Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki was elected king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania in 1669. His short reign was weakened by factional conflict and military pressure from the Ottoman Empire, culminating in the loss of Kamianets-Podilskyi and the humiliating Treaty of Buchach.

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Fire in the Steppe places Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty.