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unusual facts about Henryk Sienkiewicz


Wojcieszków

It has a historic church and a cemetery, where Maria Babska, the wife of Henryk Sienkiewicz, is buried.


Abdank coat of arms

In Henryk Sienkiewicz's "With Fire and Sword" the Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky, wishing to hide his true identity, falsely introduces himself to the main protagonist Skrzetuski as "Zenobi Abdank, Abdank Coat of Arms, Abdank with a cross, a nobleman of Kiev county".

Antoni Uniechowski

He illustrated nearly 200 classic books published in Poland, e.g. Voltaire's Powiastki filozoficzne (1948), Henryk Sienkiewicz's Potop (1949), Ignacy Krasicki's Monachomachia (1953), Stefan Żeromski's Popioły (1954), Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1954), Frances Burnett's A Little Princess (1959), Bolesław Prus' Lalka (1962) and Emancypantki (1972).

Barbara Jeziorkowska

Barbara (Baśka) Jeziorkowska (later Wołodyjowska) is a fictional character of the novel Fire in the Steppe by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Foray

In literature, forays were most famously portrayed in Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, as well as in The Trilogy (With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, Fire in the Steppe) of Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Hassling-Ketling of Elgin

Ketling (Hassling-Ketling of Elgin) was a fictional character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Fire in the Steppe, the third volume of his award-winning The Trilogy.

Jan Suchorzewski

Kazimierz Bartoszewicz compared Suchorzewski's look and attitude to that of Zagłoba from Henryk Sienkiewicz's famous trilogy, if more misguided.

Juliusz Kossak

He also produces a series of illustrations of Polish epic literature such as Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz, novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz, works by Wincenty Pol, Jan Chryzostom Pasek and others.

Krystyna Drohojowska

Krystyna (Krzysia) Drohojowska (later Ketling of Elgin) is a fictional character in the novel Fire in the Steppe by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Longinus Podbipięta

Longinus Podbipięta is a fictional character in the novel With Fire and Sword written by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Michał Wołodyjowski

Michał Wołodyjowski (Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski) is a fictional Polish hero, a great soldier, in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trilogy: With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Pan Wołodyjowski.

Polish Museum, Rapperswil

The library's memorabilia cover several centuries and include items associated with Tadeusz Kościuszko, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Władysław Reymont and Jan Nowak-Jeziorański.

Quo vadis?

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz authored the well-known novel Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero in 1895, which in turn has been made into motion pictures several times, most notably a 1951 version that was nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Samuel Kmicic

Samuel Kmicic may have served as the inspiration for the fictional Andrzej Kmicic, hero of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Potop.

Sarmatism

In the 19th century the Sarmatist culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was portrayed and popularised by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his trilogy (Ogniem i Mieczem, Potop, Pan Wolodyjowski).

Teutonic Knights in popular culture

The Order and its relations with Poland, Masovia, and Lithuania are the main subject of Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical novel The Teutonic Knights, which describes the era of the Battle of Grunwald from the Polish point of view.

Zbarazh

Zbarazh is one of the settings of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel With Fire and Sword (1884) in which he gives a detailed description of the famous Siege of Zbarazh.


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