The monument of Adam Mickiewicz

Nice monument

Mickiewicz, Adam (1798-1855), Polish poet. Born December 24, 1798 in Novogrudok (now Belarus) in a small-scale gentry family. In 1819 he graduated from Vilnius University. In 1822 and 1823 he published two small collections of poetry, marking the beginning of the romantic movement in Polish literature. In 1824 he was exiled to Russia for active participation in Polish patriotic organizations; lived in Odessa, Moscow and St. Petersburg; in 1829 he received permission to leave for Western Europe. In Russia, Mickiewicz wrote the Crimean Sonnets (Sonety krymskie, 1826) and an epic poem in the Byron spirit by Konrad Wallenrod (1828), testifying to his poetic maturity. In 1829-1831 he lived mainly in Rome, where, having experienced a spiritual crisis, he became interested in mysticism. Without much enthusiasm, trying to join the participants in the Polish uprising of 1830-1831, in 1832 he settled in Paris, where he spent most of the rest of his life. In 1832-1834, two of his greatest poems were written: Part III of Dziady and Pan Tadeusz. In the first, Mickiewicz outlined his "messianic" idea, assigning the Poles the same place among other nations that Christ occupied among people: Poland was crucified, but will rise again and lay the foundation for a new historical era. Pan Tadeusz is set in rural Lithuania on the eve of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812; the plot is based on the feuds of local Polish gentry, which ended happily with a wedding. After Pan Tadeusz, Mickiewicz practically stopped writing poetry. In 1840 he became the first professor of Slavic literature at the College de France in Paris. In 1841 he fell under the influence of the mystic A. Tovianski, an apologist for Polish messianism, in whose teachings the belief in the revival of Poland was combined with the belief in the unceasing activity of the spirit of Napoleon. For the propaganda of Tovyanism, the French government removed Mickiewicz from lecturing in 1845, and in 1852 he was dismissed. In 1855, Mickiewicz went to Constantinople, where he intended to organize a Polish legion to help the French and British in the fight against Russia. Infected with cholera, he died on November 26, 1855. In 1890 Mickiewicz's ashes were transported from Paris to Krakow and placed in a sarcophagus in the Wawel Cathedral.

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Well-groomed monument. Next to great ice cream parlors.

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