Poronin
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Poronin [pɔˈrɔnin], is a village in southern Poland; from 1999 it formed part of Tatra County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998).[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Zakopane and 80 km (50 mi) south of the regional capital Kraków.
Poronin sits on the confluence of rivers Zakopianka and Poroniec , which gives rise to the river Biały Dunajec.
In the summers of 1913 and 1914 Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a holiday home in nearby Biały Dunajec and often stayed in a Poronin inn. The area formed part of Austria-Hungary at that time (as a result of the Partitions of Poland), and when World War I broke out in mid-1914 the Austrian authorities arrested Lenin on suspicion of spying for Russia (August 1914), but deported him to Switzerland soon after (September 1914).[2][3]
During 1947-1990 there used to be a Lenin Museum in Poronin and a statue of Lenin. The statue was transferred to the Socialist Realism Art Gallery (Polish: Galeria Sztuki Socrealizmu, also known as the "Museum of Socialist Realism") in the Kozłówka Palace complex in the Lublin Voivodeship.
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ISBN 9781134624713.
On 7 August their holiday home in Poronin, near Zakopane, was raided by Austrian police. [...] The following day, Lenin was arrested. Through the good offices of the Austrian Social-Democratic leader, Victor Adler, he was released and Lenin and Krupskaya were able to leave, via Vienna, for neutral Switzerland where they arrived on 5 September.
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ISBN 9781608463664. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
Lenin had moved to Krakow, in Austrian Poland, in 1912. After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was deported to Switzerland.