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The most dangerous epidemic of cholera hit Europe in 1831-1838. It arrived to Polish lands during the November Uprising of 1830/1831 due to the decimated disease of the Russian army (the doctors at the time considered it essentially an epidemic, but not contagious) disease. In June 1831, among others near Vitebsk – the commander-in-chief of the Polish forces fleeing from the insurgents and the military governor of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duke Konstanty Pawłowicz, and in Kleszew near Pułtusk – the imperial marshal Ivan I. Dybicz suppressing the uprising.

He draws almost without a break, day and often at night – on everything he can. Tara von Neudorf has extraordinary talent. He discovered it by accident in military service, when extremely bored, he painted Fujiyama for his commander.

On the inter-war map of the Czechoslovak Republic, Košice occupy a special place. Located in the Slovak part of the newly created state, a bit off the beaten track and away from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Prague, the city became the birthplace of the phenomenon known as the Košice moderna. The Košice of the 1920s and the early 1930s was a kind of informal artistic “colony” bringing together Slovak, Czech and Hungarian artists. Those who were permanently connected with the city, and those who spent several years or even months there.

When I first arrived in Oslo a few years ago, it was just after five in the morning. I got off at the Oslo Sentralstasjon station with a firm determination that first – despite the very early hour – I must see the National Opera and Ballet building, which I have heard and read so much about. Awarded in 2009 with the prestigious Mies van der Rohe award, it quickly made Snøhett’s architectural studio and Norwegian architecture famous.

The interwar period was associated with the worship of the city. Skyscrapers, cars, factories and rushing modernity rising up – this picture emerges most often. The development of the village at this time is rare. However, modernization did not bypass the countryside. An interesting example is the small village of Lisków near Kalisz. In the theater of the successes of the Second Polish Republic, it had the spectacular role of a model modernist village.

Can music and painting have something in common? Can musical values ​​be expressed through artistic means? An attempt to combine these two elements was made by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, one of the most important Lithuanian artists of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

At the turn of the century, Budapest became an important industrial center. In the eleventh volume of Britanniki, the city was described as “one of the most natural capitals” of the continent, which slowly began to perform the functions of both the national capital and the cosmopolitan metropolis with almost six hundred cafes and twenty-two daily newspaper titles!

Sport and health, recreation and leisure are popular slogans of the interwar period expressing optimism and faith in building a new tomorrow. Architecture became a type of spatial response to widely expressed postulates and a tool of change.

“The outfit is complemented by a red fez on the head, which is never taken off in public and before anyone. Only at home, because of the heat, the Turk sometimes has his head uncovered, but let a stranger come in, soon he enters the fez, so as not to violate the requirements of the convention, and maybe also of religion. Many of ours wear a fez and do not take it off, as is customary, even in a church, “wrote the Polish emigrant Władysław Dunin, who lived in the Ottoman Empire in the 1870s (Romania (Bosporus, Balkan and Danube). 1855-1878. Sketch – social against the background of memories wrote Władysław Dunin, Lviv 1887, pp. 102-103).

“- Here,” a polite guide explains, “we grow plague, here we have diphtheria again, and here cholera. Maybe we can go to the plague? …