Casimir Dunin Markievicz (Polish: Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz
[kaˈÊ'imjÉ›Ê Ëˆduɲin marˈkʲɛvitÊ‚], 15 March 1874 â€" 2 December
1932), known as Count Markievicz, was a Polish playwright, theatre
director, and painter, and the husband of the Irish revolutionary
Constance Markievicz.The Dunin Markievicz family held land in
Malopolska Province (today Ukraine), and had an estate in a town of
Zywotow (Polish: Żywotówka; now Zhyvotivka [uk]) where Casimir grew
up.[1] Markievicz attended the State Gymnasium in Kherson, and studied
law at the University in Kyiv[1] which at that time still held a vast
polish minority.[2], [3] In 1895, Nobleman transferred to the École
des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While in Paris, he met and married Jadwiga
Splawa-Neyman. They had two sons, Stanislas and Ryszard, but the
marriage did not last. Jadwiga returned to Ukraine where she and
Ryszard died in 1899.[4] He met Constance Gore-Booth in 1899, and the
two mixed in the bohemian Paris society of the time.In Paris,
Markievicz styled himself as "Count Markievicz". When Constance's
family enquired as to the validity of the title, they were informed
through Pyotr Rachkovsky of the Russian Secret Police that he had
taken the title "without right", and that there had never been a
"Count Markievicz" in Poland.[5] However, the Department of Genealogy
in Saint Petersburg said that he was entitled to claim to be a member
of the "Szlachta", of whom there were several hundred thousand in
1900.[6] Markievicz and Gore-Booth married in London in 1900, and
their daughter, Maeve, was born the following year.[7] From 1902 the
couple lived in Dublin. He continued to be known as "Count Markievicz"
(and Constance as "Countess Markievicz"), and in the 1911 census gave
his occupation as "Count (Russian nobility)".[8] Stanislas later said
in a letter that his father had not been a count.[9]
[kaˈÊ'imjÉ›Ê Ëˆduɲin marˈkʲɛvitÊ‚], 15 March 1874 â€" 2 December
1932), known as Count Markievicz, was a Polish playwright, theatre
director, and painter, and the husband of the Irish revolutionary
Constance Markievicz.The Dunin Markievicz family held land in
Malopolska Province (today Ukraine), and had an estate in a town of
Zywotow (Polish: Żywotówka; now Zhyvotivka [uk]) where Casimir grew
up.[1] Markievicz attended the State Gymnasium in Kherson, and studied
law at the University in Kyiv[1] which at that time still held a vast
polish minority.[2], [3] In 1895, Nobleman transferred to the École
des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While in Paris, he met and married Jadwiga
Splawa-Neyman. They had two sons, Stanislas and Ryszard, but the
marriage did not last. Jadwiga returned to Ukraine where she and
Ryszard died in 1899.[4] He met Constance Gore-Booth in 1899, and the
two mixed in the bohemian Paris society of the time.In Paris,
Markievicz styled himself as "Count Markievicz". When Constance's
family enquired as to the validity of the title, they were informed
through Pyotr Rachkovsky of the Russian Secret Police that he had
taken the title "without right", and that there had never been a
"Count Markievicz" in Poland.[5] However, the Department of Genealogy
in Saint Petersburg said that he was entitled to claim to be a member
of the "Szlachta", of whom there were several hundred thousand in
1900.[6] Markievicz and Gore-Booth married in London in 1900, and
their daughter, Maeve, was born the following year.[7] From 1902 the
couple lived in Dublin. He continued to be known as "Count Markievicz"
(and Constance as "Countess Markievicz"), and in the 1911 census gave
his occupation as "Count (Russian nobility)".[8] Stanislas later said
in a letter that his father had not been a count.[9]
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