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We also went to see the wife of the Grand-General Branicki.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Branicki, and Severin Rzewuski, went to Petersburg to lay their grievances before her.
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Count Branicki in 1766 (vol. x., pp. 274-320), an affair which attracted
Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905
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After my student days I obtained, through the influence of a high Government official named Branicki, a friend of my father, a clerical post in the bureau of political police of the Empire, a department of the Ministry of the Interior, and for several years pursued a calm, uneventful life in that capacity.
The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia William Le Queux 1895
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I made up my mind that Madame Binetti had excited Branicki to follow me, and possibly to treat me as he had treated Tomatis.
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If Branicki refused to fight I should be compelled to kill him, even if I were to lose my head for it.
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Nine months afterwards, I lost it through being embroiled in a pistol duel with General Branicki; I pierced his abdomen but in eight months he was well again and I was very much pleased.
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Venetian Casanova of Saint-Gall, a true savant, who fought a duel with Count Branicki: the Baron de Poellnitz ... the lucky Count
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This Branicki was said to have been originally a Cossack, Branecki by name.
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Fortunately, Branicki had not lost consciousness or the power of speaking, and he cried out in a voice of thunder, — “Scoundrels! have some respect for a man of honour.”
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