Most of the citizens standing in the courtyard listened to it stunned that the independence regained after 123 years is endangered.
As for the seat of TRCP historians and researchers are conflicted and give many different locations. Information sigh was placed on façade telling that the seat of TRCP was in palace. Luckily it was soon moved to underground – quite literally as Bolsheviks ruled for only 20 days. That’s the reason why the seat isn’t remembered – they just didn’t even settle down.
Barely a year after those events, palace became the seat of Regional Office. The chambers formerly used by Izabela Branicka were adjusted as offices.
Only 19 years later the balcony was used again to proclaim to Białystok residents, that new, better authority came. Red Army and Nazi leaders announced the incorporation of Białystok into Western Belarus. People realised a painful truth that Poland has been divide by two occupants which was the beginning of fighting on both fronts.
After the palace was rebuilt after World War II and handed to Medical University seat in XX 50’s, the name of Julian Marchlewski was given to it.