Helena Mniszek

[3] She spent her formative years travelling, playing the piano and declaiming poems.

In 1903, after her husband's death, she moved back to Sabnie, where she fell in love with Adolf Lortsch who became an inspiration for a novel called "Panicz" in 1912.

The novel itself has been dramatised 4 different times by 4 different directors : Edward Puchalski, Juliusz Gardan, Jerzy Hoffman and Wojciech Rawecki together with Krzysztof Lang.

She set up a school for young girls and a theatre group for the village children and was always willing to help the ones in need.

She described love affairs among the upper crust and she emphasised a stereotype about the glamorous lifestyles of the people she portrayed.