Belweder Palace

This guide to Belweder Palace in Warsaw opens at two in the morning on November 29, 1830, as cadets storm the grounds hunting Grand Duke Constantine, the Russian tsar's brother, asleep inside. You'll hear what happened to the Russian general caught in the confusion, and how the palace's story continues from a royal porcelain works into the residence of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the man who returned Poland to the map after a century of partition. Listen for how later occupants, from German officers to communist leaders, each claimed these same rooms in turn.