Among the many traces of Russian émigrés in Switzerland, a small monument lost near Winterthur is one of the quite forgotten ones, and is the work of Polish sculptors highly regarded in the region.

The writer Galina Djuragina (pseudonym Alja Rachmanova) emigrated from Soviet Russia in her youth and stayed in Austria from 1925, from where she fled with her husband in April 1945 from the Red Army to Switzerland and spent the rest of her life near Winterthur. Here she died in 1991. She became famous for her memoir novels of the Bolshevik Revolution, which have been translated into many languages, as well as her biographies of famous Russians. The legacy and furnishings of her house were taken over by the Historische Museum of the Canton of Thurgau in nearby Frauenfeld. Paweł and his son Romuald Polachowski, as her neighbours - Polish sculptors active in the nearby towns of Aadorf and Guntershausen - created an intimate monument with an unconventional formula on a small square - the crossroads of the main streets of Ettenhausen. A slender pedestal of green-grey stone is set under a solitary tree, on which 'sits' a figure of an owl, perched on a branch (bronze casting). The owl is looking towards the now-defunct home of the writer, also famous for her love of animals. Rachmanova herself is depicted as a young woman in a small bas-relief in patinated bronze, attached to the front wall of a pedestal stele. This portrait is the work of Romuald, as is the conception of the whole; the owl, on the other hand, was still to be carved by Paweł Polachowski.