What Adam Kilian wanted most was ‘to elucidate texts’: to illuminate the imagination – his own first, and then that of the ...

What could a Romantic nineteenth-century poet from Brazil have seen in Adam Mickiewicz’s ‘To the Polish Mother’? And what ...

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 ...

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?

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

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

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