Poland in photo riddles - part 2

Yes. A specific one. Poland has (I think) 5 places like this. Which one is it?

Oh, I know what this is... It's a place where more than two borders meet... If it's somewhere near Puszcza Romincka then it must be an intersection of borders between Poland, Russia and... Lithuania?

Exactly there!

Yay! :)

I still don't know whose head is on that spear though... 🤔

Gumi??

Yup, true. An undisclosed amount, apparently.

Hmm, Gumi said it was easy but now I suspect he also thought about St Adalbert.

Is it Skomand?

Nope. That guy who lost his head was Christian.

9.04.1241. The battle of Legnica. Henryk 2 Pobożny

Yes, a famous battle where allied forces of Christian Europeans led by the Polish Duke Henry the Pious were defeated by pagan Mongols.

Here we can see a cup full of...... and for who...?

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Queen Bona Sforza and her poison!

Personally I prefer her włoszczyzna.

Yes, Queen Bona, the mother of a Polish king, was poisoned but in Italy, not Poland. Painting by Jan Matejko.

Who had such long arms?

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Wow, Alien, that's impressive :) I wouldn't have guessed it.


Bona Sforza's husband, king Sigismund I the Old.

And who is he blessing?

Albrecht of Hohenzollern, the Duke of Prussia. It's a fragment of the painting "The Prussian Homage" ("Hołd pruski") by Jan Matejko:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Homage_(painting)

Yes, exactly.

Why are they working so hard?

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Suspension of the Zygmunt bell 1521

Yes! Again by Jan Matejko. And the bell is the heaviest in Poland - but only 7 tons.

Now another artist`s hard work:

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The Kosciuszko Uprising

Quite close but try again. And they doing what?

The Powstanie Styczbiowe?

Yes. Doing what?

I recognised the picture as one of Grottger's (hard to mistake his style) so looked it up. They're forging scythes.

I prefer Wojciech Fangor's more recent version.

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That smithy from Grottger's work still stands, btw, it's somewhere near Kraków :)

Yes.

I posted it coz tomorrow I am going to do another replacement class for the absent history teacher who went on quarantine. We already talked about November Uprising and Krakow Rising, now it is time to talk about January Uprising. I think that apart from a few photos and films, I will show them this picture, contrasted with the view of 400.000 Russian army. :(:(:(:

Don't be sad, pawian, Poland is free now and they will live in our memory and hearts and in the memory and hearts of future generations thanks to teachers like you :)

how is it free exactly in what way? There are political prisoners in a country how is it free or laws where you can do time for criticising the govt or the country.

" I think that apart from a few photos and films, I will show them this picture, contrasted with the view of 400.000 Russian army. :(:(:(:"

so you teach propaganda then?

As a natural born pessimist, I must be sad. :):):)

What is this thing and why was it used?

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Mauser C96?
It's a painting by Wojciech Kossak. They're defending the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.

@Paulina
Bravo Paulina! It was to difficult for me. 👍