Zamoyski Palace is located in Warsaw, between the Ministry of Finance and the Staszyca Palace. The building was built in 1667 by order of its first owner, Jan Velopolsky. In the years 1774-1745, the palace was rebuilt by the architect Peter Guise. The owners of the mansion in the following years were Francis Xavier Branicki and Anna Sapieha, for several years Stanislav Stashitsa lived in the palace. In 1839, the palace was acquired by Count Andrzej Zamoysky, commissioned by the architect Enrico Marconi in 1843-1846 to rebuild the building in the Neo-Renaissance style. The facade of the palace has become similar to the facade of the Roman Palazzo della Cancellaria. In the center, at the top of the building, a triangular pediment with bas-reliefs depicting mythological scenes by Pavel Malinsky was installed. September 19, 1863, during the Polish uprising, from the windows of the Zamoysky Palace, bombs were thrown and a carriage was fired, in which the governor of the Kingdom of Poland, Count Fyodor Fedorovich Berg, with adjutant Viktor von Val, rode. No one was seriously injured, Viktor von Val and several Cossacks of the convoy were shell-shocked, and the count himself escaped with a shot collar of his greatcoat. As a punishment for this, the soldiers of the tsarist gendarmerie conducted a search during which the property of the tenants was thrown out of the windows, robbed and demolished the building, a monument to Nikolai Copernicus, erected opposite the neighboring Stasitsa Palace, was even dropped. There is a story that during a search the gendarmes threw out the window and the piano of Frederic Chopin, who stood in the apartment of the composer's sister. The Polish poet Ciprian Camille Norwid dedicated his poem "The Chopin Royal" to this. The palace was confiscated by the authorities, since 1867 it housed the military departments, the Warsaw Field Court, a club, shops and warehouses. Between the First and Second World Wars, the building was occupied by the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police Directorate. The palace was damaged in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. The restoration of the mansion was carried out in 1948-1950, the work was supervised by the Polish architect and restorer Mechislav Kuzma. During the reconstruction, the appearance of the building was slightly changed, the balconies on the first floor were removed, the windows of the first and second floors are decorated in the Neo-Renaissance style. Today, the Institute of Journalism at the University of Warsaw is located in the Zamoyski Palace.
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