Corps of Cadets (Warsaw)

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Szkoła Rycerska (English: "Knights' School") or Akademia Szlachecka Korpusu Kadetów (English: "Nobles' Academy of the Corps of Cadets") was the first state school in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, established in Warsaw on March 15, 1765, by King Stanisław August Poniatowski.

The Corps of Cadets was housed in the Kazimierz Palace (Pałac Kazimierzowski, now the rectorate of Warsaw University). The Corps' commandant was Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski.

The Corps of Cadets was closed in 1794 following the suppression of the Kościuszko Uprising, which had been led by one of the Corps' first alumni, Tadeusz Kościuszko.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Tadeusz Kościuszko
• Jakub Jasiński
• Maurycy Hauke
• Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
• Karol Kniaziewicz
• Józef Sowiński
• Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha
• Rajmund Rembliński

[edit] See also

• Academy of National Defence