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Father Tadeusz Judas Krusiński (also seen as Tadeusz Jan Krusiński, 1675‒1756) was a Polish Jesuit priest who spent nearly 20 years in Persia (Iran) at the court in the Safavid capital of Isfahan. In 1722 he was an eyewitness to the siege and conquest of Isfahan by an invading Afghan force. Krusiński wrote an account in Latin of the war and its immediate aftermath, which included the extirpation of the Persian royal family by the Afghan commander, Mahmud Ghilji. Krusiński left Persia in 1725. Passing through Constantinople (present-day Istanbul ...