... and to get in touch with the more eastern, wild, steppe part of our souls (by and large lost and forgotten these days) let's raise our hearts to God while looking at this lovely, traditional, wooden cerkiew in Trześcianka.
No, it's not a still from a Disney movie but a popular tourist place (hotel, restaurant, huge park) organised at historic Moszna Castle (former Schloss Moschen) in Opole Vojvodship, between Prudnik and Krapkowice.
Hello, Mum? I might be a bit late for dinner: 2020
Driver in Warsaw stuck between a police cordon and a group of protesters against the ruling of Constitutional Tribunal on abortion. Protests lasted about a month and spread all over the country.
Two million litres of unrefined spirit flow through the streets of Poznań after a lightning struck a huge spirit container in Akwawit distillery at Tama Garbarska street.
Wooden architecture dominated in the Polish countryside until XIX century. This traditional wooden manor (larch wood), in Rogów near Opatowiec, burnt down during WW2 and was never reconstructed.
Roman Dmowski, one of the fathers of Polish independence, spent the final months of his life in a lovely country manor of Niklewicz family in Drozdowo near Łomża. In the photo we see him accompanied by Maria Niklewiczowa (a poet and author of children literature). Dmowski died on 2nd January 1939 and was spared the sight of Poland's fall.
The look in their eyes!: 1908 Here again we see one of the greatest Poles of interwar period, again in Drozdowo but 30 years earlier, accompanied by Lutosławskie sisters, Maria and Izabella.
The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is a liturgical celebration observed in the Catholic Church on January 1st. In the photo we see a group of pilgrims attending a Mass at the shrine on the John Paul II Peak. Groń of John Paul II is the only mountain peak in the world which was named in honour of the Polish Pope. Karol Wojtyła often hiked to the tops of Jaworzyna (the previous name of Groń) and Leskowiec, even as a bishop.
Ksenia Starosielska (Ксения Старосельская, 1937-2017) in front of an old tenement building in Łódź. Pani Starosielska, the greatest translator of Polish literature into Russian, visited Poland (to which she always referred to as "my Poland") for the "Dialogue of Four Cultures" festival. In the photo we see the Lady of the Order of Merit of Republic of Poland being observed with reverence by two dresiarze/gopniks standing in the gateway.