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Detail of a painting by Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski

Wolves (In February in Lithuania), 1890, oil on canvas, 74.5 x 100 cm, National Museum, Poznań

Radio programmes

The Wierusz-Kowalski Clans and Families of Mazovia: Selected Family Stories

https://www.rdc.pl/podcast/rody-i-rodziny-mazowsza_ggLWmcihBmWFwcvhfAos?episode=fZKujeH01fnIt24GS9Tc&active_page=3

During both Wierusz-Kowalski family reunions, members of various branches and lineages of the family shared stories about their loved ones. It is the task of family genealogists to bring all these together …

The Clans and Families of Mazovia: The Second Wierusz-Kowalski Family Reunion

https://rdc.pl/podcast/rody-i-rodziny-mazowsza_gglwmcihbmwfwcvhfaos?episode=02fha7gN6bC6EdfM8Tlx

In 2019, the first reunion (then known as a gathering) of the Wierusz-Kowalski family took place at the Regional Museum in Suwałki. It was organised by Eliza Ptaszyńska, curator of the aforementioned museum, …

The descendants of the painter Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski visited Suwałki

https://www.radio.bialystok.pl/podrozepokulturze/index/id/243337

They had the opportunity to get to know one another better, and for many, it was in Suwałki that they met members of their family for the very first time. Descendants of the famous painter Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski travelled to his hometown.

A manuscript from the January Uprising. An interview with Adam Malicki (the editor of Edmund Wierusz-Kowalski’s memoirs)

https://jedynka.polskieradio.pl/artykul/2214900,R%C4%99kopis-z-powstania-styczniowego

In today’s ‘Eureka’, we present the story of the lost manuscript of the memoirs of Edmund Wierusz-Kowalski, a participant in the January Uprising. The subject of today’s programme came from the Ojsławice estate near Częstochowa. After completing his studies in Kielce, he became involved with the nationalist movement in Warsaw. He was 23 years old at the time of the January Uprising. He fought in the cavalry, in Zygmunt Chmieleński’s unit. Captured by the Russians, he was deported to Siberia…