Otwarcie pomnika Adama Mickiewicza

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Consecration of the monument to Adam Mickiewicz in Warsaw, 24.12.1898 The photos Ian Mechkovskiy.Ootkrytie held in the 100th anniversary of his birth. The initiator of the construction of the monument was Henryk Sienkiewicz. Thanks to the donations by July 1897 235,734 rubles were collected for its construction. Russian tsarist authorities agreed to his postroyku.Figura Mickiewicz, cast in bronze in the workshop Lippi in Italy in the city of Pistoia. The figure of the poet was created by Polish sculptor Tsiprianom Godebskim. Manufacturing pedestal for the sculpture involved - Józef Pius Dzekonsky and Vladislav Marconi, as the material of Italian granite was chosen for his "Photographic Bulletin" 1889, nº11, with.. 264: "Obituary. 1/13 October 1889 in Warsaw, died Ivan Kazimirovich Mechkovskaya, one of the best professional photographers in Russia".Photography, nobleman, Jan Mechkovskaya (1830 - 1/13 October 1889), Commander of the Order of St.