one of the most prominent Polish writers of Belarusian origin, political publicist, intelligence officer, soldier of the Kraiów Army.
S. Piaseckij wrote about the reality of life on the Polish-USSR border and satirically ridiculed "people's democracy".
S. Piaseckij was the illegitimate son of a poor wealthy Polish nobleman, Mikhail Piaseckij, and a Belarusian peasant, Klavdija Kulakovic. Russian was spoken in the family. He graduated from the Russian-speaking gymnasium. The October Revolution changed his life - S. Piasecki became an anti-communist and, at the age of nineteen, joined the Belarusian anti-Soviet, separatist movement "Green Oak. 1920 joined the Lithuanian-Belarusian division in the Polish army. Participated in the Battle of Warsaw. In Poland, S. Piasecki completed an officer's course and was recruited by military intelligence. However, it is said that after leaving the army, he engaged in check forgery and pornography production in Vilnius. Later, he was tasked with organizing a network of residents on the border, as he spoke Polish, Russian, and Belarusian equally well. Therefore, S. Piaseckij moved to the town of Rakovo, near Minsk, which, according to the Riga Peace Treaty, became a Polish border point and, in fact, the capital of smugglers. For five years, S. Piaseckij engaged in smuggling and intelligence, going to the territory of Soviet Belarus. But he got into cocaine, which was a serious problem. As a result of several scandals in Minsk, intelligence officers decided to cut ties with S. Piasecki. Already in Poland, S. Piasecki organized a criminal group: he robbed trains with former smugglers, until he was arrested in 1927. sentenced to 15 years. After the start of the Second World War, S. Piaseckij found himself in Vilnius, where he became a member of an anti-fascist organization, and later participated in the formation of Armija Krajova in the Vilnius Region. He was offered to lead a special unit responsible for the execution of the death penalty. S. Piaseckij organized the escape of the famous Polish emigration writer Juzefs Mackievičias from the Vilnius Gestapo. in 1946 S. Piasecki emigrates to the West: first to Italy, then to Great Britain. Until his death from cancer, he wrote and lived modestly. Buried in Hastings, UK.
