Legends of Polish Equestrian - People


Honorary patron: Polish Equestrian Association – President Tomasz Sergiej

Polish Equestrian Association (PZJ), is the only official Polish equestrian organization recognized by the Polish Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee, which is also one of over 140 national equestrian organizations associated with the FEI – International Federation for Equestrian Sports [www.pzj.pl].

Patron: Support the PLPJ project, become a Patron of the Legend of Antoni Chłapowski

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Guardians: Family of Antoni Chłapowski



Rider, breeder and trainer. Descendant of General Dezydery Chłapowski. Creator and owner of the Horse Riding Center in Jaszków.

Born on January 2, 1944 in Lviv. Father Stanisław. Mother Wanda née Czerwińska. Sisters Maria, Janina, Elżbieta. Brothers Kazimierz, Mieczysław, Stanisław, Franciszek. Wife Marta née Klimowska. Daughter Magdalena. Graduate of the Higher School of Riding Instructors Strömsholm, Sweden.

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"I met Antek in 1982 in Svenamo Gard, at his excellent riding centre 'Rid Sport Center' in Smaland, Sweden. A couple of my Polish friends got me involved in their ARK (Akademiska RidKlubben) group riding at Bromma Ridklubb in Appelviken, Stockholm. Robert and Irena asked me if I would like to go with them to a summer riding camp at the Pole Antek Chłapowski's. They didn't have to ask me twice. When we got there, we were greeted with a smile by a charming guy, full of energy, a huge fan of horses, both live and mechanical, as we found out later. Live horses were at the top of the hierarchy of daily activities. The day started with work in the stable, after which we could wash up and sit down for breakfast. When I entered the stable, I could hear classical music from the radio, all the stalls had their doors open and from each stall a horse's head stuck out, curious about this new rider. All the hooves were on the inside of the stall threshold. It was unbelievable that no horse dared to simply go for a walk. There was a family atmosphere intertwined with military drill. Even the horses knew that Antek had to be obeyed. They wouldn't have run far, because the center was located in the middle of the forest by the huge lake Rusken. All around there were beautiful forest hills, excellent for off-road riding, with long gallops on many sandy and stony roads typical of Småland.”

Author: Monika Madeyska Wennerberg
Source: "My memories of meetings with Antoni Chłapowski" (2024) – Monika Madeyska Wennerberg

Entry updated: 10.12.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX



Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

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"My memories of meetings with Antoni Chłapowski" (2024) – Monika Madeyska Wennerberg

"Antoni Chłapowski" (2012) - Witold Dane

"Jaszkowo Again" (2011) – Stanisław Helak

"Welcome to Jaszków" (2011)

"European Jaszkowo" (2004) – Ewa Łobos, Anna Deszczyńska

"Small Horses, Big Problems" (2001) – Ewa Łobos

Other interesting links:

"Filip Mizgier bought a place known throughout Europe..." (2024) [Culture at the Foundation Portal]

"A man from Średziań bought a legendary place" (2024) – Zbigniew Król [Gazeta Średzka]

"Jaszkowo and the Vision of Poland in the Saddle" (2021) – Emilian Prałat [Voice of Średzki District]

"Antoni Chłapowski" [Jaszkowo Hippie Center Website]


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Rider, Olympian (Rome 1960), three-time medalist of the Polish Championships in dressage and gold medalist of the Polish Championships in eventing. Graduate of the School of Cavalry Cadets in Grudziądz.

Father Adam. Mother Jadwiga née Amrogowicz. Sister Janina. Brothers Janusz and Zbigniew. Wife Regina née Surmacz. Daughter Ewa. Son Michał. Graduate of the School of Cavalry Cadets in Grudziądz.

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(…) Marek, (…) was constantly looking for his place in life. And in this life, (…), there would have to be horses, competition, movement, young people, whom he saddled. (…). If it weren’t for the changing fate of Poland after 1939, his place would have been in the army, working with soldiers and training horses. His parents had land, horses, a large estate in Ostróda County. They left in 1920, and for what they left, they received a farm near Pniewy in the Poznań province. Like many boys from landed gentry families, not very wealthy, patriotically minded, struggling with difficult living conditions, Marek went to the Cadet Corps in Rawicz. In 1937 he graduated from high school. After training in the infantry, he passed the exams to the School of Cavalry Cadets in Grudziądz. With the star of a second lieutenant, he went to war in 1939 with 4th Trans-Neman Uhlan Regiment in Vilnius (PCBJ).

(…)The 4th Zaniemen Uhlan Regiment fought against the Germans along the Radom–Kozienice road, repelled tank attacks on the Kozienice–Ryczywół road, near Suchowola, and surrendered with the Red Army near Leczesne on September 24 in the Medyka area.(…)

He was in the underground. The Home Army. And again the war in 1945 in the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade on the Pomeranian Wall. He wore the 1939 rogatywka with imagination, only not with the blue band of the Zaniemen Uhlans, but with the white one of the 2nd Uhlans Regiment. He returned from the war with the Grunwald Badge. For a while he was the Commandant of Sławno. He said goodbye to his weapon in 1947. He was thirty years old, but he was a soldier, first and foremost, of the Second Polish Republic. Such men were not wanted in the Polish People's Army. He had no chance in it.

A difficult period began for him (…). He became the manager of a four thousand hectare farm in Koszewko on Lake Miedwie near Starogard. There was land. There were no people to work, nothing! He suffered, he was ill. After the hospital he found work in the Meat Plant in Szczecin. Then he was offered a job running a pig farm in Koszalin. Thanks to the support of Colonel Arkuszewski, a cavalryman and head of horse breeding, he ended up at Kter, a farm incorporated into the Stud Farm in Walewice. The stud farm was managed by the great breeder Jan Grabowski. (…)

The Stallion Stud in Łobez needed a man who would teach the stablemen work discipline. (…) [Marek Roszczynialski] explained (…) that the State Stallion Studs had a military character for years, they taught how to care for and love horses, but also how to take care of them. As an officer, lancer, cavalryman, he was faithful to the duties and laws of soldiers. As a rider, he taught horse riding. He also organized a modern pentathlon, in which there was a horse, a sword, a pistol. Fencing was also close to him as a sport. He was able to strive for a goal and achieve various goals. (…) Everything for him was the Polish nation, its youth, whom he taught patriotism.

(…) He was forty-three years old when he became an Olympian. He took part in the Olympic Games in Rome in the All-Run Eventing Competition. He took with him two mares of the Wielkopolska breed, Gafma, measuring only one hundred and fifty-eight centimetres, a dark bay daughter of the East Prussian Gafa and the East Prussian stallion Märzhase, who was born in 1953 at the Plękity Stud Farm, and Wizma, who was three years older. There could have been success in Rome. However, fate was unfriendly. Gafma, who was in excellent shape, injured her leg before the competition. Marek Roszczynialski mounted the weaker Wizma. A mare with a huge heart for the fight. She reached the thirty-second obstacle on cross-country in the heat. She had a cut on her fist and elbow from a concrete chip. She did what she could. She was unable to gallop any further. The team was broken up because he did not finish the cross at Wolborz and Andrzej Kobyliński. If it had happened differently, he and Marian Babirecki and Andrzej Orłoś would have had a medal.

On June 6, 1967, Marek Roszczynialski became the director of the Stallion Stud in Koźle. He worked there from 1967 to 1972. The area of ​​operations was the Opole, Katowice, and Kraków voivodeships. It was liquidated on June 30, 1972. The stallions were transferred to the State Studs in Książ and Klikowa.

Marek Roszczynialski is spiritually connected with Zbrosławice near Tarnowskie Góry, where the 1939rd Silesian Uhlan Regiment in horned caps with a yellow band was stationed until 3. In the Student Equestrian Centre and Horse Training Centre he devoted his life to young riders and horses. (…) He was a consultant for the film Pan Wołodyjowski. Above all, he was a translator of equestrian literature. He translated from German the excellent book by Anthony Paalman Springreiten – Jumping over obstacles, published thanks to the Academic Sports Association in Gdańsk, the District Equestrian Association in Katowice, the Higher School of Physical Education in Katowice in 1979, as an organizational and editorial work of Zbrosławice. Perhaps more valuable than this book for riders is the introduction to Wilhelm Blendinger's Psychology of the Horse, which Roszczynialski edited and translated, and published in 1984 by the Polish Students' Association and the Horse Training Institute in Zbrosławice, in cooperation with Anna Małecka from the Horse Training Institute in Zbrosławice and Adam Borowicz from the Department of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. (…)

Marek Roszczynialski was a versatile man. He was remembered as such in the stud farms, herds, in Walewice, Stubno, Łobez, Koźle, Zbrosławice, Lubniewice, in Szczecin, everywhere he worked and lived.

Author: Witold Duński
Source: Horseback for Fame, Volume II (2012)

Entry updated: 10.12.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Marek Roszczynialski He died on May 11, 1993 at the age of 75.
He was buried at the cemetery in Starogard Gdański.


Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

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"Memories of the co-creators of the legend... Zbrosławice" (2018)

"Zbrosławice – Calendar" (2018)

"How the Equestrian Centre in Zbrosławice was established" (2018)

"Before We Got to Zbrosławice" (2018) – Fragment about Marek Roszczynialski p. 7

"Riding Valley Zbrosławice" (2018) - Wojciech Ginko

"Marek Roszczynialski" (2012) - Witold Duński

"He rode a horse until the end" (1994) – Anna Małecka

"They Left Us – Marek Roszczynialski" (1993)

"Cavalry Units of the Second Polish Republic Part 08" (1991) – Lesław Kukawski

"Sensations in Paris" (1991) - Marek Roszczynialski

"Training or torturing animals?" (1990) – Marek Roszczynialski

"Pierre Durand and Jappeloup" (1989) – Marek Roszczynialski, KP

"Jumping in Bogusławice" (1989) – Marek Roszczynialski

"Successful Reconnaissance" (1975) – Marek Roszczynialski, Krzysztof Skorupski

"Stud Farm Stubno" (1976) – Michał Rudowski, Michał Wojnarowski

"The Millennium Parade" (1966) – Marek Roszczynialski

"Why aren't we in the top equestrian league?" (1965) - Witold Domański

"The start of horse riding after the war was not easy" (1965) - Leon Kon

LESŁAW KUKAWSKI: RIDING DICTIONARY – ROSZCZYNIALSKI Marek


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Anna Malecka

Doctor of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the University of Poznań. She abandoned her scientific career after a few years for horses, and especially for Cierń xx, with whom she came to the equestrian center in Zbrosławice, accompanied by an Olympian from Rome - Marek Roszczynialski. Here she began publishing books translated from German by Marek, such as "Gimnazjum ździeckie".

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Gallery:




Łucja Ginko – PhD in humanities, author of many publications on the history of literature, including “The Horse Has a Soul in Itself”. Wojciech Ginko – together with his wife, founder of the equestrian center in Zbrosławice, author of books, businessman and philanthropist.

Łucja Ginko – 'Luśka', in the memories of her husband, Wojciech:

"Imagine a 20-year-old student in love with horses, who the more she gets a beating from her trainer, the more she wants to ride. Easy? Easy. A tour through Kashubian Switzerland and the last trot after a whole day of riding. The tired horse stumbles and Łucja hits her head against a tree. A concussion, a dozen or so stitches and... a bill for Warsaw's blood-soaked upholstery, whose driver agreed to take her to the hospital. While riding a log in the Koźle forest, a hunter appears in front of the obstacle, waving a gun. Rodan stops dead in his tracks, Luśka hits the log with her face. Her teeth move, her upper lip reaches the end of her chin.

During the jump, Jasień gets scared. The falling horsewoman's leg stays in the stirrup. The group
stands on the ground as if petrified – because nothing can be done, and the terrified thoroughbred gallops around the sand arena dragging Luska behind him. After a few seconds he kicks out his leg, Jasień rushes
to the stable with a shoe dangling in the stirrup, and she, battered and mixed with sand, gets up and stammers: "Luckily I remembered that my shoes are too big." After a few days she mounts him and jumps as if nothing had happened. This is a bit harder to imagine. (…)"

Source: "Lucia Ginko – memories" (2024) – Wojciech Ginko
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Wojciech Ginko - married (Łucja, author of the book "The Horse Has a Soul"), two children (Daughter Agnieszka - medalist in dressage at the youth Spartakiad, son Kuba - only on the run-up). Creator of the Horse Training Facility ZSP in Zbrosławice, currently co-owner of the GG company - in the country, semi-trailers for transporting horses, export to the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czechoslovakia remains a company secret. Modest. When asked how business is going, he answers: who should do well, if not me. He claims that money can be made in the country - two well-placed things are enough: a safe in the wall and a brain. Hobbies: surfing, running, risky car driving and risky business.

Author: Anna Malecka
Source: Introduction to the second issue of the magazine 'Riders and Horses'

Below you will find links to related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library.

Entry updated: 26.11.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Lucy Ginko She died on December 21, 2018, at the age of 71.
On January 4, 2019, she was laid to rest cemetery in Zbrosławice, where she lived and where she ran her beloved equestrian center.


Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

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Publications

"Lucia Ginko – memories" (2024) – Wojciech Ginko

"Before We Got to Zbrosławice" (2018) – Wojciech Ginko

"How the Equestrian Centre in Zbrosławice was established" (2018) – Wojciech Ginko

"Zbrosławice – Calendar" (2018) – Wojciech Ginko

"Colorful Years" (2018) – Kuba Ginko, Jarek Nowak, Maciej Połoński

"Memories of the co-creators of the legend of the Zbrosławice Horse Riding Valley" (2018) – Wojciech Ginko

"Riding Valley Zbrosławice" (2018) - Wojciech Ginko

“The Zbrosławice beginnings of excellent Polish horse-drawn vehicles” (2018) – Wojciech Ginko

“The Zbrosławice June Revolution of 1982” (2018) – Wojciech Ginko

"Zbrosławice Horse Riding Valley – Supplement" (2018) – Wojciech Ginko

"Sentimental Sergeant" (2003)

"Sjonka" (1989) - Wojciech Ginko

Movies

Wojtek Ginko is Maciej Szczawiński's guest at PR Katowice

Wojtek Ginko about his book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Łucja Ginko reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Robert Osam reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Patrycja Modlińska reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosłavice

Mariusz Krzemiński reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Roch Siemianowski reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice by Wojtek Ginko

Izabella Bukowska-Chądzyńska reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

also check

Academic Horse Riding Clubs in Poland | PCBJ


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Anna Malecka

Doctor of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the University of Poznań. She abandoned her scientific career after a few years for horses, and especially for Cierń xx, with whom she came to the equestrian center in Zbrosławice, accompanied by an Olympian from Rome - Marek Roszczynialski. Here she began publishing books translated from German by Marek, such as "Gimnazjum ździeckie".

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Gallery:

Photos from the collections of Łucja and Wojciech Ginko.




Ph.D. in Physics from the Polish Academy of Sciences at the University of Poznań. She abandoned her academic career after a few years for horses, and especially for Cierń xx, with whom she came to the equestrian center in Zbrosławice, accompanied by an Olympian from Rome - Marek Roszczynialski. Here she began publishing books translated from German by Marek, such as "Gimnazjum ździeckie".

Dr. Anna Małecka – a native of Poznań, a doctor of physics from the Polish Academy of Sciences at the University of Poznań. She abandoned her academic career and the position of assistant professor at the Szczecin University of Technology after a few years for horses, and especially for Cierń xx, with whom she came to the equestrian center in Zbrosławice, accompanied by the Olympian from Rome and the last military champion (Eventuring) Marek Roszczynialski. Here she began publishing books translated from German by Marek, starting with "Equestrianism - Show Jumping" by A. Paalman, through "Introduction to the Psychology of the Horse" by Blendinger and "Equestrian Gymnasium" by HV Schusdziarra.

In 1989 she became the director of ZTK in Zbrosławice. She founded her own publishing house JiK, wrote, translated and published books on equestrian subjects.

In total, she published over 30 books. Together with Ewa Hordyńska, she edited the magazine "Jeździdźcy i konie". Her passion was also photography. She took pictures of horses for covers, calendars, postcards. She designed "horse" gadgets and sewed riding clothes, sweatbands, horse blankets, etc. She dressed the national junior team for the European Championships. From the beginning, she was associated with the dressage discipline, she was a competitor, PZJ instructor and PZJ judge, as well as a FEI candidate judge. Alongside Danuta Marszałek, she was a pioneer of riding in a lady's saddle in Poland. The first shows performed by Anna Małecka on Migrena took place at national competitions in Sopot and Zbrosławice.

In 2004, before her tragic death on July 6, she managed to prepare her second mare, Rodezja, for the start in the XNUMXst Polish Ladies' Saddle Championships, which won the gold medal under Małgosia Kaliszewska.

In 1997 she became the president of LKJ Lewada in Zakrzów, where she moved from Zbrosławice with her beloved horses Migrena and Rodezja. Here she continued her training and publishing activities. She was the originator and organizer of many courses, competitions and artistic events. Her unexpected death in a car accident left sorrow in the hearts of many friends because she was an extraordinary, creative and irreplaceable person.

Author: Elzbieta Kaliszewska

Entry updated: 05.11.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Anna Malecka She died tragically in a car accident on July 6, 2004.

The drunk driver didn't give her even a shadow of a chance. He hit her out of the blue with terrible force. She didn't even have time to touch the brake... She was buried in the cemetery of the parish of St. Nicholas in Zakrzów, sector: B, row: 28, plot: 2. GPS location: 50.2494885295, 18.151873837.


Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

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Publications

"Riding Valley Zbrosławice" (2018) - Wojciech Ginko

"A. Małecka, E. Hordyńska and A. Jońca, or the MHJ Stable" (2018)

"We regret to inform you that on July 6, Dr. Anna Małecka tragically died" (2004) – Ewa Hordyńska

"Stars of My Life – BEMOL" (1996) – A. Małecka, A. Bober

"Stars of my life – CZUBCZYK" (1996) – A. Małecka, A. Bober

"The Atmosphere Is Already There, or Talks with the Eventing Team Coach..." (1997)

"John Whitaker in Poland" (1995) – Anna Małecka, Ewa Hordyńska

Periodicals

Riders and Horses (1989-1997)

Movies

Wojtek Ginko is Maciej Szczawiński's guest at PR Katowice

Wojtek Ginko about his book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Łucja Ginko reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Robert Osam reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Patrycja Modlińska reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Mariusz Krzemiński reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice

Roch Siemianowski reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice by Wojtek Ginko

Izabella Bukowska-Chądzyńska reads a fragment of the book Jeździecka Dolina Zbrosławice


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Łucja Ginko – PhD in humanities, author of many publications on the history of literature, including “The Horse Has a Soul in Itself”. Wojciech Ginko – together with his wife, founder of the equestrian center in Zbrosławice, author of books, businessman and philanthropist.

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Polish Equestrian Association

On February 18, 1928, in the Garrison Casino at Aleja Szucha 23, the founding convention of the Polish Equestrian Association took place. The announcement of convening the congress was published in the 5th issue of the Rider and Breeder weekly, on February 1, 1928.

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Boguslaw Lustyk

Polish artist specializing in painting, sculpture and applied graphics. Thanks to his work related to horses, he became the second official Kentucky Derby artist in history. He opened the gallery "Lustyk Art Studio & Gallery" in Saratoga Springs.

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Gallery:

The photos come from the archive of Mrs. Ewa Hordyńska.




Andrzej Sarnowski devoted his entire professional life to horses, he was an expert and admirer of these animals. The originator and first editor-in-chief of the quarterly "Hodowca i Jeździec".

Born in Poznań, son of Barbara née Tyc and Kazimierz Sarnowski. Graduate of the Agricultural University in Poznań, Master of Science in Animal Science, horse breeder.

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Andrew Sarnowski
30.11.1952-23.10.2019

Horse breeder, creator and first Editor-in-Chief of the national quarterly "Hodowca i Jeździec", initially published as a regional magazine of the West Pomeranian Horse Breeders Association; in the years 1980-1995 deputy director, chief specialist in horse breeding, herd administrator and director of the State Stallion Stud in Łobez; in the years 1995-1999 president of the Racot Stud; in the years 2002-2008 manager of the West Pomeranian Horse Breeders Association.

In subsequent years, a private breeder of noble horses and an entrepreneur who was the first in Poland to implement the idea of ​​obtaining and processing milk from noble mares and cow colostrum for medical and veterinary purposes. In private, a descendant of an officer of the Blue Army, General Haller; an honorable man of action, gifted with a creative intellect but also a sensitive interior artist, absolutely devoted to equine matters, especially building and strengthening the authority of Polish-bred horses.

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Andrzej Sarnowski, born in Poznań, son of Barbara née Tyc and Kazimierz Sarnowski. Graduate of the Agricultural University in Poznań, Master of Science in Animal Science, horse breeder. Throughout his life associated with horses, most of his professional work was connected with Wielkopolska and Western Pomerania. He used to say about horses that they are an inspiration for everything that is good and beautiful, that they ennoble and raise standards, teach culture. In one of the issues of Hodowcy i Jeździeca he wrote that although breeding work can be hard and reality is sad and gray, the proximity of horses gives the opportunity to move to the ideal land of communion with the eternal and most faithful companion of man. He treated them with respect and the conviction that as animals of large spaces, they cannot be humanized, but it is the man who derives so many benefits from their domestication who owes them understanding of their eternal instincts. "You can't fool a horse, everything with him must be as it should be, this is what great professors taught me. Also order. Thanks to horses I also learned a certain discipline […]” – Andrzej Sarnowski once said. Among these “great professors” was, among others, Prof. Zwoliński, who, seeing in him outstanding predispositions, offered him a job as a breeder at PSO Łobez.

Andrzej Sarnowski used to say about breeding that the most important thing is a wise breeding idea adapted to the environmental conditions, not blindly following foreign patterns. Despite his incredible intuition, knowledge and experience, he often repeated – “I thought I knew everything about horses, but they still remind me of humility”.

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"A great enthusiast and creator of new solutions [...] a man with an extremely open mind and at the same time determined enough to turn his ideas into action [...] a man whose passion and commitment were contagious to everyone he worked with" - this is what prof. Paweł Nawrotek from the Nanotechnology Educational and Research Center of the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin. Their paths crossed when in 2019 they began pilot studies inspired by another idea of ​​Andrzej Sarnowski to assess the impact of colostrum (cow colostrum) on the viability of probiotic bacteria and to expand its applications in human and veterinary medicine. Unusually for the president of the company he founded, he said – "I know nothing about trade, I don't like it [...] I'm finally doing what I love, I invent, organize and conduct scientific research in cooperation with universities" – and he bred horses, noble ones. In this way he proved that collecting horse milk for medical purposes does not have to be associated with the breeding of cold-blooded horses and its consequences. Andrzej Sarnowski was passionate about sports, including horse racing. As he himself said during the competition at the Visarno track in Florence, which he observed in October 2019 – if he could choose again, he would focus his breeding work on breeding racehorses. When he founded the Hodowca i Jeździec magazine, paying tribute to his pre-war ancestor, he also thought about restoring the Pomeranian Griffon breed, hidden in the shadow of history, but this remained a dream. Andrzej’s unexpected and sudden passing on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, halted further work, both scientific and strictly related to horse breeding. A twist of fate meant that on that day he received information about the positive consideration of the patent application for which he had applied as the originator of the method of obtaining and processing horse milk and cow colostrum, but this information never reached him. In addition to improving the breeding of noble horses, which he conducted at the company farm in Gardno near Łobez (where an equivalent direction of activity was obtaining mare's milk), located just a few kilometres away from the no longer existing herd in Świętoborzec, he considered implementing a project called the "West Pomeranian Educational Centre for Horse Breeding, Raising and Training, as well as obtaining, processing and promoting the consumption of mare's milk". It was to be a continuation of the always existing idea of ​​education and professionalism in horse breeding, carried out with the support of PZHK and Polish breed associations. He had previously started a similar project in Racot, where the first class in Wielkopolska with a profile in horse breeding and use was established at the Agricultural School Complex in Nietążków. Unfortunately, after leaving the position of president of SK Racot, this and other projects of his authorship were dissolved. The mementos of just a few years of his presidency in Racot include the restored palace and farm buildings, a modern machine park, and a strengthened breeding farm. As Richard Nixon said: The greatness of a man is revealed not in everything going well, but in the failures, the disappointments, the sadness. Because only when you are at the bottom of the deepest abyss can you appreciate the magnificence of the highest peaks. This sentence fully reflects what Andrzej Sarnowski was like. Although His achievements and successes are described, little is said about how many attempts He had to make, often forced by extremely difficult situations, what risks He had to face, and how often He was disappointed by an unjust turn of events. However, he always looked at the whole picture, believing that everything happens for a reason; perhaps sometimes, without even noticing it himself, he persisted, stronger than the conditions of time and life. There is also a second measure of humanity, one that can be used by those who were lucky enough to meet Andrzej Sarnowski on their path.

Author: Maria Serdyńska

Entry updated: 21.10.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Andrew Sarnowski He died on October 23, 2019 in Szczecin. He was 67 years old. He was buried at the Central Cemetery in Szczecin.


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"Memories of Andrzej Sarnowski" - Grzegorz Nowak

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Publications

"The importance of colostrum for the foal" (2009) – Ryszard Pikuła, Andrzej Sarnowski

"The Stallion's Mother" (2006) – Anna Nowicka-Posłuszna, Andrzej Sarnowski

"Principles of rational horse nutrition part 2" (2005) – Andrzej Sarnowski

"Principles of rational horse nutrition part 1" (2003) – Andrzej Sarnowski

"Changes in Racot" (1997) – Anna Nowicka-Posłuszna, Andrzej Sarnowski

"Leon Kon – co-founder of the Polish driving school" – Andrzej Sarnowski, Zdzisław Witkowski

"Only those who were afflicted with a severe madness of love for horses, part 2, could do it" (2023) – Maria Serdyńska

"Memories of Andrzej Sarnowski, the founder of the Breeder and Rider magazine" (2020) – Maria Serdyńska

"Master of Engineering Andrzej Sarnowski" (2020) – Maria Serdyńska

"Memories of Andrzej Sarnowski" (2019) – Maria Serdyńska

"Andrzej Sarnowski has passed away" (2019) – Maria Serdyńska

"Memories of Andrzej Sarnowski" - Grzegorz Nowak

Periodicals

Breeder and Rider (since 2003)

Movies

Meeting with Andrzej Sarnowski


Related Legends:

Polish Horse Breeders Association

The purpose of PZHK is, among others: representing the interests and protecting the rights of horse breeders, supervision and control over organizational and substantive matters of the Associations and Sections, and improving horse breeding and breeding.

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Gallery:

The photos come from the archive of Mrs. Maria Serdyńska.

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Szczecin Courier 2010.

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Szczecin Courier 2020.




Major of the Polish Army cavalry. Director of the Kozienice Stud in the years 1954–1991. Breeder of such performance horses as: Blekot, Via Vitae, Bremen, Solali, Czerkies, Czubaryk, Czubczyk and Bronz.

Born on January 5, 1920 in Włodzimierz Wołyński, Volhynian Voivodeship. Father Stanisław. Mother Janina née Dziewiszek. Brothers Zbigniew and Bohdan. Wife Anna née Surowiecka. Daughter Beata. Son Bohdan.

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After graduating from Jan Zamojski High School in Zamość in 1938, after an internship in the Junackie Hufce Pracy, on the construction of the Łuck-Lwów road, he wanted to join the air force. Medical tests in the military hospital in Lublin came out well. Uncle Romuald, major of the 7th Lublin Uhlan Regiment named after Lieutenant General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, (…) however, saw in his nephew a cavalryman, farmer and horse breeder. Not Dęblin with the School of Aviation Cadets, but Grudziądz with the School of Cavalry Cadets. (…)

"I was a cadet after a year of study in Grudziądz. I went to war
on the excellent mare Rota. In the fight I changed her to a beautiful, chestnut Chatka, a few years old, from the mobilization. The lancer riding her could not cope with her, because she was timid. She carried me out of all dangers. In the ranks, half-bred Anglo-Arabian horses were invaluable. I had contact with this breed many years later as a breeder.”


Cadet Jerzy Sas-Jaworski, with the qualification of a senior uhlan, was a section commander in the 3rd squadron of Captain Bazyli Marcisz and a liaison with the regiment commander Władysław Płonka. Battles, charge in the vicinity of Mszczonów, retreat to the south of Poland in combat.

"We fought our last victorious battle with the Germans for the village of Dzwola, twelve kilometres from Janów Podlaski. On the first of October, only the Russians were ahead of us. We were armed, unbroken, ready to break through to Hungary. Colonel Płonka, a knight of the War Order of Virtuti Militari, believed the officers of the Red Army and surrendered to them. In 1940, he was murdered together with other officers in Kharkov. The Uhlans, unruly, broke sabres in a forest clearing. We threw the locks out of our rifles and threw them into the water. We set off in cavalry formation towards Biłgoraj. In the village of Aleksandrów, we were released from our military oath by the officers. (...) I was slightly wounded near Dzwola. A machine gun dragged over me. From a tank. I recovered in the settlement. The fog of brown German and red Soviet occupation spread over Poland. I was to live and fight in it.”

(…) In April 1940 he was in Podhale with the intention of getting to France. He was caught and escaped. He worked on the Karolówka estate near Zamość. The Germans began to displace Poles from the Zamość region and settle their own people. Through an underground organization he was transferred to Chełm. He worked on the estate of Felicjan Lechnicki, a pre-war senator, occupied by the Germans. His brother Zbigniew was with him, who repaired weapons for the forest units of the Home Army. (…)

Jerzy Sas-Jaworski with a Home Army unit, after the Warsaw Uprising, made it to his uncle's estate near Mińsk Mazowiecki, to Nowodwór. He was with him at Krystyna Bełkowska-Sas-Jaworska's, where the standard of the 7th Lublin Uhlan Regiment was kept. There, in Mińsk Mazowiecki, the sergeant of the Lublin Uhlan, the squadron chief, said that things were starting to go wrong, that the Russians were capturing the Home Army members and taking them to Siberia. From the District Recruiting Command, he brought an order to go to Lublin. There, they asked him where he had served in the army, where he had fought in September 1939. He was promoted to second lieutenant and sent to Wesoła near Warsaw. Then there was a course for officers of the Polish Army. In January 1945, he set off for Bydgoszcz with the 7th Infantry Regiment of the First Polish Army. Breaking the Pomeranian Wall. From 8 to 18 March fighting in Kołobrzeg. He was, after a wounded Soviet officer, the commander of a mounted reconnaissance platoon. In the April Berlin operation on the old embankments of the lower Oder near Siekierki, with his platoon and the support of fusiliers, he destroyed German machine gun positions with grenades. After crossing the Oder, fighting north of Berlin. There he came across horses, trotters, taken from Berlin, and belonging to the Irish Embassy, ​​which was not in the Allied coalition. Air raid by German aircraft, fragmentation bombs. Wound. Hospital. Escape from the hospital. He experiences Victory Day on 9 May forty kilometres from Berlin. In accordance with military pragmatism, he had to report to the command of the officer reserve.

"I was afraid I would end up in some infantry regiment. As a cavalryman, a mounted reconnaissance soldier, I didn't want to. I found out where the Independent Cavalry Brigade was quartered, fighting on the same section of the front. It was in Gorzów Wielkopolski. On my way I met colleagues from the Cavalry Officer Cadet School in Grudziądz. I was willingly accepted into the Brigade as a front officer. I was sent to the 4th Uhlan Regiment, which was being formed. It didn't last long. A car came for me with an order to report to the 1st Uhlan Regiment, which was moving to the Gryfice area and further east of Sławno. There was no officer position for me at the rank of second lieutenant. I was temporarily installed in the regiment's headquarters. Then I was appointed commander of the regiment's artillery battery. All old front-line soldiers. They had to be in some kind of discipline, which they didn't like to maintain. After Captain Jan Wieżański, I then took command of the third squadron. We were stationed in Sławno and the surrounding area. In villages where it was easier to survive. There was a shortage of bread, potatoes, everything. Normal peacekeeping service began. Training of uhlans, horse riding, selecting horses. In the spring of 1946, we were relocated from Pomerania to the Warsaw province. My 1st Uhlan Regiment was stationed in Garwolin, in the former barracks of the 1st Mounted Rifle Regiment. Since there was nothing to feed the horses, my squadron was sent to mow grass in the Pasłęk area in Warmia. I passed the hay to the regiment. I returned to Garwolin in the autumn. I learned that I had to hand over the squadron because I was going to Warsaw to be an adjutant to General Stefan Mossor, deputy chief of the General Staff.”

He did not become an adjutant. General Mossor was arrested in 1950. He was the victim of a provocation intended to compromise the officer cadre of the Second Polish Republic. He was convicted in the general's trial. The Military Information, which already knew the biography of Second Lieutenant Jerzy Sas-Jaworski, opposed the nomination. Unreliable people were not wanted in high positions in the army. In the autumn of 1946, the horses of the Uhlans began to be transferred to agriculture. In 1947, the 1st Warsaw Cavalry Division was disbanded.

"I was in it until the end. I was liquidating a squadron in the Polish Army Quartermaster's Office. After receiving my discharge certificate, I went to the personnel department to ask what was going to happen to me. I told the colonel that I wanted to serve in the Polish Army, which I joined in 1938 at the Cavalry Cadet School in Grudziądz. He rummaged through my papers and declared that 'We don't need people like you in the army. You'll go to civilian life!' It was March 1947. I wasn't cut out for the army. It was a blow. But I had to live. He learned from his colleagues, non-commissioned officers in Garwolin, that the Internal Security Corps - KBW were looking for people to work in the foaling plant. He reported to the command of the Internal Security Corps on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw and left with an order to go to the area of ​​Płoty, in Western Pomerania, where foals, children of military mares, were raised. That was how my work in horse breeding began (...). The first foaling farm was in the Komorowo estate near Resko. Łobez was nearby, and Major Marian Fabrycy was the manager of the Stallion Stud. I obtained a Pomeranian stallion with Gryf's smoking from him. The foaling farm was organized in the spring of 1949. I already had the first horses to renovate. But! The motorization of the army began and horses were no longer needed. Me too. Then I remembered Colonel Stanisław Arkuszewski, director of the State Horse Breeding Plants, with whom I had already tried to establish contact. His deputy was Major Henryk Harland. They wanted me to become a trainee, but for such money that it would not be enough for bread. I went to him asking for another job.”

The foal breeder was sent to organize a foaling facility in the Kujawy agricultural complex between Opole and Prudnik, near Moszna. The district inspector was Major Tadeusz Korbel, a veterinarian, and before the war the manager of the Stallion Stud in Gniezno. He visited the Stud Farm in Moszna. He met with the director Zygmunt Skolimowski, a pre-war breeder, a landowner from Surchów near Krasnystaw. After long, family conversations, in which the first bad impression caused by the officer's uniform of the Polish People's Army, which he still wore for lack of other clothing, was erased, he heard an offer to stay in Moszna.

"This is how my career as a thoroughbred horse breeder began. It would not have happened if not for Mrs. Janina, Zygmunt Skolimowski's wife, who turned out to be my mother's school friend. She convinced my husband that I was trustworthy and suitable as his deputy."

It was June 1949. Learning breeding from Zygmunt Skolimowski, reading books. Everything that came to hand. Moszna was until February 1, 1951. After a row with the gardener, he was transferred for a year to the Stud Farm in Kozienice to replace the breeder Władysław Byszewski.

"I came to Kozienice on February 1951, 1991, and I was at the Stud Farm until 1954. In my forty years of work, one of the most important events was January 1924, XNUMX, when I married Anna Surowiecka. (...) My route to Kozienice was prepared by outstanding people, engineer Stanisław Schuch and professor Witold Pruski. They knew me from Moszna. (...) Chief Schuch called me to his place and told me that I was to support the manager of the Stud Farm, and practically its founder since XNUMX, Ryszard Zoppi, an outstanding expert on thoroughbred horses, who had started to be wronged. I grew up in the army, I was used to recognizing authorities, military ranks. The greatest moral authority in my life is Józef Piłsudski. Constant conversations with Ryszard Zoppi, personal studies had an impact on what I know about horses."

Jerzy Sas-Jaworski had been the manager of the Stud since 1951, and its director since 1952. He was attacked three times. They wanted to take him away from the Stud. He somehow defended himself. (…)

In 1954 Ryszard Zoppi dies. His successor takes over the entire burden of managing the Kozienice State Stud, its land, people, buildings. In 1954 he is obliged to manage the valuable stallion Aguino. In 1955 he is one of the creators of the Kozienice Racing Stable at the Służewiecki Track. He changed the horse breeding technique. A very good rider, he supported the sport and practiced it himself at a masterly level. (…)

"Sports and racing horses that I remember? Skunks, Czubaryk, Czubczyk, Czerkies, Solali, Surmacz, Ariol, Sokolica, Blekot, Solnica, Via Vitae, Viaczyk (by Czubczyk), Bronz, Tyras, Bremen, Skarbiec. I won the Polish Dressage Championship on Akara. A middle-class horse. Too weak for jumping. I learned about dressage at school in Grudziądz. A large, beautiful horse of the Thoroughbred type. Obedient. Bred by the Stud Farm in Golejewko. Raised in Kozienice. The weanling came to Kozienice and was raised as a yearling. He did not stand out in races. He returned to Kozienice. He, Wandal, Besson, Argun, not qualified for breeding, became good sports horses. Impressive stallions were Aguino, Dar es Salam, father of Blekot, Good Bye, Brok.”(...)

Anna Surowiecka-Sas-Jaworska's pride is her son Bohdan, Polish Show Jumping Champion on Pericles, silver and bronze medalist on Bremen, and Olympian at the 1980 Moscow Games. Coach Marian Kowalczyk took his horse, Bremen, in Moscow and put Marian Kozicki on it, who won the team silver medal. Bohdan Sas-Jaworski accepted the coach's decision. He sacrificed his ambitions for the cause. However, he was wronged by not being given the opportunity to start in the individual competition on Bremen, who jumped under Marian Kozicki. This will be remembered at the Kozienice Stud Farm for as long as horses are bred there.

Jerzy Sas-Jaworski, a descendant of warriors fighting for Poland, himself a soldier, uhlan, partisan, scout, if it were not for the bad war fate of Poland in 1939, would have been a cavalryman and, after his uncle, the owner of the Nowy Dwór estate near Mińsk Mazowiecki, but he would not have been a breeder with a name written in golden letters in Polish breeding of the XNUMXth century.

Author: Witold Duński
Source: Horseback for Fame (2012) - Witold Duński

Entry updated: 20.09.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Jerzy Sas Jaworski He died on December 25, 2008 in Kozienice. He was 88 years old.
He was buried in the military sections of the Powązki Cemetery.


22nd Subcarpathian Uhlans Regiment (Brody platoon, white outline)

The regiment was formed in November 1920 from the merger of the 3rd Siedlce Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of Major Feliks Jaworski (later the 212th Volunteer Uhlan Regiment) with the Subcarpathian Cavalry Regiment (later the 209th Subcarpathian Uhlan Regiment), formed in 1920 to protect the oil fields in the Sanok region. It therefore took over the traditions of both the "Jaworczyks" and the oil patrols and convoys ("it stinks of oil"), which it performed until the end of 1920. The 212th Volunteer Uhlan Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Jabłoński took part in the war with the Bolsheviks as part of the Cavalry Brigade of Major Feliks Jaworski and bled to death in the battles on the Bug River. This is what one of the women from Żurawiej says.

It stinks of kerosene, it makes debts,
This is the Twenty-Second Regiment.

He carries kerosene, makes debts,
This is the Twenty-Second Regiment.

Where the wine flows in streams,
The Twenty-Second Regiment is there.

Always brave, always bold,
This is a Subcarpathian uhlan.

In battle he pours out his blood,
This is the Twenty-Second Regiment.

They dance wonderfully and passionately,
The girls kiss them willingly.

Every second person has hemorrhoids,
This is the Twenty-Second Regiment.


Source: Żurawiejki (1995) – Stanisław Radomyski


Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

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Books

"Kozienice Stud Farm" (1970) – S. Schuch, A. Starzyński

Articles

"Jerzy Sas-Jaworski" (2012) – Witold Dane

"About Kozienice and Biały Bór" (2011) – Marek Szewczyk

"Memories of Jerzy Sas-Jaworski" (2009) – W. Byszewski

"From Aquino to Ignam" (2009) – Piotr Szmytkowski

"Jaworski coat of arms of Saxony. Line from Łopatyń" (2007) – AZ Rola-Stężycki

“Stars of my life – CZUBCZYK” (1996) – Artur Bober

"Cavalry Units of the Second Polish Republic Part 22" (1995) – L. Kukawski

“Memories of Bremen” (1985) – Bohdan Sas-Jaworski

"Aquino" (1974) - Jerzy Budny

"The Strongest Club in Europe" (1967) - Witold Domański

"A Momentous Move" (1937) – Jan Grabowski

"Professor John Hammond's Visit to Kozienice" (1935)

"The State Stud Farm in Kozienice" (1927)

"Impressions from Kozienice" (1925) – Paweł Popiel

"A Thoroughbred Herd in Kozienice" (1925) – St. Wotowski

Periodicals

New Cavalry Review – 2008-28


Related Legends:

Kozienice Horse Stud

It officially started in 1924, with the arrival of Ryszard Zoppi, equerry Antoni Kupryjańczuk, and sub-equerrys Stanisław Magdaliński and Franciszek Matosek.

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BREMEN (KEMAL – BREMEN)

Team silver. and eighth place ind. at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. 2x bronze medals (1979 and 1981) and silver in the JMP (1983). He won the Grand Prix competitions at CSIO in Olsztyn (1981), Sopot (1983) and Plovdiv (1984).

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Participant of the Greater Poland Uprising, the war with the Bolsheviks, the September Campaign and the Warsaw Uprising. He commanded a squadron of the 13th Vilnius Lancers Regiment of the Vilnius Cavalry Brigade.

Son of landowner Stanisław Tarnowski and Wanda Dunin-Mieczyńska, who lived on the Barcikowo estate.

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From 1918, a member of POW (Polish Military Organization), he disarmed the Germans in Płock. In 1919, after running away from home, he joined the Greater Poland Rifles Unit in Jarocin. From December 1918 to February 1919 he took part in the Greater Poland Uprising. He joined the Cadet Corps No. 2 in Modlin. He participated in the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920. He was captured near Sarnowa Góra and then escaped from the transport. After the war, he could not decide for a long time about his military career. He started at the Infantry Cadet School in Warsaw in 1922, and after a year he moved to the Artillery Cadet School in Toruń, where he also studied for only one year. The next stage was the Cavalry Cadet School in Grudziądz (later the Cavalry Training Center - CWK). He stays there until 1926. He finishes his studies with second place. He was assigned to the 13th Vilnius Uhlan Regiment, where he held the following positions: commander of a platoon, squadron, and school squadron (after completing the riding instructor course at CWK), and in August 1938 he became the commander of the 1st Tatar Squadron (after completing the squadron commanders' course), then he becomes adjutant of the commander of the 13th Vilnius Uhlan Regiment.

He fought in the 13th Vilnius Uhlan Regiment as a captain. After defeating the regiment, he gets to Warsaw in September.

In the fall of 1939, he became the commander of the 2nd District of the Wola District in the following structures: SZP-ZWZ-AK. He took command of the entire forces of the 1943rd Wola District of the Warsaw Home Army District in April XNUMX (the youngest rank and age among the district commanders in Warsaw) - at the same time he was promoted to the rank of major of the senior cavalry sergeant.

Ranny August 5, 1944 at ul. Górczewska (K. Mórawski, K. Oktabiński, L. Świerczek, "Wola. Warsaw Thermopylae 1944", Warsaw 2000, p. 50; M. Tarczyński, "The Warsaw Uprising in Wola".

On 2 October 1944, by order L.497/BP, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel with the justification: "For personal conduct and courage during the fighting in Warsaw".

His wife Elżbieta Tarnowska née Grodzicka ps. From 1943, Danka served as a personal liaison to the Commander of the XNUMXrd Wola District of the Warsaw District of the Home Army.

German captivity - prisoner of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf, and then oflag II C Woldenberg.

In March 1945, he returned to the country under the conspiratorial name Stanisław Mazurkiewicz. He worked at the Soap Factory in Racibórz. On March 18, 1947, he revealed his activities in the ranks of the Home Army to the Public Security authorities.

In March 1947, he was seriously ill and was taken to a hospital in Katowice, where he died soon thereafter. Buried in 1956 at the Powązki Military Cemetery, plot 24B-11-3.

Author: Warsaw Uprising Museum
Source: www.1944.pl

Entry updated: 07.08.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Jan Tarnowski died on March 29, 1947 in a hospital in Katowice. He was 43 years old then.

In 1956 he was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw (plot B24-12-4)


13th Vilnius Ulan Regiment (MP. Nowa Wilejka, pink ring)

From the very beginning of the regiment's existence, its officers were distinguished by particular courage and imagination, but also... audacity. Among them were such leaders as the first commander of the 13th regiment. Major Władysław Dąmbrowski, Captain Jerzy Dąmbrowski, or Captain Kazimierz Hrakało-Horawski. The regiment was known for its extraordinary fighting spirit.

Always brave and fighting.
This is the thirteenth pink regiment.

Although the rim is pink,
This is a combat regiment after all.

Its rim is pink.
Formerly it was a combat regiment.

And the thirteenth, although pink.
However, he is deadly in battle.

And the thirteenth one, the pink one,
Great grandeur, but combative.

Their look is proud, their face is yours.
This number thirteen is uhlan.

The eyes of an eagle, the face of a lord,
This number thirteen is uhlan.

And the thirteenth one is shitty,
They lose their lances near Wilejka.

He plunders the Jews with his rake.
The Thirteenth Regiment is not stupid.

And Dąbrowski's number thirteen,
He beats Jews, something terrible.

And the thirteenth regiment is not stupid,
He plunders his enemies, he plunders his own.

Steal the chickens, escape into the grain.
Only the thirteenth regiment can.

Venereal and drunk.
This is the thirteenth uhlan regiment

The moon on the head, the star above,
The famous one is Tatarska Jazda.

Moon in the forehead, wid... star,
This is our Tatarska Jazda.

The moon in front, the star in the back
This is our Tatarska Jazda.

A plaster on the d…, a star on the head,
This is the Tatar famous Yazda.

Half Tatars, half Poles.
This is the thirteenth uhlan regiment.

And whoever rapes widows of peasants,
This is the thirteenth plague regiment.


Source: Żurawiejki (1995) – Stanisław Radomyski


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"Lancemen, Uhlans and Mounted Riflemen in the Photography of Narcissus Witczak-Witaczyński" (2013) – Stanisław Zieliński, Leszek Nagórny

"Cranes" (1995) - Stanisław Radomyski

"13th Vilnius Uhlan Regiment" (1994) – Lesław Kukawski

"Book of Polish Riding" (1938) - Collective work


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Tadeusz Komorowski

Colonel of the Polish Army cavalry. Commander in Chief of the Home Army. Commander of the Warsaw Uprising. Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile.

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Gallery:

The following archival material comes from the archive Warsaw Uprising Museum, NAC and from the archives of Jan Tarnowski's family




Colonel of the Polish Army cavalry. Commander in Chief of the Home Army.
Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile.

Father Mieczysław. Mother Wanda née Zaleska. Sister Jadwiga. Brother Władysław. Wife Irena née Lamezan-Salins. Sons Adam and Jerzy. A graduate of the Military Academy - Franz Józef Militär Akademie in Vienna.

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General Tadeusz Bór Komorowski came from one of the oldest aristocratic Polish families and his direct ancestors, bearing the Korczak coat of arms, owned estates, among others. in the Trembowla district. We are talking about the already mentioned person, Adam Komorowski (probably the General's 6th great-grandfather), who was the owner of the estate in Łoszniów. He gifted the Carmelite order, brought to Trembowla in 1617 by the then starosta Piotr Ożga from Ossa, with a significant sum of 6000 zlotys for the construction of a church. (…)

Due to the very difficult financial situation of the family and encouraged by Rozwadowski, after graduating in 1913 junior high school in Lviv, he entered the Franz Josef Militӓr-Akademie in Vienna (in later years he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic University). When asked by Kornel Krzeczunowicz about the reasons for the decision, he replied that he had thought it over and that in the future Poland would need "real soldiers." A surprisingly mature statement for an eighteen-year-old who likes sports. At the same time, Count Władysław studied at the Academy. Piniński. After graduating from the Academy in 1915, as a cavalry cadet, he became a second lieutenant with seniority on March 15, 1915. in the Home Defense Uhlan Regiment No. 3, renamed two years later to 3. Mounted Rifle Regiment. From 1914 r. There were military operations going on and Tadeusz took part in them on the Russian and Italian fronts. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1916. with seniority from 1. November. In 1918 when Captain Józef Dunin-Borkowski began to organize the 3rd Mounted Rifle Regiment in Dębica, soon (in February 1918) renamed the 9th Uhlan Regiment, Lieutenant Tadeusz Komorowski, who brought a group of soldiers equipped with twelve machine guns straight from the Italian front (in Grazu fought a battle with Austrian soldiers trying to take their weapons), he joined the emerging regiment and was its co-organizer. He took part in the war with the Ukrainians in 1919. and in 1920 - with the Bolsheviks. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, as a cavalry captain in the 12th Podolia Uhlan Regiment, leading the regiment into battle on August 31 during the Battle of Komarov, he was wounded, but initially treated on the battlefield, he refused to leave and only in the evening was he forcibly sent by General Rómmel to field hospital. He was verified as a captain (seniority from June 1, 1919). locomotive 69), in 1923 for participating in the war of 1918-1921 he was awarded on January 26, 1922. awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari class V (no. 3001). He remained loyal to the cavalry. After the end of combat operations and partial demobilization, Komorowski's riding talent was most likely noticed, because already at the end of November 1920 he was entrusted with teaching horse riding in the regiment. In 1921 he returned to the 9th Uhlan Regiment, taking up the position of deputy commander of the regiment, then stationed in Żółkiew. In 1922 Komorowski left the regiment after being transferred to a ten-month horse riding improvement course at the Cavalry Training Center in Grudziądz, and at the end of that year he was entrusted with the position of a horse riding instructor at the Artillery Officers' School in Toruń, where he trained the first round of cadets. In the same year, the Regiment partially settled in Czortków (regiment headquarters, communications platoon, squadrons of the 2nd and heavy machine gun), partly in Wygnanka near the city, and the 1st and 3rd squadrons in 4. – in Trembowla (the pioneer platoon was stationed in Brzeżany in those years, and the reserve squadron – in Stanisławów). He was promoted to the rank of major in 1923. (seniority from July 1, 1923 locomotive 22), and in 1924 was moved to 8. Uhlan Regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Władysław Bzowski (ex-husband of the famous poet, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, daughter of the painter Wojciech Kossak). The commander's strong emphasis on cavalry training allowed Komorowski to focus on what he liked the most - special sports training. Komorowski was in his element as the commander of the 2nd Division stationed in Kobierzyn near Kraków, where good conditions for horse riding allowed him to improve his skills. A dozen or so riders from this regiment practiced sports riding, and the horses belonged to the Polish top league - so they represented Poland in international competitions. Major Tadeusz Komorowski belonged to the group of Olympic athletes. Olympic Games in Paris in 1924

(…) this is the Polish team in the Comprehensive Riding Horse Competition, consisting of: Lt. Col. Karol Rómmel in Krechowiak, Capt. Kazimierz Suski on Katty Lady, Lt. Kazimierz Szosland on Hela and Major Tadeusz Komorowski on Amon overcame all obstacles very well. The riders made up for the lack of quality of horses with their bravado and excellent riding technique. In order not to tire the horses too much, Polish riders led them by the bridle for miles. The commission concluded that only Poles had completed the task in full. Ultimately, they placed seventh. In the general classification of the competition, Major Tadeusz Komorowski took 26th place. It was considered that achieving better results was not possible at that time due to the quality of the horses.

In 1926, he was entrusted with organizing the School of Professional Cavalry Non-Commissioned Officers in Lviv, and appointed commander of the School. The school's task was to standardize the training of professional cavalry non-commissioned officers from various conquering armies, increase discipline and train them. Moving the school to Jaworow, 50 km away from Lviv, allowed Komorowski to take part in competitions on the Lviv horse racing track. He used his own good half-bred horses and other horses for sports riding, which he trained himself, coming from the breeding farm of Count Tarnowski from Chorzelów. Most often he rode a bay mare, Great Granddaughter. He won many awards at races in Lviv, but he also competed successfully in indoor riding arena competitions. Sports success did not go hand in hand with a good personal life. After settling in Lviv, the family struggled with financial problems. Tadeusz Komorowski tried to help as much as he could, but he was unable to support her. The health problems of his brother and father, and the subsequent suicide of the latter, kept Tadeusz awake at night. However, he worked and trained, advancing and achieving success in equestrian sports. In November 1927, Major Tadeusz Komorowski took over the position of commander of the 9th Regiment after Lt. Col. Dipl. Janusz Pryziński, and on January 1, 1928, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel (seniority from January 1, 1928, location 18). The regiment was then stationed in Chortkiv and Trembowla.

In 1927, the Sokół-Macierza horse competition was held in Lviv. The end of the "Militari" race took place on May 17. Major Komorowski on Prawneczki won, scoring 1863 out of 2000 possible. Leon Krzeczunowicz, leading in the classification, was disqualified for avoiding an obstacle. A few days later, on May 23, Komorowski won the hunting race on his mare Ta Trzecia, winning the prize in the form of a golden cigarette case worth PLN 800, containing PLN 100. Komorowski appreciated this award very much. During this period, he met his future wife, Irena Lamezan-Salins, daughter of General Robert Lamezan-Salins. (…)

Col. Komorowski's numerous activities in the regiment did not constitute an obstacle to taking part in equestrian competitions. During this period, he planned to marry Irena Lamezan-Salins, daughter of General Robert Lamezan-Salins, in September. It was to take place in Świrz, an estate belonging to Irena's mother. During the Army Championships (later the Comprehensive Riding Horse Competition), which Komorowski dreamed of winning, an accident occurred. During a cross-country race, in which he rode Granddaughter (born 1927), a mare he rode, on which he won many competitions by jumping over logs of wood, as a result of her leg catching on a log, the mare fell down, crushing the rider. He suffered a broken two ribs and a collarbone, and soon, in July, during the above-mentioned maneuvers, it suddenly swelled and ended up in the hospital. The diagnosis, considering the state of medical knowledge at that time, did not allow for optimism - a kidney was damaged during an earlier accident and the onset of uremia. Although the planned wedding was postponed, the treatment did not bring results. Only the therapy undertaken as a result of Dr. Alfred Edelmann's diagnosis in a hospital in Vienna and a several-month stay in Heluan in Egypt gave positive results. The wedding planned in Świrz took place on February 24, 1930, but far from Irena's family home, in a Polish church in Vienna. (…)

In 1933, Komorowski was promoted to the rank of colonel (with seniority from January 1, 1933). As recalled in his study by the officer of the 9th Regiment, the legendary Rtm. Edward Ksyk, "With the arrival of the new commander, a different spirit blew in the regiment." Exercises began to improve dressage riding under the supervision of the regiment commander, who practiced together with officers. At the same time, field exercises, map application exercises, combat training, drill and shooting were not neglected. Horse riding, previously practiced by a few officers, became a practice for all officer youth. We didn't have to wait long for the results - the level of riding in the squadrons significantly increased. Careful clothing began to be worn, old coats, still from American deliveries from the war, were withdrawn (they were used to repair damaged trousers), replaced by Polish coats, made in accordance with applicable regulations. The level of training was gradually improving, but Colonel Komorowski constantly increased the requirements.

Before the Olympics, a competition was held in Nice, in which the players trained by Komorowski won the cup.

At the turn of 1935/36, Komorowski was assigned to the Cavalry Training Center in Grudziądz, and he was entrusted with the function of head of the equestrian team that was to represent Poland in 1936 at the XNUMXth Olympics in Berlin. The very fact of choosing a person who did not frequent Warsaw salons, but worked somewhere on the outskirts (Borderlands) of the Republic of Poland, and did not seek honors, positions and prestigious functions, proves that he was appreciated as a rider, organizer and diplomat. It is worth mentioning, however, that the level of training and the quality of horses of the Polish team did not promise success. (…)

As it turned out, Komorowski was able to inspire the competitors with such a willingness to fight that in the Comprehensive Riding Horse Competition, despite the fall of the captain. Kawecki, resulting in a painful cracked rib, willpower and dedication gave great results - a silver medal in this difficult competition. Winning the gold medal would have been possible if the Polish side had protested against the medal given to the winner, German lieutenant Konrad von Wangenheim, who, as a result of a fall, broken collarbone and fractured humerus, finished the race thanks to the help of his friend. (…)

The course of the Olympics aroused many protests due to the falsification of the results by the majority of German judges. When Polish competitors were unfairly given penalty points during one of the pre-race competitions, Komorowski protested so strongly that the unfair decision was eventually withdrawn. The Polish team consisted of: rtm. Zdzisław Kawecki, captain Seweryn Kulesza, captain Henryk Roycewicz-Leliwa took second place in the Multilateral Riding Horse Competition, scoring 911,7 points. (…)

Komorowski stayed in Grudziądz and already on the second day of the war, which began on September 1, 1939, with the Germans bombing Wieluń, he managed the evacuation of the Center to Garwolin and then headed the reserve center in Garwolin, including the Cavalry Training Center and the reserve centers of the Masovian and Pomeranian Cavalry Brigades. . Then, on September 3, Komorowski was entrusted with managing the defense of the section of the Vistula from Góra Kalwaria to Dęblin. The heroic fight for every piece of Polish land, for every village, grove, meadow, did not bring success. (…)

He began serving as commander of the Western Area in the fall of 1941. His wife followed him to Warsaw. In Warsaw, he used false documents in the name of Jerzy Korabski. The couple lived separately, in full conspiracy (her surname was Malinowska). Komorowski, in addition to his military duties, was tasked by Grot-Rowecki with maintaining contact with the government delegate, Cyryl Ratajski. In February 1942, the ZWZ was renamed the Home Army, whose command body was the Main Headquarters. (…)

The Uprising was taking place when the Soviet army stood on the other bank of the Vistula. Together with the Soviets, subordinated to them, Poles who joined the ranks of the Kosciuszko members to fight for Poland. One of them, a former officer of the 9th Małopolska Uhlan Regiment, Lt. Col. Edward Pisula, tried to cross the Vistula River at the head of his 3rd Uhlan Regiment of the Polish People's Army (he had previously practiced such operations on the Dniester with the 9th Regiment) to help the insurgents. Forcibly detained, he was imprisoned in Italy, where he was murdered. The faithful sons of the Republic of Poland were shaped this way by their commanders, such as General Komorowski, and this is how they saw service for Her, making the highest sacrifice. During the Uprising, Komorowski was ill; In addition to his poor physical and mental condition, he suffered from sinusitis. The symptoms worsened when he was injured. Finally, after 63 days of fighting, the actions were stopped and the "Agreement on the cessation of hostilities in Warsaw" was signed in Ożarów Mazowiecki at the headquarters of Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. General Tadeusz "Bór" Komorowski was captured by the Germans. (…)

After the intervention of the Swiss envoy Feldscher, he was released from captivity. It was liberated near Innsbruck by American soldiers of the 103rd Infantry Division. After a short stay in the Polish Military Center (former Oflag VIIA Murnau) and Paris, a few days after the capitulation of Germany, he arrived in London on May 12, 1945.

Despite so many achievements and decorations, the General did not receive any salary from the British government after the war; he and his wife received only small amounts from the Home Army, which was not enough to support themselves. Irena ran an upholstery company where they both worked. During this period, Komorowski made several trips related to his function to the USA, where he participated in the anniversary celebrations of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. He received job offers as a consultant but did not accept them. He did not forget about his subordinates, Home Army soldiers, still in prisoner of war camps in Germany. He sought permission from the English to emigrate from Germany to England. In the face of strong opposition, he demanded permission to go to Germany to the POW camp where they were staying.

General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski died suddenly of a heart attack while hunting near Bletchley.

The greatness of the General, his outstanding personality and the character traits of this steadfast Pole-Patriot are so intimidating that choosing the right words to express admiration and respect is extremely difficult. However, it is worth quoting a few statements of those people who characterized the General's character. (…)

Author: Barbara Seidel
Source: General Tadeusz Bór Komorowski (2024)

Entry updated: 04.07.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Tadeusz Komorowski died on August 24, 1966. He was buried in Gunnersbury Cemetery in London. In 1994, the general's ashes were brought to Poland by his son. They were deposited in the headquarters of the Home Army Headquarters at the Powązki Military Cemetery (section A 28-7-7).


9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment (Trembowla MP, amaranth ring)

The regiment was formed in 1809 during the Duchy of Warsaw. He took part in the November Uprising. After years of captivity, the regiment was recreated in November 1918 based on the Polish cadre of the Austrian 3rd National Defense Uhlan Regiment.

He changed Chortkiv to Trembowla,
Now he cries like a baby.

Whether the ninth regiment wants it or not,
They carry a bunch under their saddles.

They fly like devils in the charge,
Borkowski's lancers.

Good in the field, poorly clothed.
Borkowski is uhlans.

And the ninth plague regiment,
He throws his lances and goes into the ditches.

In Podolia, among the grain fields,
A regiment of uhlans guards the borders.

White roses bloomed.
On our blood, under Podgórze.


Source: Żurawiejki (1995) – Stanisław Radomyski


Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

Click on the links below to access related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library (will open in a new tab):

"General Tadeusz Bór Komorowski" (2024) – Barbara Seidel

"Irena Komorowska" (2024) - Barbara Seidel

"Irena of Lamezan-Salins Komorowska" (2023) – Magdalena Białonowska, Anna Kalinowska

"Decisions 'Bora' [fragments] (2023) – Wojciech Rodak

"The Commandant" (1939-1943) (2023) | A fragment of the book "Decisions 'Bora'", published by Ośrodek Karta

"The Olympian" (1924-1939) (2023) | A fragment of the book "Decisions 'Bora'", published by Ośrodek Karta

"The Cavalryman" (1919-1923) (2023) | A fragment of the book "Decisions 'Bora'", published by Ośrodek Karta

"Trembowla part VI” (2023) – Barbara Seidel

"Trembowla part V” (2021) – Barbara Seidel

"Trembowla part IV” (2020) – Barbara Seidel

"Trembowla part III" (2019) – Barbara Seidel

"Trembowla part II" (2018) – Barbara Seidel

"Trembowla part I" (2017) – Barbara Seidel

"At the Side of the Home Army Commander" (2014) – Irena Komorowska

"Lancemen, Uhlans and Mounted Riflemen in the Photography of Narcissus Witczak-Witaczyński" (2013) – Stanisław Zieliński, Leszek Nagórny

"Tadeusz Komorowski-Bór" (2012) – Witold Duński

"9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment 1809-1947" (2011) – Andrzej Przybyszewski

"Commanders of the Cavalry Training Center..." [link](2010)

"Cavalry Units of the Second Polish Republic Part 40" (1998) – L. Kukawski

"Cranes" (1995) - Stanisław Radomyski

“9. "Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment" (1993) - Lesław Kukawski

"About the Polish cavalry of the 1991th century" (XNUMX) - Cezary Leżeński, Lesław Kukawski

"History of horse riding, part VII” (1990) – Witold Domański

"Paris Olympics 1924" (1990) – Leon Kon

"Berlin Olympics 1936" (1982) – Witold Pruski

"Book of Polish Riding" (1938) - Collective work

"To Mr. Captain Stanisław Olszowski, the Organizing Committee of the International Horse Riding Competitions" (1927)

"Horse racing program at the Janowski airport" (1927)

"Berlin 1936, or the famous (...) eventing competition" [link]


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The following archives are from Warsaw Uprising Museum




Brigadier General of the Polish Army, head of the Military Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Poland, co-founder of Polish equestrian sports, participant of the 1912 Olympic Games in the Russian national team.

He was born on October 4, 1886 in Zhytomyr, Volyn Governorate. Father Antoni. Mother Helena née Hulanicka. A graduate of the Nikolaev Cavalry School in St. Petersburg and the Military Academy in Warsaw. Brigadier General of the Polish Army

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He was a great rider, soldier and great patriot. Poland did not exist on the map of Europe in the year he was born. He wanted to be a soldier, but he could only become one in the ranks of the Russian army, just like thousands of Poles in the Russian Empire. He began his education as a Cadet Corps midshipman at the Naval School, and eventually graduated from the Cavalry School. In 1912 he was a lieutenant, and from February 23, 1916, a captain.

He had been riding horses since he was a child, which influenced his choice of military specialty.

His greatest successes were both in the saddle, on horseback, and in creating conditions conducive to the development of Polish horse riding. This became possible only after the end of World War I. He fought there from August 12, 1914. He found himself in Poland in 1908 with the Ukrainian Hussar Regiment, which was stationed in Sierpc. There in the second lieutenant's quarters Sergiusz Zahorski the military police found a pro-independence blotter and accused him of helping an unknown fighter whom he hid in the attic. He avoided a court-martial, but in 1909 he was transferred to a reserve regiment in Novgorod. He used this time to improve his horse riding, which took him to the Olympic Games in Stockholm.

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On May 19, 1919, he was sent to America to collect horses. A short period of relative peace in the Eastern Borderlands of the Republic of Poland, colonel Sergiusz Zahorski also uses for sports. In April 1919, he was a member of the authorities of the Preparatory Committee for the Olympic Games, which were to be held in Antwerp from August 14 to September 12, 1920. And they did, but without Polish riders. Poland was fighting for its life against Russia.

On April 1, 1920, the Olympic Equestrian Group was established under the direction of lieutenant colonel Sergiusz Zahorski, deputy commander of the 1st Krechowiecki Uhlan Regiment. The management includes Major Karol Rómmel and Lieutenant Tadeusz Daszewski. Selected horses and riders were transported from Grudziądz to Warsaw. The riders were: lieutenant colonel Sergiusz Zahorski, Captain Stefan Dembiński, Captain Marek Mysłakowski, Lieutenant Bolesław Peretiatkowicz, Józef Trenkwald, Ignacy Sołtan, Trzasko-Jarzyński, Leśniewski, Adam Królikiewicz, Przewłocki, Adam Sokołowski, Ludwik Szwejcer, second lieutenants: Aleksander Bieliński, Stanisław Bukraba, Ryszard Bojankiewicz.

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Commander of the 1st Uhlan Regiment until the end of the war in 1920. From 1922 to 1923, deputy commander of the 16th Uhlan Regiment. In recognition of his achievements and knowledge, he goes to a training course at the Military Academy. Hard work in the army allows him to ride horses every day. In terms of riding technique, he was a supporter, together with Major Karol Rómmel, of natural cavalry fought by Polish officers serving in the former Austrian army, trained at the Militär Reit Lehrer Institut in Vienna.

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Colonel Sergiusz Zahorski, as an Olympian in 1912 in Stockholm (together with Karol Rómmel), in the colors of Russia. He dreamed of becoming a Polish Olympian. It is to his credit that two Olympic groups were created preparing for the Games in Paris in 1924. One was in Grudziądz at the Central Cavalry School, and the other in Warsaw near Łazienki, based on the 1st Light Cavalry Regiment. In Warsaw, Colonel Zahorski rode mainly on Zorza.

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In 1926, colonel Sergiusz Zahorski accomplished a great feat - he led to the creation of the Temporary Committee for International Horse Competitions, which were organized until 1939 in Warsaw, in Łazienki, under the name of the Society of International and National Horse Competitions in Poland. Thanks was launched in the same year Sergiusz Zahorski preparatory work for the construction of a beautiful equestrian stadium in Łazienki. After the winter break, the work gained momentum and on May 27, 1927, the horses could start racing. Colonel Sergiusz Zahorski was from June 20, 1926 to September 21, 1928, the head of the Military Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Poland, Professor Ignacy Mościcki. Thanks to this position, he was able to provide invaluable service to Polish horse riding.

(...)

Author: Witold Duński
Source: "Zahorski Sergiusz" (2012) - Witold Duński

Entry updated: 02.05.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX


Sergiusz Zahorski died on June 4, 1962 at the age of 76. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery in London


1st Regiment of Light Cavalry of Józef Piłsudski

(mp. Warsaw, amaranth border).

The regiment referred to the tradition of the 1st Light Horse Regiment of the Polish Guard of Emperor Napoleon I and the 1st Uhlan Regiment of the Polish Legions "Belina". It was recreated in November 1918 by officers of the former 1st Light Horse Regiment of the Polish Legions, headed by Capt. Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer. From 1921, the regiment was stationed in Warsaw near Belweder. It was said to be one of the elite cavalry regiments of the interwar period. It was popularly called the "National Guard", although it never officially received this name.

Rejoice, brave cavalryman,
You have protection at Belweder.

The cavalrymen shake their heads,
They want to be the National Guard.

They shake their asses, they shake their heads,
They want to be the National Guard.

They want to have guardsman manners.
Be Be ery, cavalry.

Always proud of his boss,
This is Piłsudski's cavalryman.

The cavalryman takes the upper hand,
Under the patronage of the Belweder Palace.

In the Belweder Palace, in the quarters
Sleep, brother cavalryman.

And remember, cavalryman,
That you are on guard at Belweder.

From the parade and the celebration,
For the protection of the President.

They are sitting like this in Warsaw
With a glass and a coffee.

The whole bunch are suckers
In the First Cavalry Regiment.

More gentlemen than suckers,
This is the first cavalry.

Some gentlemen and painters,
This is the first horse regiment.

From aides and doctors
Warsaw has a regiment of brats.

Source: Żurawiejki (1995) – Stanisław Radomyski


Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

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"Hippodrome in Łazienki Królewskie" (2023) - Kamil Potrzuski

"Zahorski Sergiusz" (2012) - Witold Duński

"History of horse riding, part VII” (1990) – Witold Domański

"Establishment of the first major equestrian associations and the construction of a stadium in Łazienki" (1981) - Witold Pruski

"50th anniversary of the opening of the equestrian stadium in Łazienki" (1977) - Witold Pruski

"To Mr. Captain Stanisław Olszowski, the Organizing Committee of the International Horse Riding Competitions" (1927)

"Impressions from Pignerolo and Tor di Quinto" (1922) - Sergiusz Zahorski

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Honorary patron: Polish Equestrian Association

Polish Equestrian Association (PZJ), is the only official Polish equestrian organization recognized by the Polish Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee, which is also one of over 140 national equestrian organizations associated with the FEI – International Federation for Equestrian Sports [www.pzj.pl].



Rider, trainer, breeder, director. Nowielice SK. Silver medal of the Olympic Games Moscow 1980 (Champagne), silver medal of the Polish Jumping Championships 1977, Drzonków (Zygzak), bronze medal of the Polish Eventing Championships, Biały Bór 1977 (Tropik).

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After graduating from high school at the Bolesław the Brave Secondary School in Gryfice, rider Janusz Bobik began studies at the Agricultural University of Szczecin.

He trained horses all the time, competed, won medals in the Polish Championships and a silver medal in the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. He was an all-around rider, in Show Jumping and in the All-Round Riding Horse Competition.

Because he was a good rider, he was invited to ride horses in England and Finland. In 1977, David Broome, the world champion, invited him to England. For this purpose, he used his six-month student internship. He also rode with Barbara Hammond.

He trained young horses and took part in various competitions. He was the only Pole who took part in Badminton, the horse Wimbledon. During his stay in England, he collected material used in his master's thesis, in which he compared the training of horses in the Comprehensive Riding Horse Competition in England and Poland.

He himself competed on four horses in one day. Until noon on two and in the afternoon, at another event, a hundred kilometers in another place, also on two. There he also wondered where people had enough money to participate in and watch competitions. In England, the stands were full of spectators, in Poland it was terrifyingly empty. A huge difference in the culture of life and being. Same in Finland. He was there twice, in winter and in summer.

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In 1979, he completed a professional internship after graduation at the Nowielice Stud Farm. He started working there as a zootechnician, breeder, head breeder, deputy director of his father, and from 1998, president of the Management Board of the Nowielice Stud Farm, which was a sole-shareholder company of the State Treasury. Over the years, he has been riding horses, taking part in competitions, in the Polish Championships, European Championships, in the CSIO Grand Prix in Aachen in 1983, and with his horse Champagne, he takes thirteenth place. During these years, he was also a coach at the Dragon club and took on the duties of coach of the national team. Before the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, he undertook the preparation of competitors in the Comprehensive Riding Horse Competition. These were difficult preparations. Average horses, no money. After training together in Biały Bór, they went to Barcelona: Piotr Piasecki on Igrek, Jacek Krukowski on Ibis, Bogusław Jarecki on Fanta, Arkadiusz Bachur on Chutor, Rafał Choynowski on Dresden. They took ninth place out of 26 teams.

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Author: Witold Duński
Source: "Janusz Bobik" (2012) - Witold Duński

Entry updated: 02.05.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX



Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:

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"Janusz Bobik" (2012) - Witold Duński

"40 years of horse breeding at PSK Nowielice" (1989) - R. Pikuła, J. Bobik

"XXII Olympic Games Moscow" (1980) - Eryk Brabec

Olympic Games Moscow 1980 – Nations Cup and Grand Prix [RU]| MOVIE


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