Szczuki, Masovian Voivodeship

Szczuki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płoniawy-Bramura, within Maków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 9 km south-west of Płoniawy-Bramura, 11 km north-west of Maków Mazowiecki, and 80 km north of Warsaw. It is situated on the Węgierka River, a tributary of the Orzyc River.

History
Szczuki was a possession of Count Ludwik Józef Krasiński, one of the wealthiest Poles of the 19th-century, who founded the Krasiniec sugar factory by the village at which the Krasiniec settlement eventually emerged.

Notable people

 * Jan Andrzej Krasiński (1550–1612), historian, secretary of King Stephen Báthory