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Spala, the Royal Residence (Spala, carska rezydencja). Svetlana Chestnykh, Karen L. Kettering, Michal Sloniewski. A group of historians from three countries joined forces to find and save traces of an almost unknown world of Imperial Russian hunting and its Royal residence at Spala under Russian rule. Fragments only remain of the hunting palace in Spała, visited by Tsar Alexander III and his son, Tsar Nicholas II, and later the favorite forest residence of President Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946), president of Poland from 1926 through 1939 (when Germany invaded on Sept. 1, 1939, the day which marked the beginning of World War II).
Poland: Wydawnictwo CEL Konstancin-Jeziorna, 2011. Quarto hardcover, pictorial boards. 144 pages. 131 archival photographs, never-published documents, and a wealth of fascinating facts. Includes plans of Spała made in its heyday, as well as examples of gifts that the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty gave to his subjects. Text in English, Russian and Polish.
