Tales of exploration and adventure were wildly popular in the 18th century. When Maurice Benyovszky's -authentic- posthumous memoir was published in 1790, it was an instant sensation, and was translated into several languages and adapted for the theater and opera. With tales of daring escapes from Siberian prisons, of epic victories of 33 men overcoming 3,000 angry natives, and of being crowned King of Madagascar, who could not be caught up in Benyovszky-mania?

The self-identified -Hungarian Baron Maurice Auguste Aladar Benyofszky, Counsellor to Prince Albert, Duke of Saxony,...

Tales of exploration and adventure were wildly popular in the 18th century. When Maurice Benyovszky's -authentic- posthumous memoir was published in 1790, it was an instant sensation, and was translated into several languages and adapted for the theater and opera. With tales of daring escapes from Siberian prisons, of epic victories of 33 men overcoming 3,000 angry natives, and of being crowned King of Madagascar, who could not be caught up in Benyovszky-mania?

The self-identified -Hungarian Baron Maurice Auguste Aladar Benyofszky, Counsellor to Prince Albert, Duke of Saxony,...