The Łyczakowski cemetery was founded in 1786. It is one of the oldest necropolises existing to this day in Europe. The Powązkowski cemetery in Warsaw is ahead of four years.
This is one of the most magnificent necropolis on which I had the opportunity to stay. Although it is now more Ukrainian than Poland, the history of Poles is felt here.
On this cemetery, many well-known and meritorious people of Polish culture and art are hungering, Polish prophets. Polish painters, writers, soldiers, insurgents and defenders of Lviv.
This is what attracts thousands of Poles to this cemetery every year, who visit Lviv to visit the cemetery and pray for the dedication of their lives for their homeland.
Hundreds of insurgents and soldiers defending Lwów are buried in the cemetery of the Lviv Eagles. Many of them did not live to be of adulthood.
It was from this place that the body was exhumed and brought back, as it turned out later, a 14-year-old unknown soldier who was buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw.
The cemetery is too large and spacious for one post, but I will try to show it a little today. I will not focus on the architecture of the cemetery, because it is not uniform, graves and avenues are different from heavy, huge in some places even chapels to small and arranged in one order. We must remember that the cemetery was very devastated during armed conflicts. Few people know, but in the place of the Lviv Eaglets' cemetery, the Ukrainians made a garbage heap for themselves, only a dozen or so good years can be admired in such a state as it is to this day.
On the plaque at the entrance to the Orląt cemetery, we can see the board that here very strongly President Kwasniewski operated and opened a new cemetery. A blackboard, a blackboard, but what would happen if it were not for NGOs and history enthusiasts? Exactly, we opened it and the money for the reconstruction and renovation of the cemetery was laid by our taxpayers! The table should be changed to "The Nation of the Polish Republic" and not "President of the Republic of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
Many names do not need to be presented, but some of them still have to be:
Władysław Bełza:
He is the author of the famous poem (written in 1900) titled "Confession of the Polish child's faith" ("Catechism of the Polish child"), beginning with the words: - Who are you? / - Pole small. / - What is your sign? / - White Eagle.
Gabriela Zapolska, poet and writer of such works as:
1881 - One day in the life of a rose
1904 - Seasonal love.
1906 - Morality of Mrs. Dulska.
1907 - daughter of Tuśka.
1908 - Ms. Dulska in court.
And many many others!
Konstanty Julian Ordon: officer of the Polish Army, November insurrection.
Artur Grottger: Polish painter, one of the leading representatives of Romanticism in Polish painting, illustrator, cartoonist, author of a series of "cartons" about the January Uprising.
The cemetery is also well-deserved for the church, bishops of Lviv and clergy of various denominations.
I am building a new part of the cemetery where they are lying down on the battlefield in the ongoing war in Dombasa.
In the picture you can see new graves and places for other burials. Although the cemetery is officially not hiding the dead, there are exceptions and this one belongs to them.
Architecture attracts attention, although the cemetery and the tombstone of the deceased will not help after the monument itself, we can see that the one who rests there deserves a commendable remembrance.
Every year, millions of zlotys are sent to Ukraine for the renovation of Polish monuments and cemeteries. I will agree on the cemeteries! It is the Polish duty to care for our bards! Only spend millions on them, our castles and palaces of cathedrals, not to mention? Here in Poland, monuments collapse and are subject to degradation. I know and see myself because I'm trying to intervene as you saw in previous posts.
Not ours only them ... graves of our soldiers and meritorious people, but not castles and palaces! When will the Polish government wake up?
There are not enough hours to describe everything! Here you have to go for a few good days to feel that "yes I've seen everything," It's worth coming here for THEM and for yourself, here rests those who gave their lives for our country and built Polish culture. Worth seeing, praying or just paying tribute!
Pictures for the article are mine.
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