Do you know why Stanisław August was the most frequently kidnapped king of Poland? Which Polish queen was crowned when she was only ten years old? Why was Fryderyk Chopin called a "child prodigy" and can history grow on a tree? You will learn all this and much, much more in this book!

The word "history" sounds very serious, it usually seems to us to be something distant that does not entirely concern us. But is it really so? After all, in a sense, what we experienced YESTERDAY, and even the past hour, has already become history. Our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, people we know well and are close to us, survived the Second World War, and some even the first. Their drawers are full of black and white photos, which grandmothers sometimes take out while having tea and talk with emotion about old stories. In such photos you can see your own parents in baby strollers, great aunts on baby walkers, and even a toothless grandfather who has lost almost all his baby teeth.

In fact, history, including what we learn from school textbooks, is created by people - like you - and their families. And the intertwined common fates of many, many people and their families is the history that is being explored.

In this book you will find stories about families that have inhabited Polish lands from the 10th century AD to the present day and their very branched family trees. Here you will find the families of kings, princes, great leaders, inventors, scientists and artists, including: Bolesław the Brave, Zawisza the Black, Jadwiga of Anjou, Anna Jagiellon, Fryderyk Chopin and Maria Skłodowska-Curie, as well as lots of interesting facts about them, their times and places. in which they lived.

Or maybe you will draw your own family tree?