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Curious facts about Polish kings and queens [12]
The king is remembered till today for other interesting things,
Some of his personal characteristics are really amasing. We need more people like him today.
Sigismund III Vasa was well-educated and fluent in five languages, including Polish. The future king was already a very serious man in his youth, full of monarchical dignity who avoided feasts. Sigismund III Vasa was distinguished by his diligence, piety, and inner discipline. He began his day by listening to two Holy Masses . He remembered to recite the breviary and the hours every day until the end of his life . He was a good manager and tripled the income of the royal treasury.
He was artistically gifted, he dabbled in painting and goldsmithing, played the clavichord and was an expert in architecture. He took care of art. He collected paintings by Venetian and Flemish masters, creating the first modern gallery in Poland. He also developed his artistic passions in sculpture, engraving, woodcarving, goldsmithing and amber processing. He made gold chalices, patens, monstrances, candlesticks, lamps, and he loved building clocks. He donated the objects he made to churches and friends. He was interested in alchemy, which was to become an indirect cause of the fire at the Royal Castle in Kraków in 1595.
The king liked hunting, played football , and took care of the orchard and gardenWow, hats off! A true Reneissance person.
No wonder Warsavians erected the Sigismund Column
Can you imagine that they reerected it after Nazi Germans had completely blown it up during WW2???
Those Warsavians are really stubborn. That`s probably why I like them so much.
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