Education
Born into a Polish noble family in Volhynia, he graduated from the Liceum Krzemienieckie.
Born into a Polish noble family in Volhynia, he graduated from the Liceum Krzemienieckie.
Then he fought against Russians in the November Uprising in 1831. After being injured in a battle, he went to Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, where was arrested by Austrians and expelled two years later. He arrived in England, then in Belgium, and finally in France.
He became a political agent of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski - a prominent Polish-émigre political figure, head of a political faction accordingly called the Hôtel Lambert - in the 1840s.
He played chess at the famous Café de la Régence in Paris, where - among others - lost casual and formal matches to Lionel Kieseritzky (1: 2) in 1850, Serafino Dubois (65: 135) in 1855, Paul Morphy (15: 55, Morphy gave odds of pawn and move) in 1858 and (0: 7) in 1859, and beat Daniel Harrwitz (3: 1, Harrwitz gave odds of pawn and move) in 1859.