When the Jagiellonians began to sit on the Polish throne, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began to form, the eastern part of the Commonwealth opened up for the Poles and many Polish families headed east to seek better fortune. Often these were poor noble families from Polish villages, such as Mazowsze, where they lived in poor houses. It was reminiscent of the wanderings of American settlers to the American west. And just as there was a Wild West in America, there was a Wild East (called Wild Fields) in the Polish Republic. However, the Polish Wild East was different from the American Wild West. In the Wild East there were areas that were really wild, no one knew by whom they were inhabited, they were invaded once by the Tartars, once by the Turks, wild places where fugitives hid from different lands, speaking different languages, with different customs, usually with no customs at all.

Dance polonaise, or the Polish dance called polonaise in its native country, is a ¾ rhythm social dance with a moderate tempo, enclosed in a repeating eighth-note pattern with two sixteenths. It is difficult to write about music, however, because music is something that must be felt. Someone who does not "read notes" cannot imagine the emotions aroused by a piece of music by reading about the notes themselves. But how else can you describe the feelings that dance evokes without talking about music? Let's close our eyes and imagine a ballroom, beautifully decorated, lit with hundreds of candles, women dressed in festive gowns, men in gala robes. One of the dignitaries, perhaps the host or a distinguished guest, asking a beautiful lady to dance, begins the polonaise. The rest of the dignitaries line up behind the first couple and follow them to the rhythm of the music with dignified, graceful steps, from time to time embellishing the "Polish step" with different figures. This is how balls in Poland have started since the 16th century. Over time, the polonaise gained in popularity and expanded its reach to Europe.

Casimir the Great, the last king of Poland from the Piast dynasty, did not leave any heir but the important legacy was the Wisliczko-Piotrek statutes, the first kind of legal code. There are mentioned there rights for beekeepers, who were engaged in a special kind of beekeeping that consisted in collecting honey from beehives, i.e. specially hollowed out hollows of trees, mainly oaks and pines. In those times, this was a particularly respected profession, inherited and honoured with the privilege of delivering honey to the court of a duke. At that time, honeys from barns, heather or lime honeys were considered to be of high quality, both in terms of taste and nutritional value. This profession required a certain amount of dexterity and strength, since climbing up the tree to the beehives was done with the help of ropes, which not everyone was able to do.