Historical FigureFemale
Wanda Wasilewská
1905 – 1964
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryWanda Wasilewska, also known by her Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya, was a Polish and Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
January 21, 1905
Kraków
Date of death
July 29, 1964
Kyiv
Citizenship
Austria–Hungary · Second Polish Republic · Soviet Union · Polish People's Republic
Occupations & fields
journalistwriterscreenwriterpoliticianpoetplaywright
Awards & honours
Order of LeninMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st classStalin PrizeCommander with Star of the Order of Polonia RestitutaWork Flag Order, 1st class
- Field and occupation
- polská spisovatelka a politička
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Fictional Character
daughter of Krakus, legendary founder of Kraków; upon her father's death, she became queen of the Poles, but committed suicide to avoid an unwanted marriage to a German
