Pro patria. Tanulmányok - A Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Levéltár Kiadványai III. Tanulmányok 12. (Nyíregyháza, 2004)

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connections so Kossuth hoped the acknowledgement of the country from the Declaration of Independence. However the dethronement made easier the international and western acceptation of the intervention for the Russian and Austrian diplomacy. Otherwise the Russian press reported several times of the Hungarian war of independence, wrote about Kossuth then commented the Austro-Hungarian conciliation as a necessary real compromise while in connection wit the Croat it popularised the idea of the union of the Slavic. Beside the real news there were "false reports" in the newspapers, as well. According to these "Kossuth's sons are going to march in through Galicia on the head of the Russian army to liberate Hungary". The relation of the Habsburg Empire (including Hungary) to Russia worked out in a peculiar way. The diplomacy, the Hungarian revolution and war of independence as the investigation of the following period proved: Kossuth's work - although with a changing intensity - functioned as a catalyser all the time. The Russian public opinion and even the steps of the diplomacy proved that his attitude was considered. SÁNDOR GALAMBOS: His essay entitled László Böszörményi, the "Little Kossuth" - comparisons and connecting points outlines the life of László Böszörményi. He was gentry origin from Szabolcs county, a graduate in law who fought in the 1848-49 war of independence as Kossuth's soldier. In the battles he was remarkable for his heroism. In the 1860's he was elected Member of Parliament in the district of Nagykálló three times. In the Parliament he became the recognised leader of the "extreme left" who followed Kossuth's ideas and fought for independence. As the editor of the daily paper the Hungarian News starting in 1867 Böszörményi used every legal device to countermine the conciliation. Among others in his daily paper he often published the former governor's letters (being in exile) written to the native public. Owing to one part of the so-called "váczi letter" in the absence of the author Böszörményi as the editor was drew into libel case. Kossuth fought for him but without avail because the editor was sentenced for one year in prison. Due to his serious illnesses Böszörményi died in prison in 1869. ATTILA PEJIN: His essay entitled The traces of the Kossuth cult in Zenta and Magyarkanizsa is trying to collect the memories about Lajos Kossuth, the revolution and the war of independence. To this he uses the laconic archival data, contemporary newspaper reports and other indirect sources. The respect towards Kossuth's personality took nourishment mainly from the fact of the failure of the war of independence in Zenta, too. That the exile - first inevitable, later voluntary emphasized stronger. Kossuth in the exile was in a constant communication with his