move the residence back to Belweder, purportedly in honor of Józef Piłsudski and the early presidents of Poland, but the move was understood as an attempt to avoid confrontations with mourners of the late president Lech Kaczyński, killed in the April 2010 Smolensk air disaster in Russia, who were congregating in front of the palace. Gallery See also Monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski in Warsaw Potocki Palace Carmelite Church Cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw Notes External links Virtual Tour Palaces in Warsaw Houses completed in 1643 Neoclassical architecture in Warsaw Official residences in Poland Presidential residences 1643 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Castles and palaces of the Radziwiłł family