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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Husaria w Warszawie

Salvete Omnes,
króciutko:
15 sierpnia 2016 roku rekonstruktorzy husarii przejadą w defiladzie wojskowej w Warszawie.
Detale przejazdu jak i gdzie można bedzie przyjżeć się husarii oraz... ułanom, lansjerom i szwoleżerom epoki Księstwa Warszawskiego , a takze porobić zdjęcia, do zobaczenia i uslyszenia w tym programie z TV Republika. gdzie dr Radek Sikora i Lech Struczynski wyjasniają kwestie defilady.
pozdrawiam

A short announcement:
next Monday, August 15, 2016, the winged hussar reenactors, about 40 horses and men with armor and lances and wings, will participate in the state military parade that will take place in Warsaw.

From about 8am they will be seen getting ready at Torwar and then, between 10 and noon, they will march with other reenactors (40 plus uhlans of the 2nd regiment, Vistula lancers, and chevau-légers lanciers Polonais de la Garde Impériale, and about 200 infantry of the Duchy of Warsaw period) to join the Polish Republic official military parade in front of the Polish Republic President and other government official.
I hope you can make it ...
enjoy

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Winged Hussar & film

Salve,
during the very last weekend of November 2015 I was invited, upon a word or two from Radoslaw Sikora, to attended the special screening of a newly made para-documentary film about how the painting of Our Lady of Kodeń arrived at the Sanctuary in then central Polish Republic.

The screening took place inside the courtyard of the old but restored Castle of Gniew on the Vistula River. The crowd of viewers and invited quests was large and after a Catholic Mass said at the Castle's chapel we all went to enjoy the show.

The film was quite spiritual and uplifting, I daresay rather enjoyable production to many a viewer; alas perhaps a bit too short for my liking, the film nicely combined legend, history, historic narration with dramatized scenes, along with some magnificent camera work. Winged hussars were featured prominently in it, almost all actors were amateurs save for 3-4 who were professional screen actors.

Also, during the same weekend the Gniew Winged Hussar company held their Koło Chorągwiane [company/banner council] and then there was a great hussar company feastept inside the castle. I slept in one of the ancient dormitories - seven bunk beds per one room, where Teutonic Order knights and soldiers might have slept until 1454(the first picture in this post shows the view from the 2nd floor dormitory window during that November weekend).
It was a t thoroughly enjoyable experience and I strongly recommend a visit there, especially during the warmer months, and the castle tourist office offers cruise trips along the Vistula River to various medieval castles located in the area of the Lower Vistula River.
I was honored to meet or revisit with some of the Gniew hussaria reenactors, however I met pan castellanus Jaroslaw Struczynski already at Kluszyn 2010 reenactment.

Nota bene I finally met pan Radek Szleszynski, winged hussar reenactor, artist and co-author, with Radoslaw Sikora, of the unique 'Husaria Rzeczpospolitej' album.

Finally, I enjoyed meeting castellanus Jedrek of Chojnik castle (great place to visit and full of legends), - all and all it was a great weekend, thanks to Radoslaw Sikora and Jaroslaw Struczynski - dzieki Panowie!

Enjoy
Ps
While being there we went to view the old battlefield of the Gniew battle, but I will share my photos in one of my next posts ...

Friday, July 9, 2010

Klushino 1610-2010 in Warsaw/ Kluszyn w Warszawie

Salve,
400 anniversary of the Klushino battle took place this past weekend in Warsaw, Republic of Poland. For me this was the very first historical reenactment that I participated as a reenactor.
Many things could be said about the event and people participating in it, but definitely for me this was one very interesting meeting with the 'living history from a saddle etc. From cavalry to infantries of various nations - Czechs, Russians, Poles, Ukrainian etc - one could see how much work and passion had been dedicated to the reconstruction of the period costumes, arms and armor, camps, cooking utensils, food etc, in order to present to the modern, technology-driven world palpable and historical reconstruction of the XVII century life. There were also female camp followers and noble ladies, some dressed in splendidly reconstructed courtly dresses etc.
Finally, the horsemen of husaria were there, in greatest numbers ever, with lances, wild pelts of animals, splendid horse tack on mostly well trained mounts, fancy weapons and armor - lovely and yet menacing sight to behold.

Polish actor Krzysztof Wakulinski Krzysztof_Wakulinski commanded the field as hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski, and narration was provided by another famous Polish actor Olgierd Lukaszewicz Olgierd_ Lukaszewicz

Many good people were there, eg in the above photo Polish writer Jacek Komuda www.samozwaniec.info/archiwum.php , wearing a delia with a fur collar over hussar armor and nice shishak, ridding his dapple grey mare.
The principal organizer Bartek Siedlar http://www.hussar.com.pl/13063/kluszyn-1610-2010-wasze-zdjecia-i-filmy ) was the spiritus movens of the event and actual director of the event - that was also filmed - while I would like to especially thank Agnieszka for providing me with a nice Anglo-Arabian steed Emir so I could ride on the battlefield and participate in some action on Sunday July 4, 2010.
I was especially impressed with 'Jareks' of Gniew Husar Banner http://www.zamek-gniew.pl/index.php?mod=more&idsel=77 - their hussar spirit and splendid reconstruction of husaria.

My friend Karol, Napoleonic reenactor and passionate propagator of historic riding, came to observe and we had a very interesting discussion on riding long, Xenophon, gaited horses of the past and Old Polish horsemanship with Tara and Rick Suligowski, US premier hussar, from California [sic!]
Polish, Ukrainian, Muscovite (Russian) and Czech infantry provided necessary firepower, and powder smoke at times was covering the field while cannon shots were thundering across the Vistula River meadow, where lots of debris from the Nazi Germany ruined and destroyed the Warsaw's medieval Old Town had been deposited during the post war reconstruction. Thus this past Sunday we accidentally walked and rode over some Old Warsaw stones and fragmented bricks that husaria might have walked many hundreds years ago.