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Today Oginski is only remembered for his Polonaise, immensely popular in Central and Eastern Europe, but for this amateur composer whose melodic gift has produced enchanting music awaiting rediscovery, composition was only one of many interests. Politician, diplomat, soldier, historian, Oginski left a record of his activities, chronicling a stormy period of European history in writings, most of which have lain hidden, unexplored, in Russian archives for one hundred and seventy years, 171 pp., paperback