Major Ludwik Baron Chlopicki. From a drawing made in 1830 during the
revolution that failed.
is evidence this act did not please the younger men who had instigated the revolution, and that it estranged his fire brand nephew. The better judgment of the old General early realized the utter hopelessness of this war against so powerful a nation, and he escaped any severe punishment by the Russians, living a retired life until his death in 1854. Thousands of the patriotic Poles were exiled into Siberia. Ludwik and a group of the minor aristocracy managed to get into Austria, where once more these angry men who had lost all their lands and property fomented revolution against the Russians in Poland, then partitioned. Austria was a party to the bad peace, so they imprisoned Ludwik and the others for violating Austrian neutrality; thus the second try at a revolution under General Zaliwski was put down before it got well under way. Ludwik was imprisoned first at Lemberg, then Brunn and finally in crowded cells at Trieste.17
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