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A charity organization helping Polish society during the First World War. It operated from January the 1st 1916 in Warsaw. The president of the council was S. Dzierzbicki, and then E. Sapieha, the president of the Main Board was the initiator of the appointment of the RGO – Eng. A.

Writer, translator, collector, patron of the arts. He was born in Sevres near Paris in 1875, died in Krakow in 1968. He came from a noble Polish-Parisian family, which in 1870 settled in the estate of Czakowy on the Nida River. Father – Zygmunt Pusłowski was a collector and bibliophile.

Sculptor, son of Ludwik Puget, born in 1904, died in 1977 in Kraków. While he was a junior high school student, he fought in the Wielkopolska and Silesian Uprisings. In the years 1923-1925 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and in Paris in the studio of

Puget was a sculptor and art historian. He was born in Kraków in 1877 and died in Oświęcim in 1942. He studied painting at the Krakow school of fine arts and art history at the Jagiellonian University, then in Paris. Co-founder of the Literary Circle, author of a series of

French family. The Pugets came to Poland with the court of Queen Marysieńka Sobieska, in 1726 they received an indigenate, and in the Saxon times they became barons. Their family document bore the name Puget Puchet. Their palace is located at 11-15 Starowiślna Street in Krakow

Architect, economic and social activist, born in St. Petersburg in 1908, died in Krakow in 1980. He studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology and became an assistant there, he practiced in Starachowice. In the September campaign in 1939, he fought in the defense of Warsaw as a company

After the fall of the January Uprising, many of its participants settled in Krakow. From the contributions of former insurgents and with the help of the city’s inhabitants, the first Veterans’ Shelter in Poland was created. First, it was located in a house in Zwierzyniec, near the Norbertine convent, but

About Krakow, Krakowians there are many different proverbs, proverbial expressions, the so-called adjectives which Samuel Adalberg carefully noted in his “Book of Polish Proverbs” from 1894. Some of them are presented below: Even if you go to Krakow and the poverty is the same there Civitas Cracovia: buy yourself as

In former Krakow, each journeyman, receiving the title of a master, accepted the city law and was entered into the books of Krakow’s burghers. On this occasion, placing three fingers on the image of Christ Crucified, he made an oath that read: “I … swear to the Lord Almighty God,

Novelist, playwright, essayist. For some time he studied medicine and architecture in Berlin, where he edited a newspaper entitled “Gazeta Robotnicza”. He came to Kraków in September 1898, moved to Karmelicka 53, then 31. For some time he also lived in Zakopane. He edited, in collaboration with Stanisław Wyspiański, “Życie”