Presidential Palace, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Palace was erected in the 1640s by the Great Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski and his son Aleksander, according to a design of Constantino Tencalla – a court architect of King Władysław IV. Only a few years after the palace was erected it became the property of the Lubomirski family and since 1674, for almost 150 years it was in the hands of the Radziwiłł family of the Nieświeska branch. Between 1768 and 1778 it was adapted to serve as a theater, where King Stanisław August Poniatowski had his box.
The palace played a significant role during the Great Sejm session; the first political party – the Assembly of Friends of the Government Act of 3rd May was in session there between 1791 and 1792. In 1818 it was purchased by the government of the Congress Kingdom and adapted to be the seat of the Governor. Then General Józef Zajączek started to live there.
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