css Amalia Oginska

TALES FROM MY FAMILY TREE

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Iwo Załuski

The Varied Adventures of the Załuski Clan

The Załuski Clan was a very tightly-knit and close family unit, which was not surprising as they were the children of Karol and Amelia Załuska, the founders of the spa estate of Iwonicz, in the Carpathian Mountains of what was then the Austrian province of Galicia. Amelia, eldest daughter of Polish composer Prince Michał Kleofas Ogiński and redoubtable earth-mother, had instilled a strong sense of family loyalty and mutual support in all her nine surviving children (two boys and a set of twins died in infancy), from the eldest, Michał who, with his wife Lena ran Iwonicz, to the youngest, Franciszka, known as Fanny. This loyalty and support came to the fore on countless occasions, perhaps none more dramatic than the one during the bloody Uprising of 1862 in Russian Poland.

Stanisław, the fourth boy, was born in Iwonicz in 1838, the first of the Załuski children to have been born there. He was a natural rebel whose teenage years had been fraught with angst and confrontation. When he heard the news of the Uprising, Stanisław decided to cross into what was the Kingdom of Poland to join in the struggle against Russian rule. For many months there had been no further news of him, and he was almost given up for dead. Then, in 1864, the Clan learned that Stanisław had been seriously wounded in battle, and was being held prisoner by the Russians.

This was the cue for the Clan to galvanise themselves into action, starting with Stanisław’s brother, Ireneusz. Two years older than Stanisław, Ireneusz was also no stranger to confrontation and adventure, and shared with his younger brother strong feelings of patriotism as well as family loyalty and liberal steak of anarchic attitude. He crossed into Poland with the intention of rescuing his brother and bringing him home. After a while, in the absence of any developments or news, it was Fanny’s turn to take action. Since 1860 Fanny, the baby of the Clan, had been married to Count Witold Żeleński, a man considerably older than herself.

Fanny was lively and irrepressible, and found marriage to a much older man inhibiting. She was considered to be a real chip off her mother’s block, and laid down her own, personal skein of family legends in her wake, starting with her part in springing her brother from Russian captivity. Many years later, writer Jossleyn Hennessy, grandson of Fanny’s older sister Ida Seilern, pieced the story together from contemporary letters: “Amelia’s youngest daughter, Fanny... my mother’s favourite aunt, proved herself to be a true daughter of Amelia. She crossed the Russian frontier into the area of guerilla fighting and sought out the Russian General Prince Shahovskoi, to beg him to allow her to take her wounded brother away. The Prince, my mother writes, received kindly the young woman – she was just twenty years old and extremely pretty, but said that he could not free Stanisław without orders from St Petersburg. He added, however, that she could visit her brother, who was in a house some miles away, and because there was fighting everywhere in the area, he gallantly gave her a military escort. The local Polish peasants, seeing Russian uniforms, gave purposely misleading directions, so that Fanny and her escort wandered in circles throughout the night. When Fanny grasped this, she dismissed the escort with thanks, plunged on alone, and found not only the wounded Stanisław but also Ireneusz! He had risked returning to Poland to find his brother. A quick consultation decided that Fanny should distract the General’s attention by urging him to obtain a pardon for Stanisław, while Ireneusz played a lone hand. Dressed as a peasant, he smuggled the wounded Stanisław across the frontier beneath a pile of hay in a cart.”

And that is how Ireneusz, Stanisław and the chip-off-the-old-block Fanny returned to Iwonicz to dine off the story for years to come.

The years, however, were very few for Ireneusz, whose life was dramatically cut short only four years later. The third son of Karol and Amelia Załuski, Ireneusz was born in Memel, today the Lithuanian Baltic town of Klaipeda, in 1835. As a child he was sickly and frail, and needed constant attention from his mother. He was only three years old when the family moved to Iwonicz. Unlike his brothers, who were all educated at Vienna’s prestigious Theresianium as aristocrats of the Austrian Empire, Ireneusz was kept at home where he was educated by his mother. In his late teens he was considered strong enough to be sent to Rome to study sculpture, in which he showed exceptional promise. “Give him time,” said Oskar Sosnowski, Ireneusz’s master, guru and fellow-sculptor, “and you will one day build a monument to his life.”

A year after his Polish adventure, Ireneusz was summoned to Vienna, where he was appointed Court Chamberlain, and commissioned by Emperor Franz Josef to sculpt busts of himself and Empress Elisabeth. A glittering career was his for the taking.

Then, in 1866, the year of the Austro-Prussian War, Ireneusz put his career on hold to join Count Rensdorff’s Uhlan Regiment to fight Bismarck at Sadowa - Königgrätz in German. The battle was bloody, and ended in Austria’s defeat, although Ireneusz distinguished himself, and was promoted.

When not fighting, Ireneusz sculpted, and his reputation was growing. The flamboyant “rhapsodic” romanticism of his busts, which became his speciality, and the remarkable, textural likenesses of his representations had earned him early recognition at the highest levels. Prince Clemens Metternich, the former Austrian Chancellor, who, despite his fall from power in 1848, was still a highly respected critic of the arts until his death in 1859, had spoken very highly of his work. Among Ireneusz’s early successes were the busts of Talleyrand, his uncle General Józef Załuski, and his eldest brother Michał. He was also responsible for the Madonna on the tomb of his mother, who had died in 1857 on the Italian island of Ischia, where she was buried. Exhibitions of his work evinced the highest critical acclaim in Vienna, Paris and Dresden. Emperor Franz Josef presented Ireneusz’s busts of himself and his Empress as a gift to Emperor Napoleon III of France, whose appreciation and approval bore further fruit: he was commissioned to open a workshop of sculpture in Paris.

At the beginning of 1868, the Załuski Clan saw Ireneusz off on his new French adventure. His first port of call was Dresden, where he had been mostly living in recent years. At the end of February he attended a ball there, at which he was insulted and abused by a total stranger. It seemed that this malcontent had been a neighbour of the Załuskis in Lithuania, had suffered a slight by them which had besmirched his family’s honour, and now demanded satisfaction. Ireneusz, who had not been to Lithuania since he was three, knew neither the man nor his family, nor had he any idea of the incident in question – which is not documented – ignored him. His uncomprehending response evinced no let-up from his enraged accuser, and Ireneusz’s volatile temper probably contributed to his being challenged to a duel. This took place in a wooded glade at dawn on February 27. Pistols were the chosen weapon.

The duel was only indirectly conclusive. The only blood came from Ireneusz’s left knee, which was shattered as a result of a bullet that had ricocheted off a stone. But it was very painful, and he had to be taken to hospital. The news reached his older brother, pianist and composer – and later Imperial Ambassador – Karol Bernard, who was at the time an attaché at the Austrian Embassy in Berlin. Karol Bernard, whose sense of family loyalty was legendary, lost no time in getting to Dresden. Also their sister Fanny came frequently, and she and Karol Bernard took turns over the ensuing weeks to be with Ireneusz, to ensure that he was never alone. The wound, though not in itself life-threatening, was creating complications, especially as Ireneusz had a singularly weak constitution anyway. But the problems arising from Ireneusz’s shattered knee did not improve. On May 20, after nearly three months in hospital, he died from blood poisoning as a result of gangrene. He was buried in the Catholic Cemetery in Dresden. His killer – one hesitates to use the word in such a ludicrous situation – was fined 300 thaler.

The death of Ireneusz Załuski was a severe blow to the Clan, who spent that summer mourning a dearly loved brother, a colourful, maverick character and intrepid adventurer, and an exceptionally gifted man whose brilliant career as a sculptor was so needlessly aborted.

Very little remains of this wasted life: the busts of the Imperial couple have disappeared, and his Madonna on his mother’s tomb on Ischia was destroyed by an earthquake in 1883.

All families have a black sheep somewhere in the genealogical table, and the Załuski Clan was no exception. Amelia’s great disappointment was Iwo, born in 1840, the fifth and youngest of the Załuski boys, and the one least likely to hold the Clan together in a time of crisis. In fact, wherever he went he spelt trouble and created worries for the rest of the family. He had been a sickly youth, and had failed to complete either his course at the Theresianum, or the engineering course onto which he was enrolled; shortsightedness was blamed for his lack of qualifications of any kind. Within months, the pretty little manor of Wrocanka, a Załuski possession which had been allocated to him, began to look shoddy and its park unkempt. Iwo, it seemed, was the antithesis to a conventional landowner, showing no interest in maintaining his estate. His life’s ambition was to make as much money as possible through financial speculation, and he invested every thaler in stocks and shares, without bothering about either the upkeep or the exploitation of his estate. Among the Polish aristocracy at the time this was just not done, and the mercenary Iwo was cold-shouldered. Trying to persuade him to maintain some sort of a standard at Wrocanka, which, after all, was part of the Clan’s joint possessions, was one of Michał Załuski’s greatest worries, especially in the light of the patients and visitors who were now coming to the Iwonicz spa in ever increasing numbers. Iwo was also attempting to get his brother Stanisław to part with his money for his investments, and was always trying to cream off surpluses from the common reserves, which were very sparse. There was no estate of any of the families in the region where Iwo would not try by means both legal and illegal to insinuate some financial deal to everyone’s disadvantage, except his own.

To make matters worse, whenever Michał and Lena were on their travels, which was often, Iwo would descend on Iwonicz and introduce girls of easy virtue to the bars or some clandestine gambling den, ignoring the fact that gambling in Galicia was strictly against the law. It took all of Michal’s persuasive powers to prevent his staff, whom Iwo had placed in an untenable position by ordering them to run card tables, from leaving and to expel the unrepentant Iwo back to his unkempt manor.

Michał finally wrote in exasperation to Karol Bernard, who in 1874 had just received his new posting, as Ambassador to Stockholm. Karol Bernard wrote back to Iwo, laying down the line that was expected not only of the Załuski family, but also of the younger brother of the Imperial Ambassador to the Royal Court of Sweden. The admonition fell on myopic eyes and deaf ears, and Iwo continued his degenerate lifestyle unabated, to the continuing exasperation of the Clan.

In 1881, Iwo Załuski died in Krosno, aged 41. He had been suffering from a long, unspecified illness of the lungs. He was buried in the Załuski tomb at Iwonicz.

The Author of this Chronicle, born in Iwonicz in 1939, was christened Iwo, with a specific baptismal brief: to cover up the old rascal’s bad name.

Meanwhile, Iwo’s older brother Karol Bernard’s career as a diplomat had gone a long way since the Sylistrya Affair of 1859, two years after his mother had died in his arms on Ischia. His diplomatic career was then still on hold as he tried to sort out the family inheritance, and he had not yet been posted to Persia, Japan, China of Siam. But now he took his first tentative trip out of Europe - to the Middle East. Ferdinand de Lesseps’ vision of a canal joining the Mediterranean and Red Seas looked as though it was going to be realised, which Karol Bernard found of supreme interest. And so, on April 25 1859, as de Lesseps himself turned the first spadeful of sand at the site where Port Said was to be built, Karol Bernard was there. While in Egypt, he went out of his way to listen to Egyptian music and to note down the melodies - something that he would henceforth do with every visit to a foreign land. Two months later he embarked on the SS Silistrya at Alexandria, bound for Constantinople. On June 24, on the high seas of the eastern Mediterranean, the Silistrya took on water and began to sink slowly. Karol Bernard galvanised himself into action, and took charge. As the ship foundered he personally organised the passengers into holding onto debris and improvising rafts, while he himself clung to the main mast. Thus a small handful of survivors, including himself, were later rescued, while over 200 passengers, captain and crew lost their lives. Karol Bernard lost all his luggage, including his collection of Egyptian airs, but his memory served him well, and the airs surfaced again in later years, when he published his three Volumes of “Chants Populaires en Divers Pays”.

The disaster was reported in all the European papers, and Karol Bernard himself described the whole adventure in the German literary journal, Die Dioskuren.

Two decades later, after a stint at the Court of the King of Siam, during which he took advantage of the jungles for some exploration, Karol Bernard, now a fully fledged and very experienced ambassador, returned to Vienna, only to be immediately posted abroad again, this time as a member of an international commission for the administration of Egypt’s Suez Canal debt. After all, he had been there at its inception – and survived to tell the tale.

As the century reached its close, Karol Bernard retired, having returned to Europe after his final diplomatic mission to Egypt, as Austrian representative of the International Commission for the financial administration of the Suez Canal. He brought with him his latest package of Arab and Egyptian airs for his Chants Populaires en divers pays, Volume 3. Among them was No 9, untitled, but marked “Entendu fredonner dans la rue, au Caire” (heard hummed in a Cairo street), No 13, a religious Muslim chant entitled “Musique Arabe: Sourat’ el fatiha du Coran”, a mélopée taken from “Modern Egyptians” by Edward William Lane, as is No 14, entitled “Air”. No 15 is the “Chant des sakas” – the water-carriers of Cairo, No 16, “Trois chansons”, and a dramatic and extended No 19, “Fantaisie sur des thèmes arabes.” In Cairo, curiously, Karol Bernard also picked up an English song, which he included in Volume 2 of his Chants populaires, entitled “Chansonnette anglaise.” This delightfully lightweight theme and variations is marked with the observation: “An English officer whom I heard whistling this song in Cairo told me that he didn’t know where it came from, but at that time – towards the end of the last century – everyone was whistling it in England.”

Karol Bernard spent his retirement in Viareggio, Nice and Iwonicz. In 1919, having written his Memoirs and published his numerous compositions, “Pan Ambasador Załuski” the grand and venerable old Patriarch of the Załuski Clan died, aged 85. Like his brother Iwo, Karol Bernard is buried in the Załuski tomb at Iwonicz.

Amelia Załuska was the daughter of Prince Michał Kleofas Ogiński and his Italian-born second wife, Maria, nee Neri, and formerly the Countess Nagurska. Since their marriage in 1803, following Ogiński’s divorce from his first wife, Izabela Lasocka, they lived at Ogiński’s estate at Zalesie, about half way between Vilnius and Minsk in what is today the Republic of Belarus. Amelia, the eldest of four children, was born most probably in Zalesie on December 10 1803. From an early age she showed a precocious talent for music, dancing, drawing and poetry, and, with her younger sister Emma, joined in the ethos of music-making and amateur theatricals at Zalesie. Both girls played the piano, which they were taught by Giuseppe Paliani. Ogiński wrote duets for his daughters to play, and Amelia also composed piano pieces, as well as plays with songs for home production. In 1822 she wrote a Polonaise in C minor for piano duet, which she dedicated to Emma. She also wrote two romances in the style of her father, “Mon ame aujourd’hui” and “J’aime la nuit.”

In 1826 Amelia married Count Karol Teofil Załuski a wealthy landowner with an estate at Gulbinai, in northern Lithuania, where their first two children were born. In 1831 Załuski led the Insurrection against the Russians from Panevezys, where, in the Market Square, he publicly burned Tsar Nicholas I’s proclamation of an amnesty for all rebels who laid down their arms. The Insurrection failed, and the Załuski family fled to Klaipeda, on the Baltic coast, then the city of Memel, at the northernmost tip of Prussia. There, having lost all their possessions and gained a Russian price on Załuski’s head, they spent the next five years in exile. In 1834 their second surviving son, Karol Bernard Załuski, was born.

In 1837 The Załuski's inherited the estate and spa of Iwonicz, in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in Austrian Galicia, where Amelia, in addition to running the estate and the spa, played the piano, composed, and taught all nine surviving children music. In 1845 her husband Karol Teofil Załuski died. Amelia’s health deteriorated and she moved to the island of Ischia, where she died in the arms of her favourite son, later pianist, composer and friend of Liszt, Karol Bernard.

Amelia’s surviving compositions for the piano include 2 Polonaises, one of them for piano duet, 3 Waltzes, a Polka, a Mazurka, a Marche de Cavallerie, Les Adieux a Joseph, and a set of Waltzes entitled Les Echos d’Iwonicz, published anonymously in Vienna for the benefit of the poor in 1846.

Amelija Oginskytė – Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės valstybės ir politikos veikėjo, diplomato, kompozitoriaus Mykolo Kleopo Oginskio (1765–1833) ir iš Venecijos kilusios dainininkės, Kurtuvėnų didiko Kajetono Nagurskio našlės Marijos de Neri (gimė 1764 m. Venecijoje, mirė 1851m. rugsėjo 21 d. Pizoje (Italijos Pietuose esančiame Toskanos mieste) dukra. Ji turėjo dvi seseris – Emą Ogisnkaitę-Bžostovską (1810–1871), Idą Oginskaitę (1813–?), brolį Irenėjų Kleopą (1808–1863) bei du brolius iš tėvo pirmosios santuokos su Izabele Lasocka (1764–1852) – Tadą Antonijų Oginskį (1798–1844) ir Pranciškų Ksaverą Oginskį (1801–1837). A. Oginskaitė gimė 1803 m. liepos (kitur gruodžio) 10 d. Zalesės dvare, kuris yra ant Vilijos upės kranto, pusiaukelėje tarp Vilniaus ir Minsko. Tai įvyko praėjus vos keliems mėnesiams po tėvų vestuvių. Dar vaikystėje išryškėjo Amelijos polinkis menui – piešimui, poezijai, muzikai, šokiams – ir kalboms (mokėjo anglų, italų, lenkiškų, lietuvių, lotynų, prancūzų, rusų, vokiečių kalbas). Tikėtina, kad lietuvių kalbą buvo išmokusi iš auklės ir iš tėvo, kuris taip pat šiek tiek mokėjo lietuviškai.

Nuo mažų dienų Amelija kartu su tėvais daug keliavo. Tai susipažino su Europa, jos kultūra, muzika. Ji jaunystėje pati pradėjo muzikuoti, rinkti partitūras ir kurti. Kurdavo muziką ir jos sesuo Ema. Jos kartu dalyvaudavo ir Zalesės dvare, kuriame Oginskiai gyveno, rengiamuose vaidinimuose. Ameliją ir Emą skambinti pianinu mokė italas Giuseppe Paliani (vėliau, kaip nurodo rašytiniai šaltiniai, jis, įsivėlęs į intrigas su Mykolo Kleopo Oginskio žmona, išvyko gyventi į Sankt Peterburgą). Tikėtina, kad Amelija ir Ema grodavo ir M. K. Oginskio suburtame Zalesės kvartete, kuriame kunigaikštis grieždavo pirmuoju smuiku. Spėjama, kad savo dukroms M. K. Oginskis tuo laiku galėjo rašyti ir duetus. Pianinu jos skambindavo keturiomis rankomis.

Žinoma, kad 1822 m. Amelija Oginskaitė jau buvo parašiusi polonezą C-minor duetui pianinu, dedikuotą seseriai Emai. Yra išlikę du žinomi Amelijos sukurti romansai (,,Mon ame aujourd’hui“ ir „J’aime la nuit“), kurie savo stiliumi yra labai artimi jos tėvo stiliui. Amelija taip pat kūrė polonezus, mazurkas, trumpas daineles. Jos autorystei priskiriamas ir valsų ciklas „Les Echos d’Iwonicz“ bei viena polka. Ji su seserimi Ema perdirbo savo tėvo M. K. Oginskio „Maršą-ekspromtą“. Dalis muzikinio A. Oginskaitės paveldo buvo anonimiškai išspausdinta Vienoje ir skirta 1846 m. vargšų labdaros koncertui.

Amelija taip pat rašė proginius eilėraščius, tapė.

Amelija ištekėjo 1826 m. gegužės 11 d. už turtingo Gulbinų (Biržų r.) dvarininko grafo Karolio Teofilio Zaluskio (1794–1845). Iškilmės vyko, santuoka buvo įregistruota Vilniaus karmelitų bažnyčioje. Oginskiai jau ir anksčiau giminiavosi su Zaluskiais, nes Trakų vaivada kunigaikštis Tadeušas Pranciškus Oginskis (1712–1783) pirmą kartą buvo vedęs Izabelę Radvilaitę, o antrą kartą – Kristupo Tiškevičiaus našlę Jadvygą Zaluskytę.

Po santuokos A. ir K. T. Zaluskiai apsigyveno Gulbinų dvare (dabar jo teritorija priklauso Pavevėžio rajono savivaldybei). Ten gimė ir du pirmieji A. ir T. Zaluskių vaikai – Mykolas Zaluskis (1827–1893) bei Marija Eugenija Sofija Zaluskytė (1829–1910). Iš viso Amelija pagimdė 11 vaikų. Du iš jų – Teofilis (1828–1829) bei Juozapas (1832–1834) mirė kūdikystėje. A. ir T. Zaluskių šeimoje dar augo ir trys dukros – Ema (1831–1912), Ida (1841–1916) bei Pranciška (1843–1924) ir keturi sūnūs – Karolis (1834–1919), Irenėjus (1835–1868), Stanislovas (1838–1904), Ivas (1840–1881).

Jonas Stanislovas Apolinaras Moravskis savo atsiminimuose („Keleri mano jaunystės metai Vilniuje: atsiskyrėlio atsiminimai“, iš lenkų kalbos vertė Reda Griškaitė, Mintis, Vilnius, 1994) taip rašo apie A. Oginskaitę: ,,(...) savo gerumu, švelnumu, išsilavinimu, ištikimybe ir pasiaukojimu vyrui, protu ir dora ji kaip dangus ir žemė skyrėsi nuo savo motinos, todėl pastarosios niekuomet nebuvo mylima.“

Grafas K. T. Zaluskis dalyvavo 1831 m. sukilime – kovojo prieš Rusijos valdžią, būrė sukilėlius Panevėžio apylinkėse, savo dvare paskelbė 1831 m. sukilimo manifestą, Pnevėžio miesto turgaus aikštėje viešai sudegino caro Nikolajaus I amnestijos dokumentą. Rašytiniuose šaltiniuose yra nurodoma, kad A. Oginskaitė_Zaluska sukilimo metu slaugydavo tiek sukilėlius, tiek ir priešus ir visiems jiems būdavo maloni. Caro valdžia apie tai sužinojo. Vengdami represijų, Zaluskiai persikėlė gyventi į Klaipėdą (Mėmelį), kuri tada priklausė Prūsijos karalystei. Gulbinų dvarą ir visas Zaluskiams priklausiusias žemes Rusijos valdžia sekvestravo.

1837 m. K. T. Zaluskis paveldėjo dvarą Ivoničių kurorte (Galicijoje, tuo metu priklausiusi Austrijai, dabar čia – pietryčių Lenkijos teritorija). Čia, Karpatų kalnuose, Amelija padėjo savo vyrui įsteigti vandens sveikatingumo centrą. Jame pagal Amelijos projektus buvo pastatyti pirmieji pastatai. Amelija vadovavo šaltinio restauravimo darbams. Ant šio šaltinio buvo pastatyta klasicistinio stiliaus pastogė aštuoniomis kolonomis, kuris šį miestelį puošia iki šiol ir yra vienas vertingiausių paminklų šioje gyvenvietėje. Jos rūpesčiu miestelyje buvo nutiesti keliai, šaligatviai, pastatytas originalus medinis tiltas per upelį, pradėjo veikti parduotuvės, o parke buvo pastatytas saulės laikrodis. Kai 1847 m. prasidėjo vidurių šiltinės epidemija, ji organizavo pagalbą šia liga užsikrėtusiems miestelio gyventojams.

Zaluskių dvaras Ivoničiuose ilgą laiką Lenkijoje garsėjo kaip kultūros centras ir traukė kūrėjus. Čia gyvendama Amelija ir toliau kūrė muziką. Ji buvo ir dvare vykusių kultūros žmonių suėjimų siela, ju metu skambindavo pianinu.

Amelijos atminimas Ivoničiuose puoselėjamas iki šiol. Jos vardu yra pavadintas mineralinis šaltinis, sanatorija, miestelio parapinėje bažnyčioje kabo jai skirta memorialinė lenta.

Amelijos vyras K. T. Zaluskis mirė 1845 metais. Po vyro mirties Amelija apsirgo. Tada ji įsikūrė Italijos pietuose esančioje didžiausioje Partenopėjos salyno saloje Iščioje. Ten ji 1858 m. rugsėjo 5 d. ir mirė. Tą akimirką kartu su ja buvo jos mylimiausias sūnus Karolis Bernardas Zaluskis. Amelija palaidota Iščios saloje.

Meilę muzikai Amelija įskiepijo ir visiems devyniems savo vaikams, kuriuos pati muzikos ir išmokė.

Dukrą Emą Zaluską muzikos vėliau mokė pats Frederikas Šopenas ir Karolis Mikelis. Ji tapo garsia pianiste. Karolis Bernardas buvo kompozitoriaus Ferenso Listo draugas, buvo pianistas bei kompozitorius, domėjosi Rytų kultūra bei kalbomis. Tuo pat metu jis garsėjo kaip diplomatas (buvo austrų ambasadorius, atašė ir specialusis pasiuntinys Egipte, Japonijoje, Prūsijoje, Kinijoje Švedijoje, Turkijoje, Persijoje, Siame).

Didžiojoje Britanijoje dabar gyvenantis kompozitorius ir visuomenės veikėjas Ivo Zaluskis – Amelijos ir Karolio Teofilio Zaluskių provaikaitis. Jis paskutiniais metais kelis kartus lankėsi Lietuvoje, dalyvavo Rietavo Oginskių kultūros istorijos muziejaus rengiamuose „Polonezų kelio“ koncertuose, Plungėje vykstančiuose Mykolo Oginskio tarptautiniuose muzikos festivaliuose, daugelyje kitų kultūrinių renginių, juose grojo savo proprosenelio Mykolo Kleopo Oginskio kūrinius.