FAITH TADEUSH
Caviar with onions
sliced in powder
One day, the Polish Collectors' Post will be created, and Tadeusz Wierzejski (1892 – 1974) will occupy 1 of the most crucial places next to Felix ‘Mangghi’ Jasieński and contemporary large collectors specified as Grażyna Kulczyk, Mark Roefler or Jerzy Starak. Why was his collection occupied in 1973, accusing him of illegally exporting antiques to Vienna? In the mid-1970s, I heard from collectors that Wierzejski was the victim of a staff game in a fresh squad of the Ministry of Interior. In 1976, I noted the words of Julius Viktor Gomulicki, a prominent varsavianist and bibliophile: – The faithful prosecution was forced to give a gift to the Royal Castle in Budów. It's like they put a weapon to his head... The case was dropped, never yet cleared up.
In the Polish People's Republic, the trade in antiques was very politicized. Wierzejski was at the very top of the authoritative market. Witnesses of events years ago told me that Wierzejski knew politicians well, e.g. Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz, Zenona Kliszka, Marian Spychalski, the Minister of National Defence, or Mieczyslawa MoczaraHead of the Interior Ministry. I was told that he "provided the wives of successive rulers of the People's Republic". He was active in those times. possibly no private collector worked on specified a scale in the communist countries of that time.
