Links between Jan Kasprowicz and Lenin

[Jaga]

Everybody in Poland knows who Jan Kasprowicz was. He was a poet and he was very much linked to Polish mountains and its folklore. He also translated many classical works from many different languages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kasprowicz

He and Lenin were connected in some ways. Who knows?

[Jaga]

OK,

some hints - first Kasprowicz helped Lenin, then Lenin helped Kasprowicz family (after the revolution)

[pieter]

Lenin in Cracow

Lenin’s house in the village of Poronin was searched on August 7, 1914, made on the basis information that accused him of being a spy. During the search the gendarme officer took away the manuscript of Lenin’s book on the agrarian question in the belief that the statistical tables given in it represented a coded message, and ordered Lenin to present himself to the military authorities in the town of Nowy Targ the next morning. On arriving there the next day Lenin was arrested and imprisoned. His arrest evoked active protests on the part of progressive elements among the Polish public. The Polish Social-Democrats Jakub Hanecki and S. Bagocki, the Zakopane doctor and one-time member of Narodnaya Volya Dluski, the well-known Polish writers Jan Kasprowicz, Wladyslaw Orkan and others came out in his defence. At the request of Nadezhda Krupskaya, Austrian M.P.s Victor Adler and Herman Diamand, who knew Lenin as a member of the International Socialist Bureau, interceded with the government on his behalf and offered to act as guarantor for him. The charge of espionage was so absurd that the Cracow police admitted that there is nothing reprehensible here against Ulyanov and on August 19 he was released.

Lenin himself wrote:
The local police suspect me of espionage. I lived in Cracow for two years, in Zwiezsynice and 51 Ul. Lubomirskiego. I personally gave information about myself to the commissary of police in Zwiezsynice. I am an emigrant, a Social-Democrat. Please wire Poronin and mayor of Nowy Targ to avoid misunderstanding.

Ulyanov

[Jaga]

Pieter,

thanks for reminding this story. Yes, Lenin was arrested and kept in the prison in Nowy Targ and Kasprowicz helped to release him.
Later Lening came to Kasprowicz home to thank him.

Now, in what way Lenin helped the Kasprowicz's family after revolution?

hint: the last wife of Kasprowicz's was Russian from an influencial family, Maria Bunin.

[Jaga]

Nobody answered the second part of the question. Kasprowicz's last wife Marusia was Russian from St. Petersburg, from the aristocratic family of Bunin. When the revolution started, Kasprowicz wrote the telegraph (or registered letter, I am not sure now) to Lenin about Marusia family and whether he would let them to leave Russia. Lenin responded very quickly that he would helped out! He did, Lenin people came to their house and helped them to leave safely to Poland.