Poronin
Poronin , is a village in southern Poland; from 1999 it formed part of Tatra County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998). It lies approximately  north-east of Zakopane and  south of the regional capital Kraków. Poronin sits on the confluence of rivers  and , which gives rise to the river Biały Dunajec. In the summers of 1913 and 1914 Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a holiday home in nearby Biały Dunajec and often stayed in a Poronin inn. The area formed part of Austria-Hungary at that time (as a result of the Partitions of Poland), and when World War I broke out in mid-1914 the Austrian authorities arrested Lenin on suspicion of spying for  Russia (August 1914), but deported him to Switzerland soon after (September 1914). During 1947-1990 there used to be a  and a statue of Lenin. The statue was transferred to the Socialist Realism Art Gallery (, also known as the "Museum of Socialist Realism") in the Kozłówka Palace complex in the Lublin Voivodeship. References

Villages in Tatra County
Vladimir Lenin