Michał Węsławski
Michał Węsławski (September 17, 1849 in Giegrany – August 22, 1917 in Vilnius) - Polish lawyer, mayor (president) of Vilnius in years 1905-1916 and deputy to 2nd Duma. He was born in the family estate of Giegrany as the second son of Antoni and Kazimiera née Gadon. Because his father took part in January Uprising, the family estate was taken from them by the Russian government. He studied law in Moscow and then at the Imperial University in St. Petersburg. After completing his apprenticeship, he was appointed as an investigating judge in the first district of the city of  Chisinau. In 1880 he started to work as a lawyer in St. Petersburg and from 1883 in Vilnius. From 1888, he became involved with his younger brother Witold (father of Stanisław Węsławski, later an underground mayor of Vilnius during World War II) in creating the structures of secret Polish education. He took part in the works of all main Polish institutions. Elected as councilor and in the years 1905-1916 three times as a mayor of the city. His merits for Vilnius include an attempt to implement a plan of the so-called "Europeanization" of the city. Until the outbreak  of World War I, he managed to start the construction of water supply and sewage systems, which was continued in the interwar period. In 1906 he was elected as a member of the Second State Duma where he was the President of the Circle of Lithuania and Ruthenia. He died of a heart attack on August 22, 1917 in Vilnius.