Wspomnienie szarzy - 1920

Salve,
coraz częściej sięgam do publikacji związanych z wojnami Polski o niepodległości AD 1917-21, i 'kartkując' na Wielkopolskiej Cyfrowej  miesięcznik wojskowy ''Przegląd Kawaleryjski'' w numerze z 1939 roku natrafiłem na fragment wspomnień napisanych przez ppor rezerwy dr Tadeusz Kosiński ( być możne to doktor praw, prawnik i starszy asystent w Zakładzie Prawa Procesowego Cywilnego Wydziału Prawa Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie  - informacje o nim wziąłem z tego  artykułu - który po aresztowaniu prze NKWD w październiku 1939, spędził parę lat w wiezieniach i łagrach sowieckich, aż zaginał bezpowrotnie gdzieś w sowieckiej Azji Centralnej po 1941 roku).

Wspomnienia dotyczą wydarzenia w czasie jesiennej, zwycięskiej kampanii 1920 roku, i fragment przedstawia opis szarzy ułanów 1 Brygady Jazdy na oddziały piechoty bolszewickiej pod wsią Kłębówka koło Zasławia, szarzy  z dnia 23 wrzesnia 1920 roku, napisany dzień po jej wykonaniu,  w piątek 24 września 1920 roku:

Otóż wydaje mi się, że to jest nic innego jak opis fragmentu słynnej szarży 5-tego pułku ułanów zasławskich, od której to pułk dostał swoją nazwę. Opis szarży w ''Zarys historji wojennej 5-go Pułku Ułanów Zasławskich'':

Nota bene żurawiejki pułkowe tutaj.
Pozdrawiam
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o innej szarży pułku z 1920 roku, pod Korostyszewem - z malarzem Stanisławem E. Bodesem

Rotmistrz o siodle - blog

Salve,
in Polish only:
mości pan rotmistrz (kapitan) Robert Woronowicz, więcej informacji o nim tutaj,  prowadzi blog w którym miesiąc temu poświecił wypis na temat powstania siodła używanego w Szwadronie Kawalerii Wojska Polskiego.

Pan rotmistrz nazwał siodło wz.36/2012, a cóż ukrywa się pod tymi skrótami i cyframi, to już wyjaśnia sam autor w artykule w linku powyżej.

Przy tym jest to bardzo ciekawa opowieść o kawałku historii XXI wiecznej polskiej jazdy, nawet jeśli jest to li tylko kawaleria reprezentacyjna Wojska Polskiego, to wciąż nawiązująca do ponadtysiącletniej historii jazdy polskiej.

Pozdrawiam

Castles, towns and palaces on youtube - Polish Kingdom and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Salve,
los caballeros or knights and alike naturally had to live in castles, palaces, manors, and towns. Due to the wars, partitions and Communists regimes in all our lands most of these places do not exists in their glory being ruins or most often they have disappeared under the dust of times. But thanks to hobbysts, historians and archaeologists and businessmen some have been restored, either as real functioning museums and/or places of business or as virtual presentations. The most famous are the Teutonic Castles, most taken by the Polish Kingdom by 1466 - in this video presentation.

Zamek (castle) Bobolice , one of the Eagle Nests (video)of Jura(Upland) Krakowsko-Czestochowska, has been brought to life, after more than 3 centuries of ruin -  see this video. For our Polish readers this is an interview with the owner and spiritus movens of the rebuilding by the Lasecki family.

Another example of a stronghold  being rebuilt in this area is the zamek Korzkiew - their website.

In present day Lithuania the government finally rebuilt the famous castle of Troki/Trakai - nice photos here - but the reconstruction was originally started in 1929 and almost completed by the Polish Republic in 1939.
Belorussian government finalized the  rebuilding of the famous Mir castle - Мірскі замак - where in 1812 Duchy of Warsaw uhlan regiments  fought a defensive action against the Russian Imperial cavalry and the owner, one of the richest men of the world, 8th Uhlan Regiment commander prince Dominik Hieronim Radziwill lost the castle because he had decided to become a Polish soldier, he later died  of the injuries in 1813-  nice video here.

There are many multimedia projects in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lands that strive to recreate the appearance of these historic sites in animated renderings and videos.
some examples (links to videos are in [..] ):
Żółkiew/Zhovkva - established by the Crown grand hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski in Ukraine - [1 ]
Lębork - Pomerania - a medieval town [2]
Zamek Krzyżtopór - magnate residence [ 3]
Zamek Rabsztyn - [4]
Nieswież/Nesvizh, Radziwill residence in Belarus, [5]
Dobczyce - medieval town and castle [6]
Nieszawa - medieval town [7]
Royal City of Krakow & Wawel Castle-  a thousand years ago - [8a] [8b]
Ostróg/Ostroh - [9]
Biecz - XVI century appearance [10] [11] [13]
Tustan, castle in Ukraine built by Kazimierz Wielki [13]
Wieliczka , famous salt mines and their castle - [14]
 Kamieniec - castle [15]

and many others eg Kamieniec Podolski.

During the XIX century Polish patriot (veteran of the November Uprising  where he received Virtuti Miltiari cross for his bravery) artist Napoleon Orda drew, then engraved his drawings of former Polish-Lithuanian and Polish Kingdom castles and towns, and had these engravings published in a mutlivolume publication titled ''Album Widoków Historycznych Polski...'' - example here
enjoy
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all images are in Public Domain

Karol Tomczyk - ecuyer

Salve,
I am going to bring to this blog the writings on the historic riding - skillfully  presented in very readable fashion by my friend Karol Tomczyk, modern ecuyer from Poland - we have been friends for close to 10 years ... I lent him my copy of the English translation of Dom Duarte book on horsemanship ..

The writings are in Polish, so I am afraid you, the kind reader unfamiliar with reading of the rather difficult Polish language, will have to use Google translate, which is quite all right these days - :)
I call Karol an ecuyer - a term that aptly describes Karol as a student of old schools of horsemanship - from Xenophon to the cavalry manuals of the early XX century - and the practitioner of riding with modern horses and also a reenactor, mostly in the Napoleonic era events, like Leipzig 2013 or Waterloo 2015.

Karol created his own channel on Youtube, but has not posted much lately

a short lecture on horsemanship [ 1 ]  - in Polish
 A series of videos (1 through  7) showing training with  Kalifa Gazal - shagya stallion (Wiki gallery here ).

enjoy
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images from this great medieval Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript

Polish Peoples' Flag Day

Salve,
perhaps following the American Flag Day holiday the Parliament of Polish Republic established a flag day in 2004.

It is also the Day of the Polish Diaspora  {''Polonia''} all around the globe.

Holiday is a holiday naturally, but this year the Polish public TV (TVP) produced the Flag Day advertisement in which several people I know personally  - reeanctors and historical artists - took part and did it quite splendidly.
The little film shows more than a thousand years of Polish national colors and national history.

Winged Hussara reenactors Radek Szleszynski and Dariusz Bielecki, and the XVIII century Polish Commonwealth and XIX century  cavalry reenactor uhlan Dariusz Senator  participated in this filming, showing their period equipment, and in case of the winged hussars also showing off their well trained horses and horse tack ( the beautifully reconstructed horse bridles etc by Radek Szleszynski).

This is the TVP movie - [ film ]

Enjoy

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all images in Public Domain
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and if you have not read yet - do it shortly - M.B.B. Biskupski, Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945..

Sassanian Rock Relief Khan Takhti

Salve,
it has been a while since the last Persian posting, so when I saw a short article about this relief on Dr. Kaveh Farrokh's  site I decided to share it with you.
The relief in question is located in the Iranian province of Western Azerbaijan (ancient Urartu and Armenian Kingdom ), near Khantakhti in the Salmas county, and shows famous father and son team, namely Shahanshah Ardashir/Ardašir I and Shapur I/Šapur I, the rulers of the newly established Sassanian Persia.

This is not the first time they are shown together, famous rock relief of Firuzabad may be one example.
I am of the opinion that it is not a stretch of imagination  to say that the rulers are riding their trusted warhorses of the Nisaya/Nisean breed - famous horse breed of the Ancient Persia.

Enjoy
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all images in Public Domain

Rostrucharz

Salve,
a little entry in Polish today
Walery Wielogłowski, obywatel Galicji (zaboru austriackiego), powstaniec listopadowy który krwią i trudem swym wojennym nagrodzony został krzyżem Virtuti Militari, działacz narodowy i popularyzator literatury i sztuki (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych ), księgarz, wydawca (Księgarnia i Wydawnictwo Dzieł Katolickich, Naukowych i Rolniczych) , propagator rolnictwa nowoczesnego i nauki, był autorem min wielu opowieści i 'relacji' z życia ówczesnych mieszkańców Polski.

Jednym z takich dzieł autorstwa mości Wieloglowskiego jest praca pt 'Jarmark w Dąbrowej',  dziejaca sie w czasie jarmarku w Dabrowej
Tamże znajdujemy scenę handlu końmi na jarmarku, i autor używa staropolskiej nazwy na handlarza koni czyli nazywa tegoż handlarza 'roztrucharzem'. 
'' Rostrucharz, pierwotnie rostuszar (Rostäuscher), z którego (jak mówi Brückner) już w XV wieku rostucharza a później roztrucharza zrobiono – stręczyciel w kupnie koni, rajfur koński a nieraz i ludzki. W Vol. leg. znajdujemy: „Roztrucharze, co końmi kupczą, płacą od osoby po złt. dwa” ((t. II, f. 984). Rostrucharza, który ludźmi kupczył, nazywano: martauz lub ludokrajca (ob.)
 Klonowicz pisze o takim we Flisie: 
 Niecny rostrucharz z uczciwemi ciały
 Kupczy dzień cały.[1]''

Ale oddajmy głos autorowi Jarmarku:

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[1] Zygmunt Gloger, Encyklopedia Staropolska
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wywiad z nowoczesnym rostrucharzem

Marche du Roy - Adam Frans van der Meulen

Salve,
I do like the Baroque horse - and with more and more images appearing on the Net, this liking or fondness can be encourage with many period paintings, engravings or drawings.
So a quick look at van der Meulen, Flemish painter who was a pupil of the famous battle painter Peter Snayers (among other, the author of the Kircholm battle epic canvass) and upon moving to France   became one very successful French court (Louis IV) painter. - Wikimedia Commons has a large gallery of his epic works, including many horses and riders.
I found this print - engraved by Jan van Huchtenburg after a drawing by Adam Frans- showing 'Marche du Roy...' (King's march with his guard troops crossing le pont neuf and going to the palace in Paris).
The whole image is large as evidenced here (originally digitalized at Gallica), while there is also a coloured print - also accessible at the Wiki Commons.
So, here are the horses from the original print - most if not all have Roman nosed heads, long tails, and are not very big... they are ridden well and with dexterity, showing the airs above the ground training.
the lower group - fine ecuyers

carriage horses and more riders and horses

 a woman riding sidesaddle, with some cavaliers behind her

a distant soldiers or civilians group group

and men watering horses in the Seine River

enjoy