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Lisowczycy
Sign in to savethumb|The Polish Rider by [[Rembrandt. A Lisowczyk may be the subject of one of the Dutch master's greatest works. Though the rider's identity is not known, one theory is that it is a portrait of Grand Chancellor of Lithuania Marcjan Aleksander Oginski, made in c.1655. It has little to do with the Lisowczycy, though much of the clothing and war gear would have been similar that worn by the real Lisowczyks of 30 years earlier.]] thumb|Lisowczyk – painting by Juliusz Kossak, circa 1860-65, after Rembrandt. [[National Museum in Warsaw.]] Lisowczyks or Lisowczycy (; also known as Straceńcy ('lost
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10 sectionsContents
- Prologue: the konfederacja
- Trial of Blood: the Dymitriad
- Lisowski's soldiers in Northern Russia (1612–1613)
- Death of Lisowski, birth of the Lisowczycy
- Devils in the Holy Empire
- Cecora and Chocim (Khotyn)
- Epilogue
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
thumb|The Polish Rider by [[Rembrandt. A Lisowczyk may be the subject of one of the Dutch master's greatest works. Though the rider's identity is not known, one theory is that it is a portrait of Grand Chancellor of Lithuania Marcjan Aleksander Oginski, made in c.1655. It has little to do with the Lisowczycy, though much of the clothing and war gear would have been similar that worn by the real Lisowczyks of 30 years earlier.]] thumb|Lisowczyk – painting by Juliusz Kossak, circa 1860-65, after Rembrandt. [[National Museum in Warsaw.]] Lisowczyks or Lisowczycy (; also known as Straceńcy ('lost men' or 'forlorn hope') or (company of ); or in singular form: Lisowczyk or '''''') was the name of an early 17th-century irregular unit of the Polish–Lithuanian light cavalry. The Lisowczycy took part in many battles across Europe and the historical accounts of the period characterized them as extremely agile, warlike, and bloodthirsty. Their numbers varied with time, from a few hundred to several thousand.
thumb|Lisowczycy (Archery) – painting by Józef Brandt, 1885, Kościuszko Foundation in New York