Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

At Kossuth’s initiative, Pest became, in the torrent of the revolution, the seat of the Hungarian government and the new, representative parliament, and the city rose to the status of capital, the real centre of the country. After the surrender of the Hungarian army to the invading forces at Világos, the political purges conducted by General Haynau paralysed the city and the country. However, the figure of "our father Kossuth" was preserved in popular songs and poems raising him to mythical heights after his death.

On his death the "grief felt by the municipality and the undying merits of the deceased" were recorded in an official document and then entered in the minutes of the meeting. Deputy-Mayor Károly Gerlóczy’s oration called up the memory of Kossuth to the assembly. The municipality sent a deputation of 25 to the funeral ceremony of Kossuth in Turin. The mayor, one Signor Voli, referred to the deceased as the highly esteemed "General Kossuth", as he was known to the Italian city's population. The mayor offered to set up Kossuth's sepulchre in the pantheon where the foremost citizens of Piedmont Province lay buried.

■ The eponym of Koióuth Lajos utca

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