So every season has its own beauty in Polonezkoy even though the birth of life here in this village that communes with nature was anything but easy.

WITH GENEROUS OTTOMAN SUPPORT
In fact, the seeds of this village were not planted in Istanbul. A treaty between Austria, Russia and Prussia in 1772 divided up Poland, which was wiped off the map for 123 years. But this annihilation of a whole country was not acceptable to the Ottoman Empire. Indeed, a rumor spread that an empty place was left for the Polish ambassador at a banquet given at the Sublime Porte in the expectation that he would return 'some day'. The 'uncrowned Polish king' Adam Jerzy Czartoryski maintained friendly relations with the Ottomans in exile. Then in 1831 the Poles staged an uprising for their freedom and suffered a crushing defeat.Tsarist Russia sent the men it had captured from its Polish lands to the most harrowing front of all, to fight against the Chechens in the Caucasus. Living under hardship conditions,