Grazyna - Krakow, Poland
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N 50° 03.481 E 019° 56.062
34U E 423721 N 5545625
This sculpture depicts Grazyna, a character from a poem by Adam Mickiewicz,
Waymark Code: WMQ0ME
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 11/23/2015
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This marble sculpture depicts a female warrior standing over a fallen young man. The life-sized figures are atop a tall plinth about 10 feet high.
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"Grazyna is an 1823 narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in the summer of 1822 during a year-long sabbatical in Vilnius, while away from his teaching duties in Kowno (present day Kaunas). Probably his first notable work.
The poem describes the exploits of a mythical Lithuanian chieftainess Grazyna against the forces of the medieval Order of the Teutonic Knights. The woman character is believed to have been based on Mickiewicz's own sweetheart from Kowno, Karolina Kowalska. The name was originally conceived by Mickiewicz himself, having used the root of the Lithuanian adjective gražus, meaning "beautiful".
It was said by Polish writer Christien Ostrowski to have inspired Emilia Plater, a military heroine of the November 1830 Uprising."
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