Mieczysław Jałowiecki

Mieczysław Perejasławski-Jałowiecki (2 December 1876 – 1962 ) was a Polish diplomat, agronomist, writer and nobleman.

Early life and education Mieczysław was born in his family manor in Saldutiškis (then in the Russian Empire, now in Lithuania). His mother, Aniela, was a sister of Stanisław Witkiewicz; she was also a relative of the Piłsudski family. His father, general , was an engineer, the grandson of an Imperial Russian Army general who sided with the Polish-Lithuanian 1830–31 insurgents during the November Uprising and was sentenced to death, but pardoned.

He graduated from the Riga Technical University, studying agronomics and chemistry, finishing agronomics studies. he was involved in direct negotiations with the Lithuanian president Antanas Smetona.

Later life After German invasion of Poland he left for the United Kingdom, where he was a politician and social activist in the Polish government in exile. He stayed in the UK after the war. Till his death he was involved in the activities of the British Polonia, publishing books and brochures about agronomics and about his homeland. In 1962 he died near London.

Mieczysław was also a writer and has published several books in the Polish language about his diplomatic career and on agronomic subjects. He also wrote a diary trilogy, describing his life in Na skraju imperium, Wolne Miasto and Requiem dla ziemiaństwa.