Peowiak Monument

The monument in honor of the soldiers of the Polish Military Organization who died between 1914 and 1921 is the work of sculptor Edward Wittig.

The monument depicts a dying naked warrior with his head falling backward, holding a short sword in his left hand. The original inspiration for this sculpture was a smaller figure called the "Dying Hero," which was a fragment of the sculpture "Fight" from Lieutenant Jan Zdanowicz-Opieliński's tomb in Section 195 of the Warsaw Powązki Cemetery, belonging to the Polish Military Organization.

The monument was unveiled on November 10, 1933. It stood in the place where in 1918 Józef Piłsudski received a parade of the Polish Military Organization units from the balcony of the Kronenberg Palace.

The monument survived the military actions in September 1939, but in 1940, it was removed by the German occupying authorities.

After the war, the slightly damaged granite pedestal of the monument was found on the grounds of the Królikarnia Palace in Mokotów. Sculptors Marek Moderau and Zbigniew Mikielewicz reconstructed the sculpture based on fragments of a plaster model stored in the Warsaw National Museum and photographs. The reconstructed monument was solemnly unveiled on November 10, 1999.