Andrzej Kmicic
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The Deluge was the climax of a series of wars that took place in Poland–Lithuania in the mid-17th century. The Commonwealth was first affected by the Khmelnytsky Uprising, which began in 1648, and affected southeastern provinces of the country.
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a 1974 Polish historical drama film directed by Jerzy Hoffman, based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Henryk Sienkiewicz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 47th Academy Awards, but lost to Amarcord.
Jan 10, 2023 · an epic work of great ambition, stephen markley’s the deluge (the follow-up to his 2018 debut novel, ohio) is a dark, dystopian tale of american catastrophe and collapse. spanning a quarter century (2013-2039) – and some 950 pages – the deluge is speculative fiction (or, god help us, precognitive foreboding) at its absolute ...
The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Commonwealth during its historical period of the Deluge, which was a part of the Northern Wars .
Jan 10, 2023 · —Stephen King, on Twitter "Immersive and ambitious, [The Deluge] shows the range of its author’s gifts: polyphonic narration, silken sentences and elaborate world-building.” — New York Times Book Review "An astonishing feat of procedural imagination, narrative construction and scientific acumen."
Jan 10, 2023 · Stephen Markley’s bracing, beguiling, uneven new novel, “The Deluge,” tracks a cadre of radicalized scientists and activists from the gathering storm of the Obama years to the super-typhoons ...
May 14, 1975 · The Deluge: Directed by Jerzy Hoffman. With Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Wichniarz. During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
