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CONCEPT, SCRIPTING, RESEARCH AND AQUISITION OF AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

Zespół specjalnych serwisów internetowych Polskiego Radia – Izabella Mazurek, Bartłomiej Makowski, Jacek Puciato

SUPERVISION AND CONTENT CONSULTATION

Prof. Zbigniew Wawer, Joanna Borowska, Maria Wardzyńska, Zasław Adamaszek

CONCEPT AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

Grzegorz Lipiński , Paweł Woźniak, Anna Szmida, Aleksandra Zając

ILLUSTRATIONS AND ANIMATION OF THE INTRO/OUTRO

Scenariusz: Bartłomiej Makowski Animacja: Bartosz Tytus Trojanowski Montaż i udźwiękowienie: Grzegorz Lipiński Lektorzy: Mateusz Drozd, Mathew Farell

DEVELOPMENT TEAM, TESTING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Damian Luje Ponce, Alan Krawczyk, Marcin Kieruzel, Łukasz Kowalski, Paula Karolak, Mateusz Orłowski, Rozalia Przeworska, Michał Romańczuk, Marcin Żabicki

TECHNICAL COORDINATION

Grzegorz Kowalski

PROJECT COORDINATION

Krzysztof Kossowski, Katarzyna Milanowska, Marcin Rembacz, Dominik Szewczyk

AUDIO DESCRIPTION MONTAGE

Dział produkcji multimedialnych Polskiego Radia

TRANSLATION

Barry Keane, Mariya Shahuri, Piotr Siemiński, Irina Zawisza

AUDIO MATERIALS SOURCES

Archiwum Polskiego Radia, Archiwum Radia Wolna Europa

PHOTO MATERIALS SOURCES

Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (NAC), Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP), Forum, East News, Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego (Ryszard Witkowski „Romuald”, „Orliński”; Józef Jerzy Karpiński „Jerzy”), Muzeum Warszawy, Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, Biblioteka Narodowa w Krakowie, Biblioteka Naukowa Polskiej Akademii Nauk Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności (PAN PAU), Biblioteka Politechniki Warszawskiej, Mazowiecka Biblioteka Cyfrowa, Biblioteka Kongresu USA, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu, Urząd Miasta Warszawy, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Wikimedia Commons (domena publiczna; CC BY-SA 4.0 – Kgbo), Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina w Narodowym Instytucie Fryderyka Chopina (fot. Waldemar Kielichowski)

VIDEO MATERIALS SOURCES

Filmoteka Narodowa Instytut Audiowizualny (Jan Ordyński, „Sztandar Wolności”), Biblioteka Kongresu USA („On the Firing Line with the Germans”), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (filmy Juliena Bryena)

Subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Rebuilding of the Saxon Palace, Brühl Palace and the tenement houses on Królewska Street - preparatory work

In the old Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Our journey begins in the mid-17th century, when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was engaged in numerous wars. After the Swedish invasion (known as The Deluge), Warsaw – the seat of the kings of Poland, began to recover from the destruction that had befallen it. Magnates, wanting to be close to the royal court, began to build palaces in the city.

 

Morsztyn Palace 1713

In the years 1661-1664 Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, a poet, politician, and future Grand Treasurer of the Crown, built a residence that would later acquire palatial splendour, and be known as Saski Palace.

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

1691 - 1785

Jerzy Ossoliński entering Rome

Artists: Julian Schübeler, Juliusz Kossak

Ossoliński Palace

Near to Morsztyn’s palace was a residence that was home to one of the most powerful and distinguished personages of the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jerzy Ossoliński, a diplomat and Grand Chancellor of the Crown, and the Marshal of the Sejm.

Jerzy Ossoliński

1595-1650

Elevators

Ossoliński was a man of his time. He not only based the design of his residence on Italian architectural models, but also oversaw the implementation in the edifice of technical innovations. Indeed, Ossoliński’s palace boasted two elevators that were the first of their kind to be found in Warsaw. The operation of the elevators was based on the principle of counterweight achieved thanks to pulleys and gears.

Part II

A Royal Residence of the Polish kings

Part II

Chapter I

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