Family Souvenir – Wala Maszkowska – A poem in memory of the tragically deceased Żwirko i Wigura pilots, 1932 – author: 16-year-old Wala Maszkowska (now Mioduszewska)
From our family album:
Walentyna Mioduszewska, née Maszkowska, and her youthful (she was 18 years old at the time) poem from 1932, printed in Republika (18/09/1932) in memory of the tragically deceased famous Polish record-breaking pilots Żwirko and Wigury.
What beautiful and sublime experiences our parents had (and still have).
Maria Mioduszewska-Wysocka and Anna Mioduszewska-Żuchowicz
Footnote:
In the old noble family of Walentyna Maszkowska, among others –
Jan Kanty Maszkowski (painter), Karol Maszkowski (Rector of the Lviv Polytechnic), Rafał Maszkowski (Conductor), Marceli Maszkowski (painter):
Jan Kanty Ignacy Maszkowski (born October 16, 1794 in Chorostków , died October 20, 1865 in Barszczowice [1] ) – Polish painter .
From 1815 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the supervision of Heinrich Füger and Jan Baptist Lampi .
He painted portraits, historical paintings, and genre scenes. He ran a painting school in Lviv , which educated, among others, Juliusz Kossak , Artur Grottger , Henryk Rodakowski , and Stanisław Tarnowski . [2] He was the father of Karol , the rector of the Lviv Polytechnic University , Rafał , a conductor famous in Europe, and Marceli , a Lviv painter who died young.
Source of information:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Maszkowski
