Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I whanau a Sulkiewicz i Skirsobole Tatarskie, Congress Poland (i tenei wa he waahanga o Lithuania) ki tetahi whanau Tatar me te tikanga o te tautoko i te take o te mana motuhake o Polani. Ko ia te tama a Aleksander Sulkiewicz, he "rotmistrz" i roto i te ope Czarist, me Rozalia Sulkiewicz (née Kryczyńska<unk> te ahua wahine o Kryczyński, tetahi o nga whanau Tatar ruarua i mohiotia hei rangatira e te Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). Ko tana tupuna ko Józef Bielak, he rangatira i te Kościuszko Uprising
, a ko tetahi o nga taonga tino nui o te whanau he reta na Tadeusz Kościuszko e whakawhetai ana ki a Bielak mo tana mahi.