Villa Waleria

Villa Waleria placed on 22 Spacerowa Street in Milanówek. Rufin Morozowicz, a well-known actor in Warsaw, built in 1910 for his wife Waleria. The residence was known for its "open doors", welcoming numerous magnificent artists and people of culture through the years. After the first owners' death, the villa was inherited by their daughter Maria Morozowicz-Szczepkowska (1885-1968) who was a faithful Chopin's music lover. She wrote three plays and one movie script about the compositor. Her husband, Jan Szczepkowski, was a striking polish artist of the interwar period. He won a Grand Prix prize for his Chapel of Nativity on the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry in 1925. He was also the one that took a death-mask of Marshal Józef Piłsudki and won the contest for the project of Marshal's sarcophagus, which was supposed to be exposed in Wawel.