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The Polish Parliament did not have a permanent address for a long time, he worked under the open sky and after the castles.The General Sejm was gathered.in.in Piotrków, later regularly in Warsaw, Grodno, Toruń and a number of other places.For example, in the Jagiellonian time, Parczew was particularly liked on the border of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.After regaining independence, it was decided to break with the tradition of nomadic parliament, but the Warsaw reality was painfully collided.

In the city - for a hundred years with a wrap - a provincial, additionally squeezed corset of fortress fortifications, there was a lack of representative and capacious buildings enough.The capital for the Russians, unlike Lviv under the Austrians, did not have any center of local legislative authority.

The Royal Castle was devastated, the polytechnic was thought, and eventually it was decided on a group of buildings after the Alexandrian-Mary's Institute of Lady.The facility at Wiejska Street stood lowered, the teaching staff and students left in 1915.east as part of the gigantic evacuation of Russian institutions.

The Sejm installed in the school dining room, during the school's activity decorated with great portraits of the tsarist family.A long, narrow room and with absolutely hopeless acoustics.Sitting in the back, they did not hear those in front and vice versa, Ignacy Daszyński was to complain that it was easy to make a mistake in the vote, MPs could raise his hand, e.g..With a death sentence, not knowing what they actually do.For a cast iron gallery, also school Ostaniec, the audience ceased to let in when it turned out that the construction was not adapted to heavy loads.

The spirit of ancient amphitheater

In these makeshift circumstances, over 300 meetings were held, eaten disputes, even in the face of the Bolshevik storm, the legal order of the new state was shaped, Józef Piłsudski was entrusted to the office of the head and the scope of his powers was attached to him, two constitutions, small and March were adopted with him.The Presidium arrangement arranged at the time - the marshal towering over the rostrum and benches on the sides - was moved to the meeting room, which we now know.