Feast-Day of the Polish Cavalry, 1934. Creator: Wojciech Kossak. # 3071993

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Feast-Day of the Polish Cavalry, 1934. The 8th Uhlan Regiment named after Prince Józef Poniatowski passes in front of Marshal Pilsudski and the honorary tribune with a banner post, led by Lieutenant Colonel Kazimierz Mastalerz. Attending the tribune of honor, President Ignacy Moscicki, Prime Minister Janusz Jedrzejewicz, Field Bishop Józef Gawlina, Mayor of Krakow Mieczyslaw Kalicki, and Wladyslaw Belina-Prazmowski, the voivode of Lviv. Below, on the lower stand, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski assisted by Assistant Professor Colonel Witold Wartha (in the uniform of the Podhale Riflemen). On the right side of the grandstand, Major General Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer is seated on a horse.

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Creator

Wojciech Kossak, attributed to: Polish: Artist, painter

Subject

Ignacy Moscicki: Polish: politician, president, chemist
Janusz Jedrzejewicz: Polish: politician, Prime Minister, educator
Jozef Gawlina: Polish: field bishop, archbishop, priest, divisional general in the Polish Armed Forces
Mieczyslaw Kaplicki: Polish: Mayor of Krakow, lieutenant colonel of the Polish Army, dermatologist
Wladyslaw Belina-Prazmowski: Polish: cavalryman, colonel, politician, voivode of Lviv
Jozef Pilsudski: Polish: General, politician, president
Witold Wartha: Polish: Colonel of the Polish Army
Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer: Polish: major general of the Polish Army, soldier of the Polish Legions
Kazimierz Mastalerz: Polish: military commander of the 18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment