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Biography
Władysław Tyszkiewicz was a Polish landowner from the Vilnius region, count, and owner of the estate in Landwarów near Trakai.
He was the son of Józef, the owner of the estate in Kretinga, and Zofia née Horwatt, brother of Aleksander. His sister Zofia married Henryk Dembiński. In 1886 he graduated from the Law School in St. Petersburg, and then worked as a justice of the peace in Riga. As the heir of the Tyszkiewicz family, he received estates in Landwarów and Korsaki. At the end of the 19th century he moved to Warsaw, where he was socially active, including: as a member of the Adam Mickiewicz Monument Construction Committee and the Philharmonic Construction Committee. In 1903, he headed the Warsaw Society for the Promotion of Polish Industry and Trade. Without losing his links with his native Lithuania, he was, among others, member of the Council of the Vilnius Agricultural Society and sat on the Committee of the Agricultural Exhibition in Vilnius.
In 1905, he announced a memorial demanding the abolition of restrictions against Poles living in Lithuania and ensuring their national rights (including to Polish education, he also headed the delegation that handed Prime Minister Witte a petition regarding the Polonization of education in the Vistula Land).
Repressed by the tsarist authorities for his national activities, he was twice exiled to the Arkhangelsk Governorate (1904, 1906). After his release, he stayed in Italy for some time, where he founded the "Warowland" antique shop in Milan (the name referring to his hometown, Landwarów).
On May 3, 1906, he was elected a member of the First Duma from the Warsaw district, and sat in the Polish Circle in St. Petersburg. He was a member of the Duma's address committee, where he sought to grant political autonomy to the Vistula Land. He protested against the growing anti-Semitism - in October 1907, he submitted a memorial to Prime Minister Stolypin demanding that the authorities prevent pogroms and establish the legal position of Jews in the Empire.
After the outbreak of World War I, he worked for the Red Cross in the Caucasus. He continued his links with this institution after Poland regained independence - he was a government commissioner of the Polish Red Cross.
Married to Maria Krystyna Lubomirska (d. 1958), they had four children: Zofia Róża, Stefan, Róża and Eugeniusz Stanisław.
He died in Landwarów on September 21, 1936 and was buried in the local church, which was to become the grave chapel of the Tyszkiewicz family. These plans were not implemented due to the separation of the Vilnius region from Poland after the end of World War II.