Rodzina Medarda Kończy na zesłaniu w Wielkim Ustiugu (1841-1843) - w świetle korespondencji i relacji pamiętnikarskich

The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the selected aspects of daily routine of the landowning Kończa family during their stay in exile in the Great Ustiug in the first half of the nineteenth century. For participating in the Szymon Konarski’s conspiracy, Medard Kazimierz Kończa was exiled into the Russian Empire, where he stayed from 1839, and two years later he was joined by his wife and son. The text is based on the analysis of memoirs and correspondence belonging to the Kończą family and their relatives - the Römer family. The confrontation and comparison of these reports showed in what way values, ideas and customs cultivated by the family were implemented among nationally and culturally foreign community. They allowed to present the relations between the Polish exiles with the locals and they indicated the importance of home, not only in the material sense, but also in the conscious one, and these traditions Kończa family tried to restore in the exile by maintaining the landowning tradition.