Ewelina Hańska Ewelina Hańska Eveline Hańska (Ewelina, née Rzewuska, 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia, (now Ukraine) Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański (Wenceslas Hanski) when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac
Hanska, Minnesota Hanska, Minnesota Hanska is a city in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 402 at the 2010 census. A post office called Hanska has been in operation since 1890. Hanska was platted in 1899, and incorporated as a village in 1901. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 402 people, 176 households, and 105 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 197 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup