Zhovkva alias Polish Zolkiew - the town, church and castle Stanislaw Zolkiewski founded

 Salvete Omnes,

Stanislaw Zolkiewski, Polish  Crown grand hetman, inherited the sizable estates from his father, also Stanislaw.

no Zolkiew images from the 1600s, but this is Karol Auer print from 1838

During his career as a statesman and solider he augmented his wealth and holding, including founding a town of Zolkiew (by the will of Stalin and Khrushchev in today's Ukraine as Zhovkva).

Collegiate Church of St. Lawrence - the Zolkiewskis family sepulcher

 

The interior of this splendorous church also originally contained two monumental paintings - battle of Klushino 1610 by Szymon Boguszowicz, and Battle of Khotyn 1673 by Altomonte. 
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Crown Grand Hetman had this castle built

Zolkiewski's castle aka zamek

. the frieze on the Collegiate Church of Saint Lawrence contains images of horsemen, including the Polish 1600s cavalrymen 

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winged hussar

Saint George 

Saint Martin & beggar 

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Valete

Maryna Mniszech from Laszki Murowane & Moscow

Salve,
today let us go back to Europe, and to the lands of the winged hussars.
some years ago I wrote about this painting - showing Polish tsarina Maryna Mniszech going to her coronation  in Moscow. I wrote that that it had been lost.
Well, it has not been lost, but rather the Russian took it ... far away, to Russia, and presently it is kept at the Moscow State Historical Museum.

The canvass was painted (perhaps by Szymon Boguszowicz from Lwow), for the Mniszech family castle at Laszki Murowane during the first half of the XVII century, and then was taken to the Wiśniowiec Palace, the XVIII century opulent  magnate residence of the Wisniowiecki and Mniszech families (destroyed mostly during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, and some more during the 1939-45 period of the Soviet and German destruction of the cultured Central Europe).

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a fragment of the above Maryna's coronation painting, showing  splendid garments of the Polish nobility and her own coronation costume

in her betrothal painting there are more fine examples of historic Polish costumes

and finally her husband, tsar Dimitri , in a very royal stance typical of the period,  appearing very martial wearing a  set of armor not dissimilar from those worn by the wealthy winged hussar comrades.

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ps if you are in Moscow, Russia, try to see if they display these fine and very  Polish XVII century paintings.