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Sigmund Augustus was a great admirer of female charms.No wonder he was not impressed with his wife Elizabeth, a woman suffering from epilepsy, and often sought solace in other women's arms. The most famous of his mistresses was Barbara Radziwill, a Lithuanian woman from aristocratic family, who returned his affection. It was for her that Sigmund Augustus brought to Poland a special kind of swans.

 

 

Zygmunt II August by Jan Matejko

 

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In Old Poland love magic (though repressed by the church) was very popular either among nobility, peasants and citizens and even at the royal court.

 

Love's Passing by Evelyn de Morgan

 

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