Chajka

Chajka

Chajka (Czajka) (d. after 14 November 1781), was a Polish Jew, mistress of the Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski.

She was daughter of the Lithuanian-Jewish merchant Abramek Lwowski and lived in Żwaniec. In 1781, she was portrayed by Krzysztof Radzwiłłowski. She had a daughter named Elia (Ella).

Sources

  • Z.Satała Poczet polskich królowych, księżnych i metres, Szczecin 1990
  • G. D. Hundert Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century, 2004
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