Strzyżawka

Strzyżawka is a locality splendidly situated on a hill, right where the mouth of a river named as the town, joins the Boh. According to 15th-century documents, kept before the 1st World War in the collections of the manor house, the description of the ancient settlement “Striżawka”, among other issues also named some Dmytro Strizhavskiy…

Pietniczany

Pietniczany

Pietniczany are located by the mouth of the Winnica River to the Boh, on the so-called “Kuczman Trail” (very close to the town of Winnica). The locality was first mentioned in the description of the Winnica castle from 1543, made by diak Lev Pateyovitch Tishkovitch. Its fragment: “…W Petnyczanach a w Demydiwciach, w imieniach Miśka…

Hrycow

Hrycow

Download: Roman Aftanazy about Hrycow (PDF) The town of Hryców by the Chomor river, a tributary to Słucza, used to be part of the allodial properties of the Ostrogski princes. However, in 1605 the properties were already held by prince Janusz Zbaraski. The were transferred from his heirs to the Lubomirski family. Stanisław Lubomirski, Lord…

Włodzimierz Grocholski (1936-2014)

Born on December 10, 1936 in Puchaly, Poland, to Adam Remigiusz Grocholski and Barbara Swiatopelk-Czetwertynska, Wlodzimierz was the eighth of ten brothers and sisters. His family was categorically at odds with the Nazis and later with the Communists, the two occupying aggressors in Poland during the 20th century. Wlodzimierz began working in film production, his…

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