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Description Throne of Stanisław Augustus Poniatowski displayed in the Kremlin, Moscow. In the 1920s the Soviet Union government returned it to Poland, yet it was deliberately destroyed by the Germans during the World War II (the eagles were taken as a souvenir by German officers).[1][2]
Date 19th century
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source Lileyko Jerzy, Zamek Królewski w Warszawie, Warsaw 1980, ISBN 830100603X
Author unknown scanned by Polaco77
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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.
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References

  1. The last king of Poland was Stanisław August Poniatowski. His royal throne, or mainly its backrest, was decorated with eagles beautifully embroidered in gold and silver, symbolizing Poland. When the Germans seized Warsaw in World War II, the governor of German-occupied Poland ordered the eagles taken down and presented to German officers as a souvenir. English Danuta Szmit-Zawierucha (20s
    date QS:P,+20-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
    eptember 2006). Following in the Footsteps of Kings. www.warsawvoice.pl. Retrieved on 2009-04-14.
  2. polski Aleksander Gieysztor (1972) Zamek Królewski w Warszawie (Royal Castle in Warsaw), Warsaw: Biuletyn Historii Sztuki i Kultury, Year IX, no. 1-2

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