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Branicki Palace

Is a historical edifice in Bialystok, Poland.It was developed on the site of an earlier building in the first half of the 18th century by Jan Klemens Branicki, a wealthy Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth hetman, into a residence suitable for a man whose ambition was to become king of Poland.The palace complex with gardens, pavillons, sculptures, outbuildings and other structures and the city with churches, city hall and monastery, all built almost at the same time according to French models was the reason why the city was known in the 18th century as Versailles of Podlaskie.The Palace was built for Count Jan Klemens Branicki, Great Crown Hetman and patron of art and science, raised in the French milieu of the Polish aristocracy, who transformed a previous house (by Tylman Gamerski) into the suitably magnificent residence of a great Polish noble, a rival to Wilanow, making a start in 1726.He also laid out the central part of the town of Bialystok, not a large place in the 18th century, with its triangular market.

Bialystok Puppet Theater

Established in 1953, is one of the oldest Polish puppet theaters.The facility is located at Kalinowskiego 1 in Bialystok.The repertoire includes performances for both children and puppet adaptations of world literature for adults.Because of the high artistic level of productions, the theater has been recognized as one of the best puppetry arts centers in Poland.The Aleksandra Wegierki Drama Theatre. Housed in a building designed by Jarosław Girina, built in the years 1933–1938.

Historical Museum in Bialystok

Is part of the Podlaskie Museum.The facility has a rich collection of archival materials and iconography illustrating the history of Bialystok and Podlasie, and a number of middle-class cultural relics, especially in the field of craft utility.There are also the Numismatic Cabinet of the collection of 16 000 coins, medals and securities.The museum is in possession of the only collections in the country memorabilia connected with the Tatar settlement on the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian region.

Army Museum in Bialystok

Was established in September 1968 as a branch of the Podlaskie Museum to house the research and collections of many people connected with military history of north-eastern Poland.

Polish Orthodox Church

Is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches in full communion.The church was established in 1924, to accommodate Orthodox Christians of Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian descent in the eastern part of the country, when Poland regained its independence after the First World War.The establishment of the church was undertaken after the Treaty of Riga left a large amount of territory previously under the control of the Russian Empire, as part of the Second Polish Republic.Eastern Orthodoxy was widespread in the Belarusian Western Belarus regions and the Ukrainian Volhynia.

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