Russów - Russów

Russ - is one of the most attractive places in Kalisz county. The village is located in Żelazków commune and is located approximately 7 km north of Kalisz.

Worth seeing

  • Maria Dąbrowska Manor - Branch of the Regional Museum of the Kalisz Region - A brick manor from the mid-nineteenth century, after the destruction of World War II, was rebuilt in a completely different architectural shape and with a different - compared to the original - layout of the rooms. Inside there is a museum exhibition of a biographical nature Maria Dąbrowska, including: Szumskłch's living room (the writer's parents), a bedroom, the office of Józef Szumski - administrator of the estate, and the court kitchen (all rooms on the ground floor) and Maria Dąbrowska's room in the attic. The second part of the attic, passageways and the hall are decorated in an artistic and literary atmosphere. In the rooms there are stylish furniture, paintings, photographs and knick-knacks from the period as well as authentic souvenirs of the writer.
  • Manor park - comes from the mid-nineteenth century and has an area of ​​about 4 hectares. There are ponds, including one with an island. Currently, it is significantly transformed, and it houses an ethnographic exhibition of the old wooden folk architecture of the Kalisz Region. It includes the following facilities:

1. A three-building homestead in Kalisz with an arcaded narrow-front cottage from 1870, a barn from the second half of the 19th century and a cowshed from the end of the 19th century. The wall structure of these buildings is mixed (log-post with log corners), and their hip roofs (except for the cowshed) are thatched. The interiors of the buildings are equipped with exhibits showing the conditions and way of life of a middle-class peasant family living at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

2. Granary, the so-called solek, moved here from the Witczak farm in Seleców in Russów, dating from the second half of the 18th century with a pillarless arcade, log walls and corners for an overlay and an abutment

3. Worker's cottage from the mid-19th century with whitewashed, log walls

4. A manor granary built in 1800, wide front, with pole arcades, log roof, shingled (during renovation works after it was moved to Russów from Kuźnica Grabowska).


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