| Summary: | A biographical view on Bronisław Piłsudski and his ethnographic research on the SakhalinThe legacy of Bronisław Piłsudski 1866–1918 as a researcher studying the cultures of the Ainu, the Nivkh and the Orosk has been assessed by Japanese scholars Koichi Inoue, Kazuhiko Sawada, Russian scholars Vladislav Latishev as well as Polish scholars Antoni Kuczyński, Alfred Majewicz and Zbigniew Wójcik. In 1998 the prestigious scholarly publishing house Mouton de Gruyter Berlin-New York began to publish a series, planned for 10 volumes, entitled The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia hosts the B. Piłsudski Legacy I nstitute, which since 1998 has been publishing its annual journal; an interesting study entitled A Critical Biography of Bronisław Piłsudski vols. 1–2, ed. Kazuhiko Sawada, Koichi Inoue, Saitana 2010 has been published in Japan. In addition, B. Piłsudski’s scholarly legacy has been examined in many articles devoted to culture, language as well as historical and social matters, usually following international conferences held in Japan, Poland and Russia, articles which significantly complement Piłsudki’s biography and scholarly legacy.The variety of Piłsudki’s ethnographic interests is the subject of the present article, which explores the complicated life of this Siberian exile, humanist and ethnographer, to which new facts are added again and again. The article contains information about all stages of his biography as well as the reception of his works in international anthropological-cultural studies dealing with the culture of the indigenous peoples of Sakhalin and the so-called Amurian Pomerania. However, the author of the article focuses not only on B. Piłsudski’s scholarly legacy. He also provides the readers with new information about Piłsudski’s family life, records his successes and failures, filling the existing gaps in his biography.The article expands our knowledge of B. Piłsudski’s life and of his ethnographic research on the Sakhalin; it also presents various ...
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