Countess Kozel is the first novel (in the style of a “horror novel”) from the historical “Saxon trilogy” about the events at the beginning of the eighteenth century during the reign of the Polish king and Saxon elector Augustus II. An eponymous film adaptation helped the novel become extraordinarily popular.
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) was a world-famous Polish writer, author of gripping historical novels that stand alongside works by Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, and Lazhechnikov.