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Dwie drogi ze Wschodu na Zachód. Szkic biograficzny do historii polskich losów XIX i XX wieku

2020

The article was inspired by the biography of Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. The rich life of Zofia Kossak was full of extraordinary situations and twists and turns, but above all, her life was characterized by a constant journey. The road from one end of Europe – Ukraine, to the other – the British Isles. Her story became a pretext for presenting the path that two other Poles traveled from the eastern ends of Europe towards its heart and western borders. The first of them was known, although widely, but only from one chapter of the biography – Gabriel Narutowicz. An extremely interesting figure, who came to Switzerland from Lithuania for health reasons in the mid-1880s. He has found his new home in…