In Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets, we find no trace of Russia. We do find a multicultural Tatar Crimea with all its dated glory and memory of the recent past. Is this why this work could, in time, ...

Although Adam Mickiewicz himself never made it to the Caucasus, his poetic words and message of freedom did. What role in the ...

Warsaw, 5th January 1938. The Institute for Art Propaganda (IPS) in Warsaw has just opened an exhibition of work by the ...

What does Mickiewicz have in common with China? Considering the geographical distance and the historical and cultural ...

How a piece of Polish messianism went on to inspire the central work of modern Ukrainian national consciousness. And how the ...

The subversive strategies of resistance and models of effective action which Mickiewicz forged in literature exerted an ...

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...

The brutal policies of the Russian Empire marked the poet’s entire life, as well as his nation’s history. What did Mickiewicz know about Russia – and how does this knowledge remain relevant?

Alexander Pushkin’s fantastical epic The Bronze Horseman marked a whole new epoch in Russian literature, ushering in a ...

What is the significance of the fact that, in the Invocation to Pan Tadeusz, Mickiewicz does not mention Poland? And what was ...

A group of officers and conspirators from the military school took Belweder Palace – the headquarters of the deputy of the ...

How Mickiewicz’s Orientalising poem written in frosty Saint Petersburg galloped off to the Bedouin desert – and from there, ...