Kraszewski Museum
Swiss-style villa where an exiled Polish novelist lived, now a German-Polish literary museum.
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This guide to the Kraszewski Museum in Dresden follows Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, the Polish novelist who fled Warsaw in eighteen sixty-three and spent some twenty years in exile beside the Elbe. It starts with a pile of books nobody can quite tally, then turns to the small Swiss-style villa he bought, the garden he stocked with seeds from his childhood home, and the émigré community he helped. Best heard at the garden gate, looking at the house.
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