MEMOIRS OF ALBRECHT STANISLAW RADZIWILL AS A SOURCE ON THE CLIMATE HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XVII CENTURY
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The article examines the descriptions of the climate of Eastern Europe in the first half of the XVII century, made by the great chancellor Lithuanian Albrecht Stanislaw Radziwill in “Memoirs of events in Poland”. The author of this Memoirs turned his attention to the narrative about the weather of individual winters and spring seasons with severe droughts, some of which are identified by locust infestations. A large number of records relate to extreme climatic events, where information about strong winds and prolonged rains with lightning is particularly prominent. Certain meteorological information is provided by records of visits of King Wladislaw IV of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to Wilno, during which Radziwill also tells about the weather conditions. The nature of the records made in the Memoirs reflects the peculiarities of the religious worldview of that time, when climatic phenomena were mostly explained by the manifestation of the will of God.
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