Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka
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Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka was active in the Polish resistance against Nazi occupiers in World War II and was murdered in the Palmiry massacre.
Polish women being led through the Palmiry forest for mass execution by Germans.
The grave stone commemorating Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka and her sister Janina at the family tomb in Lusowo cemetery.
Intelligentsia
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The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies,
"Evening Company" by Vladimir Makovsky (1897). Three generations of Russian intelligentsia discuss current issues.
In Russia, the writer Pyotr Boborykin defined the intelligentsia as both the managers of a society, and as the creators of society's high culture.
The surgeon Ludwik Rydygier and his assistants. Painting by Leon Wyczółkowski
Vissarion Belinsky