Gan: Is That a Polish Name?
Richard Gan
Richard Gan traces his ennobled Polish family across five hundred years of Polish history.
£10.00
Description
After fourteen generations stretching back nearly five hundred years, the question is still being asked. The family name was originally von Hahn, becoming Hahn and then Han, until the Russian occupation of Poland, with no ‘H’ sound in Russian, turned Han into Gan.
Richard Gan tells the story of a branch of an ennobled Polish family whose members include mercenaries, landowners, farmers, a revolutionary fighting for Polish freedom against the Russians, a hero murdered by the Soviet NKVD, a political exile and a Polish-Yorkshireman, set against the complex history of Poland and Lithuania. Illustrated.
