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| Orders and inquiries are welcomed through e-mail or by phone during regular business hours Monday through Saturday. Many items are to be custom made, so first give us an e-mail and then we can set up a time for a phone conversation if necessary to hammer out the exact details of your order. We accept personel checks or money orders and now We except Pay-pal and all major credit cards through Pay pal, contact me for details and an E-Invoice. Add 4% for Pay pal services. A 50 % deposit is due apon request for all custom arms and armor orders. Horse bows, boots, clothing, custom orders will require payment in full up front. Serdecznie Dziekuje Eryk Polish Hussar Supply Plus |
| Contact Us and Husaria Tour of Poland August 12-24, 2008 |
| Polish Hussar Supply Plus Eric Jadaszewski 42 Brush Brook Rd Dublin, NH 03444 USA 603-563-8054 |
Visit our reenactment group The Czarniecki Division. groups.yahoo.com/group/czarnieckiego/ Started in 2002, we are the largest Polish reenactment group in the United States with approx 20 outfitted members in the New England region alone. If you want to start an East European reenactment group in you area, we'll be glad to help! |
| HUSARIA TOUR TO POLAND An adventure into Poland’s rich history, culture, castles and the famous ‘Winged Hussar Knights’. August 13 – august 24, 2008 All inclusive land costs $1995.00 per person (Airfare not included) Tour escort; Eryk Jadaszewski, Historical guide; Radoslaw Sikora We will be participating in Poland's largest 17th century Reenactment - Vivat Vasa at Gniew Castle Aug. 16 and 17th 2008. You don't have to be a seasoned reenactor or living historian to participate, contact me and we'll help get you started and possibly even some training with one of several 17th cen. Easetrn European reenactment groups around the country. |
| Here's the itinerary for the tour Aug 13/Wed – GDANSK. Arrive, transfer to hotel, Dinner, meet the group. Aug 14/Thu – GDANSK, Sopot, Gdynia. Sightseeing in this historic Gothic city and sea port . Leave for malbork castle that evening. Aug 15/Fri – Malbork/GNIEW. Depart for Gniew. En route visit Malbork Castle the largest Gothic castle in Europe built in 1247 by the Tuetonic knights and taken by the Poles in 1466. See picture above. Gniew, Golub castle Aug 16/Sat., Aug 17/Sun. – GNIEW castle /’Vivat Vasa’ event. Poland’s Largest and best 17th cen. Reenactment features Polish winged hussars cavalry, pancerni cossacks, cannons and swedish infantry opponents. Ask about details to be apart of the reenactment. live the life of a Polish knight or noblewoman on the site of a battle in which the Poles retook the city from the Swedes in 1627. Aug 18//Mon – GNIEW/Golub/WARSAW. Depart for Warsaw, En route stop in Golub-Dobrzyn Castle. Built in the 13th cen. It was later destroyed in the Bloody deluge by the Swedes in 1655, fully restored after 1945. Aug 19/Tue – WARSAW. Tour the Royal Castle, Old Town, King Zygmunt’s Column. Afternoon- Polish Army Museum, see hussar armor collection. Aug 20/Wed – WARSAW- visit Wilanow, Palace of King jan III Sobieski . Visit the new ‘Warsaw Uprising Museum’. Great books stores in Warsaw! Aug 21/Thu – WARSAW/CZESTOCHOWA. Visit the Shrine of Czestochowa and the Arsenal Museum. site of the famous battle of jasna Gora in 1655. Nice collection of 17th cen. arms and armors. One of the most historical battlefields and religious sites in all of Poland. Evening in Krakow. Aug 22/Fri – KRAKOW. Wawel castle and Czartoryski Museum, both have extensive collections of hussar arms and armor. Aug 23/ Sat.– KRAKOW –Poland’s most beautiful and historic city. free time for shopping and sightseeing, optional trip to Wieliczka Salt mine. Farewell dinner. Aug 24/Sun – KRAKOW. Fly back to USA. HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS are confirmed in following hotels: Aug. 13/14 - GDANSK - Wolne Miasto (city center) Aug. 14/15 – MALBORK - Hotel Zamkowy Aug. 15/17 - complimentary accommodations at the Zamek Gniew Aug. 17/18 - GNIEW - Palac Marysienki Aug. 18/21 - WARSAW - Novotel Centrum Aug. 22/23 - KRAKOW – Classic (city center) Tour Cost Includes: *Accomondations in first class hotels (except Gniew castle reenactment) *Two meals daily included: breakfast, lunch or dinner *Transportation between cities in air conditioned motor coach. *Comprehensive sightseeing excursions with local guides. *All service charges, entrance fees and taxes *Services of an English and Polish speaking escort *Historically guide will be author and historian Radek Sikora Radosław Sikora, born in 1975, a graduate of the Mechanical and Power Engineering ,Faculty, University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland. He is an amateur historian, working with a number of magazines concerning military and historical issues. His first book, 'Fenomen husarii' ('The Phenomenon of Polish Winged Hussars') was published in 2003. Radek has also written these books: – 'Lubieszów 17 IV 1577' ('The battle of Lubieszów 17 IV 1577', published in 2005), – 'Wojskowość polska w dobie wojny polsko-szwedzkiej 1626-1629. Kryzys mocarstwa.' ('Polish military power at the time of the Polish-Swedish war of 1626-1629. Crisis of the empire', published in 2005) – 'Na skrzydłach husarii' ('On the wings of Husaria', it will be published in 2008) Sikora's books are positively reviewed and highly valued by the historians of Old Polish military history (professor Robert I. Frost, professor Mirosław Nagielski, professor Henryk Wisner etc.). Currently Radek is working with producers of the largest Polish historical movie to be made 'Victoria', as technical expert on ‘husaria’ ( http://www.victoria-film.pl/english/index_eng.html ). The movie’s budget is $70 million and is a story about the rescue of Vienna 1683, where Polish winged hussars played a key role. Radosław Sikora's site: http://www.husaria.info.tm/ LAND TOUR COST (no flights): Based on minimum of 15 passengers the retail cost would be $1,995 per person. ***Those not participating in the Vivat Vasa event will need pay for accommodations the nights of the event, Pat Tours will arrange this and provide prices for those nights if requested. Contact me about qualifying as a reenactor participate at the Vivat Vasa Event, it’s easy. Please contact Mary at PAT Tours at the address above for flight costs from your region. Note: plan to fly to Gdansk and depart from Krakow, this is a little more expensive but will allow for more sight seeing time. A $200.00 deposit is required and all costs can be paid with a major credit card. Below is a registration form and terms for The Husaria Tour of Poland 2008 August 12-24, 2008, please read the terms, fill it out and mail it back along with a deposit of $200.00. Make checks out to PAT Tours. If you’d like to use a credit card please call Pat Tours 1 800 388 0988. Thanks and hope to get to know you on the tour |
| Gniew castle, site of Poland's largest 17th cen. reenactment event Vivat Vasa. Stay 3 nights in this historic castle and the site of the original battle in 1627. |
Left, Polish hussar will soon
charge Swedish infantry and
cannons at Vivat Vasa.
Right, our historic guide Radek
Sikora in his Polish nobleman's
attire
charge Swedish infantry and
cannons at Vivat Vasa.
Right, our historic guide Radek
Sikora in his Polish nobleman's
attire
