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As the long war between Russia and the Caucasian mountaineers flared up with unexpected intensity in the mid-1840s the leaders of the Polish Great Emigration in Paris decided that the developments in the Caucasus afforded a good opportunity to galvanize Hotel Lambert's eastern politics. Polish envoys were to be dispatched to the Caucasian rebels. One of them was Kazimierz Gordon, a diplomatic agent...