Epitafium dla Gucina
Epitaph for Gucin

Summary/Abstract: Gucin, the former filial residence of Wilanów, situated in the southern part of Warsaw near the church of St. Catherine, was founded in 1818–1821 upon the initiative of Stanisław August Potocki, the then owner of the Wilanów estate and an outstanding representative of the Enlightenment in Poland. In 1821–1829, after the death of Stanisław, his wife Aleksandra created in the lower part of the estate a Grove–Monument, commemorating both her husband and his brother, Ignacy Potocki. The Romantic Grove was composed of a stone monument modelled on the Scipio sarcophagus, obelisks and memento stones. Friends of the two Potockis, including renowned professors, political activists and ministers of the Kingdom of Poland, planted numerous trees carrying symbolic messages. In the wake of the loss of state independence, the Grove in Gucin became devastated. The two surviving monuments were transferred to the Romantic part of the palace garden in Wilanów.

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