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Sadyba
Sadyba is a neighborhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. It has an administrative status of ''osiedle'' within the city. Sadyba can be divided into Old Sadyba, mainly upper class housing, and New-Sadyba with modern retail stores and communist era high rise apartments. Old and New Sadyba can be divided roughly by Świętego Bonifacego street, just south of the Sadyba Best mall. Sadyba is known as the "Garden City" due to the large number of household and community gardens tended by the residents. History The Sadyba district was home to the Oasis Battalion (Batalionu Oaza) of the Polish Resistance. Museums * Katyń Museum (Muzeum Katynskie) - A museum dedicated to the memory of the Katyn Massacre. * Polish Army Museum (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) - A collection of Polish military equipment located at Fort Sadyba. Famous residents * Józef Beck - Polish Minister of Foreign AffairsTomasz Urzykowski ''Oficerska Sadyba i Miasto Ogród Czerniaków'' 08.05.2008 http://warsza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokotów
Mokotów , is a ''dzielnica'' (borough, district) of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Mokotów is densely populated, and is a seat to many foreign embassies and companies. Only a small part of the district is lightly industrialised (''Służewiec Przemysłowy''), while the majority is full of parks and green areas (Mokotów Field). Although the area has been populated at least since the early Middle Ages, it was not until early 1916 when Mokotów was incorporated into Warsaw. The name of the area, first appearing as the village of Mokotowo in documents from the year 1367, has unclear origins. It is hypothesised to have come from the name of a German owner of the village, who called himself Mokoto or Mokot, however no exact reference to such an individual can be found in the historical records. Most of the area was urbanised and redeveloped throughout the 1930s in the style of modernism. The majority of the buildings survived World War II, making it one of the few well-preserved pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izydor Modelski
Izydor Modelski (born May 10, 1889, in L'viv, and died on September 25, 1962 in Washington DC) was a Polish spy and a lieutenant general of the Polish Army. Modelski also completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Lviv in 1917. In 1946, he was sent to the United States to establish a spy ring. Defying an order to return to Poland in 1948, he testified about his actions to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949. General Modelski is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C. See also * Władysław Sikorski * Stanisław Mikołajczyk * Polish government-in-exile * Sadyba Sadyba is a neighborhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. It has an administrative status of ''osiedle'' within the city. Sadyba can be divided into Old Sadyba, mainly upper class housing, and New-Sadyba with modern retail stores and commun ... References External links 1889 births 1962 deaths Polish generals Military personnel from Lviv Polish defectors Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Beck
Józef Beck (; 4 October 1894 – 5 June 1944) was a Poles, Polish statesman who served the Second Republic of Poland as a diplomat and military officer. A close associate of Józef Piłsudski, Beck is most famous for being Polish foreign minister in the 1930s and for largely setting Polish foreign policy. He tried to fulfill Piłsudski's dream of making Poland the leader of a regional coalition, but he was widely disliked and distrusted by other governments. He was involved in territorial disputes with Lithuania and Czechoslovakia. With his nation caught between two large hostile powers (Nazi Germany, Germany and the Soviet Union), Beck sometimes pursued accommodation with them and sometimes defied them. He attempted to take advantage of their mutual antagonism but then formed an alliance with the United Kingdom and French Third Republic, France. Both declared war on Germany after its invasion of Poland in 1939. After the Soviet Union also invasion of Poland, invaded Poland, Bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Kasprzycki
Tadeusz Adam Kasprzycki (16 January 1891, Warsaw – 4 December 1978, Montreal) was a member of the Polish Legions in First World War, major general of the Polish Armed Forces from 1929 and Minister of Military Affairs of Poland from 1935 to 1939. He commanded the 12th Infantry Division from 1927 to 1931. Biography In 1939 he signed the Franco-Polish Military Alliance. Later, he was interned in Romania after the evacuation of the Polish government following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland and was only released in 1945. After the end of the Second World War, he emigrated to Canada. Kasprzycki graduated from General Paweł Chrzanowski High School in Warsaw, after which he studied social studies and law at the Sorbonne and Geneva University. In the early 1910s, he joined the Union of Active Struggle and the Riflemen's Association. Before the outbreak of World War I, he graduated from Riflemen's Officer Academy in Stróże near Limanowa. In August 1914, Kasprzycki was named co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremi Przybora
Jeremi Przybora (12 December 1915 in Warsaw – 4 March 2004) was a Polish poet, writer, actor and singer. He created the TV-series "Kabaret Starszych Panów" (Elderly Gentlemen's Cabaret) with Jerzy Wasowski and performed ballads and sung poetry Sung poetry is a broad and imprecise music genre widespread in European countries, such as Poland and the Baltic States, to describe songs consisting of a poem (most often a ballad) and music written specially for that text. The compositions usu ..., a popular music genre in Poland. External links About Jeremi Przybora 1915 births 2004 deaths Musicians from Warsaw Polish cabaret performers 20th-century Polish poets 20th-century Polish male singers 20th-century Polish male writers 20th-century comedians {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Grochowiak
Stanisław Antoni Grochowiak, pen-name "Kain" (24 January 1934 – 2 September 1976) was a Polish poet and dramatist. His is often classified as a representative of turpism (Polish: turpizm), because of his interest in the physical, ugly and brutal, but he also exhibits strong tendencies toward formal, rhymed poetry, reaching on many occasions the ornamental grace of a baroque style. Grochowiak was born in Leszno and died, aged 42, in Warsaw. See also * Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Latin, ... Further reading * * 1934 births 1976 deaths People from Leszno 20th-century Polish poets 20th-century Polish male writers {{Poland-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czesław Petelski
Czesław Petelski (5 November 1922 – 19 September 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1953 and 1990. His 1963 film '' Black Wings'' was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1973 film ''Copernicus'' was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. He often worked together with his wife Ewa Petelska. Selected filmography * ''Ogniomistrz Kaleń'' (1961) * '' Black Wings'' (1963) * ''Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated ...'' (1973) References External links * Czesław Petelskiat the ''Polish Film Academy'' 1922 births 1996 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Janicki
Jerzy Janicki (10 August 1928 in Chortkiv – 15 April 2007 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer, journalist and scriptwriter. Author of many radio auditions, among them most famous is the radio drama ''Matysiakowie.'' He wrote many books about Kresy, particularly about the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). External links Zmarł pisarz i scenarzysta Jerzy Janicki Gazeta Wyborcza ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of " real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the ..., 2007-04-15, 1928 births 2007 deaths People from Chortkiv Polish male dramatists and playwrights Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis 20th-century Polish dramatists and playwrights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariusz Rosati
Dariusz Kajetan Rosati (born 8 August 1946 as Gaetano Dario Rosati) is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2004–2019, and subsequently as a deputy of the Sejm since 2019. Biography Academic Dariusz Rosati graduated from the Faculty of International Trade at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in 1969 and immediately afterwards started working there as an assistant. In 1973 he defended his doctoral thesis and in 1978 he received his ''habilitacja'' in economic sciences. He has been a professor of economics since 1990. He is a supporter of a united Europe, the author of numerous publications on European integration and the rector of Lazarski School of Commerce and Law in Warsaw ('). Political From 1966–1990 he was a member of Polish United Workers Party (PZPR) and in the 1980s he was an economic adviser to Mieczysław Rakowski's government, the last such government of the communist Polish People's Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Żakowski
Jacek Wojciech Żakowski (born 17 August 1957) is a Polish journalist and author. In 1989 he was head of editorial division of ''Gazeta Wyborcza'', 1989–1990 spokesman of the Citizens Parliamentary Club, in 1991–1992 president of the Polish Agency Informacyjna, journalist of the weekly ''Polityka''. Since 1999 head of the Collegium Civitas Journalism Department in Warsaw. Career Żakowski was born in Warsaw. In 1981 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw. He began working as a journalist in the weekly ''Na Przełaj'' (1980–1981), then he was active in the Press Information Office of Solidarność (1981–1983). In the following years he wrote to ''Tygodnik Polski'' (1903) and the monthly ''Powściągliwość i Praca'' (1984–1989). He was a spokesperson for the Civic Parliamentary Club (1989–1991), one of the founders of ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' and the first president of the Polish Information Agency (1991–1992). He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Kondrat
Marek Tadeusz Kondrat (born 18 October 1950) is a former Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director. Career He is a graduate of the Jan Śniadecki High School No. 30 in Warsaw. In 1972, he graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (PWST). He played his first role as a child in 1961 film ''Historia żółtej ciżemki.'' Between 1972-1973, he worked at the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice. He also worked at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw (1973–1984, 1987–1988), French Institute (1984), New Theatre (1985–1986), Comedy Theatre (1989), Za Dalekim (1990), Ateneum Theatre (1992–1999) and Zygmunta Hübner's Theatre (2002). His most notable roles, which made him one of the most popular actors in Poland, are featured in such films as Janusz Majewski's 1975 film '' Hotel Pacific'', Andrzej Wajda's 1976 film ''Smuga cienia'' where he played the role of Joseph Conrad, Krzysztof Zanussi's 1981 biographic film ''From a Far Country'', Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
