オスタフィ・ダシュケーヴィチ。

Ostafi Daszkiewicz, or Ostap Dashkevych, died around 1535, roughly three and a half centuries before Jan Matejko painted him, so this face is an act of imagination. Daszkiewicz was a captain on the wild steppe frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian lands, a starosta at Cherkasy and Kaniv who helped organise the early Cossacks into a fighting screen against Tatar raids. Matejko spent his life picturing the Polish past for a nation that had been wiped off the map, and he gave this border commander a heavy fur-trimmed coat and the wary look of a man who lived within reach of danger. With no likeness to copy, the painter built one from what the chronicles said of him. It hangs now in the Silesian Museum in Katowice.