He was born in the village of Wola Okrzejska Lukowski in the Podlasie region of the Earth in an impoverished noble family, the coat of arms Oszyk, the sword descended from the Tartars settled in Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His parents were Joseph Sienkiewicz (1813-1896) and Stefania Cieciszowskich family Sienkiewicz (1820-1873). Will Okrzejska belonged to his grandmother Felicia Cieciszowskiej writer. He was baptized in the neighboring village of Okrzeja, the church founded by the great-grandmother writer. Family with time returned to Grotek, then moved to Wygnanowa and Potkanny Przytyk color, then Wężyczyna Grabowców and then eventually moved on in 1861 to Warsaw. In 1858, Sienkiewicz began secondary school in Warsaw, did not receive high marks, preferably followed him humanities. As a result of financial difficulties, unable to rely on their parents for financial assistance, nineteen Sienkiewicz undertook a job with a family tutor in Płońsk Weyher. Probably, at the time he wrote his first unpublished novel - Sacrifice. It also worked on his first published novel - the poor. At the same time ending in absentia last year of primary school. In 1866 he obtained a matriculation certificate. In accordance with the will of the parents passed the medical department of Warsaw School of Economics. With time, gave up his legal studies and undertook to eventually move to the Department of Philology and History. There he gained a thorough knowledge of the Old Polish language and literature. In 1867, undertook the first attempt in literature, wrote a rhyming song idyllic youth, which was rejected by the Illustrated Weekly. In 1869 he made his debut as a journalist. Weekly Review of the Review printed a theatrical Illustrated Weekly printed an essay on the historical-literary Nicholas Sarzyńskim sepia. Sienkiewicz wrote under the pseudonym Litwos to Polish newspapers and Niwy. In 1873, he became the Polish daily Gazeta year fixed column Untitled, in 1875, a series of present moment. Since 1874, the literary department in Niwa
He was born in the village of Wola Okrzejska Lukowski in the Podlasie region of the Earth in an impoverished noble family, the coat of arms Oszyk, the sword descended from the Tartars settled in Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
His parents were Joseph Sienkiewicz (1813-1896) and Stefania Cieciszowskich family Sienkiewicz (1820-1873). Will Okrzejska belonged to his grandmother Felicia Cieciszowskiej writer. He was baptized in the neighboring village of Okrzeja, the church founded by the great-grandmother writer. Family with time returned to Grotek, then moved to Wygnanowa and Potkanny Przytyk color, then Wężyczyna Grabowców and then eventually moved on in 1861 to Warsaw. In 1858, Sienkiewicz began secondary school in Warsaw, did not receive high marks, preferably followed him humanities. As a result of financial difficulties, unable to rely on their parents for financial assistance, nineteen Sienkiewicz undertook a job with a family tutor in Płońsk Weyher. Probably, at the time he wrote his first unpublished novel - Sacrifice. It also worked on his first published novel - the poor. At the same time ending in absentia last year of primary school. In 1866 he obtained a matriculation certificate. In accordance with the will of the parents passed the medical department of Warsaw School of Economics. With time, gave up his legal studies and undertook to eventually move to the Department of Philology and History. There he gained a thorough knowledge of the Old Polish language and literature. In 1867, undertook the first attempt in literature, wrote a rhyming song idyllic youth, which was rejected by the Illustrated Weekly. In 1869 he made his debut as a journalist. Weekly Review of the Review printed a theatrical Illustrated Weekly printed an essay on the historical-literary Nicholas Sarzyńskim sepia. Sienkiewicz wrote under the pseudonym Litwos to Polish newspapers and Niwy. In 1873, he became the Polish daily Gazeta year fixed column Untitled, in 1875, a series of present moment. Since 1874, the literary department in Niwa