Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887) - Polish writer, publicist, publisher, author of books on history and ethnography. Member of the Academy of Knowledge in Krakow (1872). He was distinguished by extraordinary fertility - the literary heritage consists of about 600 volumes of novels and short stories, poetic and dramatic works, as well as works on history, ethnography, folklore, travel essays, journalistic and literary-critical articles. The eighth volume of the Collected Works includes a historical novel from the time of Jan Casimir "God's Wrath" and the novel "Children of the Century."