Hassling-Ketling of Elgin
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{{Infobox character
| name = Hassling-Ketling of Elgin
| first = The Deluge
| last = Fire in the Steppe
| creator = Henryk Sienkiewicz
| portrayer = Jan Nowicki (Fire in the Steppe)
| spouse = Krystyna Drohojowska
| gender = Male
| family = Unknown
| religion = Christianity
| nationality = Scottish
}}
Ketling (Hassling-Ketling of Elgin) is a fictional character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Fire in the Steppe, the third volume of his award-winning The Trilogy. A Scotsman, Ketling moved to Poland where he became a Colonel of Artillery in service of the king of Poland John Casimir.
Ketling married Krystyna Drohojowska, a former fiancée of his friend, Michał Wołodyjowski.
Ketling was killed in the Siege of Kamieniec Podolski, when he (together with Wołodyjowski) blew himself up in a gunpowder depot.
The historical personality on which the character was loosely based was certain Major Heyking, a mercenary from Courland and the commander of the Kamieniec Fortress during the said war.
In 1969 Jerzy Hoffman's film Ketling is portrayed by Jan Nowicki.
References
- {{cite book |title=Fire in the Steppe |last=Sienkiewicz |first=H |author-link=Henryk Sienkiewicz |year=1992 |publisher=Hippocrene Books |isbn=0-7818-0025-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/fireinsteppe00sien |url-access=registration }}
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Category:Sienkiewicz's Trilogy
Category:Literary characters introduced in 1884
Category:Characters in novels of the 19th century
Category:Fictional Scottish people
Category:Fictional characters based on real people
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