a hero began to waver, with various aspects of his life and personality being questioned and criticized in the work of historians such as Karol Szajnocha and Józef Szujski. While Wiśniowiecki's portrayal (as a major secondary character) in the first part of Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy, With Fire and Sword which describes the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Uprising, was rather positive, criticism of his persona intensified, in particular from Sienkiewicz detractors such as Zygmunt Kaczkowski and Olgierd Górka. The 1930s saw a first modern historical work about Wiśniowiecki, by . In the era of the People's Republic of Poland, the Communist Party's ideology dictated that all historians present him as an "enemy of the people", although this began to be relaxed after 1965. Widacki, analyzing the work of other historians notes that Władysław Czapliński was rather sympathetic to Wiśniowiecki, while Paweł Jasienica was critical of him. Andrzej Seweryn played Jeremi Wiśniowiecki in the 1999 film With Fire and Sword. Wiśniowiecki was the main subject of one of Jacek Kaczmarski's 1993 songs Kniazia Jaremy nawrócenie (The Conversion of Knyaz Jarema). See also Lithuanian nobility Wiśniowiecki family List of szlachta References Sources External links Page dedicated to Jeremi Wisniowiecki, in Polish Wisniowiecki, Jeremi Wisniowiecki, Jeremi Military personnel of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Wisniowiecki, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki family Wisniowiecki, Jeremi Polish Roman Catholics Former Polish Orthodox Christians Polish people of Romanian descent 17th-century Polish people Polish people of the Smolensk War Polish military personnel of the Khmelnytsky Uprising Voivodes of the Ruthenian Voivodeship People from Kiev Voivodeship People from Lubny