The poet, his biographer and the family context of biography

The Barącz family is an Armenian family which originates from Mohylów Podolski (now: Mohyliv-Podilskyi) and which was associated with Lwów since the beginning of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. Stanisław Barącz, a poet, along with his brothers: Tadeusz, a sculptor, and Roman, a surgeon, were one of the most talented representatives of this family. Blind since childhood, Barącz notonly managed to establish his family but also a literary and artistic salon which was an important hot spot on the cultural map of 20th-century Lwów. Most distinguished artists of the Young Poland period frequented this salon, including those who became famous in the world, such as Karol Szymanowski and Artur Rubinstein. The author also shed light on the history of the sons of the poet (Andrzej, Piotr and Franciszek) as well as Maria Łukasiewicz, a student of the Faculty of Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University, whose background was also Armenian. In the years 1951-1952 she made a very successful attempt to remind the blind poet who was already forgotten at that time.