Józef Szujski Street is a street in Kraków, in District I Old Town, in Piasek. It connects Rajska Street with Krupnicza Street. It is a single-carriageway road. History. The street was laid out in its current form at the end of the 1890s. In 1903, the Krakow City Council gave the street its current name to commemorate Józef Szujski, a Polish historian, one of the Krakow stańczyks, publicist, poet, and prose writer. He was a co-founder of "Przegląd Polski" and the first Secretary General of the Academy of Learning in Kraków.