text comes from the book of Klaus Dąbrowski “Polish Masoni – 100 extraordinary characters”
Through his heart through a funeral,
Like his chest with bullets, let the capital see
Your faces, criminals—and let them greet you
A terrible cry of silence mournful street.
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Julian Tuwim, “The ceremony of president Narutovich’, 1922
Gabriel Narutovich (1865-1922) – From 1884 to 1886 he studied in St. Petersburg and 1886 to 1889 at the method University in Zurich, where he obtained the degree of engineer. During his studies in Switzerland, he collaborated with the emigration group “II Proletariat”. For subsequent years he lived in Switzerland (as a designer and builder, among others, hydroelectric plant), Italy and Spain. In 1907, he became prof. of Polytechnics in Zurich. During the First planet War, the Polish-American Committee on National Defence passed financial support to Poland through it. He became a associate of the General Committee for War Victims in Poland and the association “La Pologne et la guerre”. In 1920 he moved to Warsaw, assumed the position of Minister of Public Works. On 8 December 2022 he was elected the first president of the reborn Republic. The national camp, trying to make him as the main figure of the left, began a run of hatred against him, accusing him of belonging to the Masonry, atheism and besides gaining office through the voices of national minorities. On 16 December 1922, he was shot in the building of the Society of Incentives of Fine Arts in Warsaw by an endeciated artist Eligiusz Niewiedniski.
