Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz
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Zbigniew Dymitr Dunin-Wasowicz, was a Polish military leader, Rittmeister of Polish Legions in World War I.
Zbigniew Dunin Wasowicz
Dunin-Wasowicz, possibly at Rokitna.
Żurawiejka
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Żurawiejka was a short, two-line facetious couplet, written specifically for cavalry regiments of the Polish Army in the interwar period. It humorously and ironically presented the history of a given
Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz
…Russian invasion of this province. Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz was killed on June 13, 1915, in the Charge of Rokitna. He was commemorated in one of the first zurawiejkas, called “Song of Wasowicz’s Squadron”: “Our Wasowicz, a great guy, beat up the Moskals in Cucylowa. Second squadron distinguished itself, by shedding…
Mikhail Lermontov, the father of żurawiejka.
Part of żurawiejka of 18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment on shopping bag