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OP Torq 6 | 760
15 Apr 2024 #571
155th Anniversary

10000

Stanisław Wyspiański, a famous Polish playwright, painter and poet, was born exactly 155 years ago. When Polish currency underwent redenomination in 1995, the value of banknotes with Wyspiański went down from 10000 zlotys to just 1 measly zloty...

1

... luckily the works of the author of Wesele (The Wedding) never underwent redenomination, and they are still valued highly as timeless classics.
Bobko 25 | 2,121
15 Apr 2024 #572
Stanisław Wyspiański

Станислав Выспяньский - in the Orthodox tongue.

Not a very popular guy in Russian literary circles, suffice it to say.

A big fan of the painting of Ivan the Terrible's ambassadors begging at Stepan Bathory's feet :)
OP Torq 6 | 760
15 Apr 2024 #573
Not a very popular guy in Russian literary circles

Heh :)

What can I say? Great people are never popular with everybody ;)
pawian 224 | 24,581
23 Apr 2024 #574
Hiking in the Polish mountains in wintertime.




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