Commemoration of Tadeusz Kościuszko

As a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States, Kościuszko has given his name to many places and monuments around the world.

A replica of the Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko monument in Washington, D.C. by Antoni Popiel was erected in 2010 in Warsaw, Poland.

This became the first monument to Kościuszko in the country, and it was financed and produced through a crowdfunding campaign organized by a journalist Gleb Labadzenka (Hlieb Labadzienka).

The campaign received financing from over 700 private contributors, and a monument design by Henik Lojka won the competition.

In front of the building is a bust of Kościuszko, which was built in 1932 by Bal'bina Vidatskaja-Svitič and was set up in 1988 in Kobrin, the next largest city.

In 1951 Mrs. Maria Zamora established the first classroom and now its one of the oldest and largest Polish language schools in the United States.

There is also a road named for him in Vezia (canton Ticino, near Lugano), where his embalmed heart rested for some decades following his death, Kościuszko having in his will left it to Emilia Morosini, née Zeltner-Peri.

His heart was later moved to the Polish Museum in Rapperswil through the engagement of Arrigo Boito, composer and librettist to Giuseppe Verdi, both of whom were friends of the Morosini-Negroni family.

Polish explorer Count Paweł Edmund Strzelecki named the highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko.

There are also streets named for Kościuszko in Saint Petersburg, Russia; downtown Belgrade, Serbia (Ulica Tadeuša Košćuška); Budapest, Hungary (Kosciuszkó Tádé utca); and Vilnius, Lithuania (Kosciuškos gatvė).

[5] Kościuszko is mentioned in Lord Byron's poem Age of Bronze in the line "That sound that crashes in the tyrant's ear --- Kosciusko!".

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas included Kościuszko's portrait in Captain Nemo's study.