |
| Father | Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski |
| Mother | Justyna Rdułtowska h. Drogosław |
| Born | 3 May 1791 Slavuta |
| Died | 28 February 1866 Chudniv |
Henryk Rzewuski (Slavuta, Volyn, 3 May 1791 – 28 February 1866, Chudniv, Volyn) was a Polish Romantic-era journalist and novelist.
Count Henryk Rzewuski was a scion of a Polish magnate family in Ukraine. He was the son of Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski, a Russian senator who resided in St. Petersburg; a great-nephew of a Targowica confederate; and great-grandson of Wacław Rzewuski, Polish Great Crown Hetman who had been exiled in 1767–73 to Kaluga by Russian ambassador to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Nikolai Repnin, who was effectively running the Commonwealth.
Henryk Rzewuski was, further, the brother of Karolina Sobańska (who became an agent of the Russian secret service and mistress of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz),Ewelina Hańska (who married Honoré de Balzac), and Russian General Adam Rzewuski.
In his youth, Rzewuski served in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw, participating in the Duchy's brief 1809 war with Austria. In 1845–50, in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Michał Grabowski he headed a conservative, Russian-aligned "St. Petersburg coterie" and contributed to the Polish Tygodnik Petersburski (The St. Petersburg Weekly).
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