Natalia Anna Kicka was born as the eldest of four daughters to Piotr Bisping, marshal of
Wołkowysk and Józefa Kicka and grew up on a family estate in
Hołowczyce. Kicka collected coins and medals and worked with several pioneers of the
numismatic movement in Poland, especially
Karol Beyer,
Emeryk Huten-Czapski and
Kazimierz Strończyński. In the 1870s she conducted archaeological excavations in
Kujawy on the so-called
Kuyavian Pyramids. She married
Ludwik Kicki, in January 1831. He died in the same year at the
Battle of Ostrołęka (1831). Her memoirs are a valuable historical source for the
November Uprising. ==Memoirs==