Staszic Palace

's statue of Nicolaus Copernicus. Staszic Palace is a palace on Nowy Świat Street 72, Warsaw, Poland. Today it is the main building of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The history of the Staszic Palace dates to 1620, when King of Poland Zygmunt III Vasa ordered the construction of a small Eastern Orthodox chapel, as a proper place of burial for the former tsar Vasili IV of Russia and (...)