He was born in Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine) where he completed a secondary school. After the outbreak of the Second World War he was deported deep into the USSR. He joined the Berling’s Army and because of his knowledge of several languages was assigned to the II Department, that is, the Military Intelligence. He served there throughout the war and the end of hostilities found him in Germany. After he left the army in 1950, he proved himself to be an eminent expert on literature and translator of the works by authors such as Goethe, Byron, Graves, Updike, or Conrad. In 1955 he got involved in the launching of the ‘Europa’ monthly, together with – among others - Jerzy Andrzejewski, Paweł Hertz, and Mieczysław Jastrun, all of whom had already gone through their period of fascination with Communism. The paper, however, was never actually published, abolished by virtue of a decision of the Communist authorities (even in the collections of the National Library of Poland there is only the proof copy of the first issue). Krzeczkowski also participated in the drawing up of the ‘Letter of the 34’, but was disappointed with its final form which he considered too moderate in comparison with the original intention of coming out resolutely in defence of Polish culture. He collaborated with various magazines, including “Życie Literackie”, “Tygodnik Powszechny”, “Twórczość”, and “Nowa Kultura”. In the mid-1980’s he got involved in the forming of a debating club called ‘Dziekania’, a name derived from a Warsaw street at which its meetings were held in the Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński Institute. It was one of the most important independent intellectual undertakings of those times, in which, at its different stages, the following figures also took part: Stanisław Stomma, Stefan Kisielewski, Paweł Hertz, and Mirosław Dzielski, as well as the activists of the Young Poland Movement and other oppositional circles. As a political publicist, Krzeczkowski acquired fame in the Samizdat (i.e., the underground press) becoming one of the most important writers of the Conservative-Liberal set of the anti-Communist opposition. He referred to the traditions of the Conservative ‘Stańczycy’ group (once the leading political circle in Galicia) and to Roman Dmowski; he had also much esteem for Józef Piłsudski, although Krzeczkowski’s views were much closer to the Conservative, and National Democracy, heritage. He published the following books: Po namyśle (1977), O miejsce dla roztropności (1979), and Polskie zmartwienia (1980). He died on the 28th of December, 1985. In 1996, a selection of his writings called Proste prawdy was issued posthumously.