Andrzej Kmicic is best known as a fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 created by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic of the Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his...

 featured in the novel The Deluge

Potop

Potop may refer to:* The Deluge , a historical novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz...

. He is a typical szlachcic

Szlachta

The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...

 (Polish-Lithuanian noble) from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

; unruly yet patriotic. During the course of the books he transforms from a villain to a hero.

He is based on a real historical character, Samuel Kmicic

Samuel Kmicic

Samuel Kmicic was a nobleman from Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He held the ranks of colonel in the Royal Army, chorąży of Orsza and Grand Lithuanian Guardian....

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Moral transformation of Andrzej Kmicic is similar to transformation of Prince Roman from Joseph Conrad's book.