In Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets, we find no trace of Russia. We do find a multicultural Tatar Crimea with all its dated glory ...

While filming his ‘eerie and adventure-filled tale’ about vampires, Roman Polański understood that many clichés about the ...

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 ...

Mickiewicz’s Konrad Wallenrod triggered a massive wave of Polish biographies, in which Wallenrod’s ideals of a struggle for ...

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

The brutal policies of the Russian Empire marked the poet’s entire life, as well as his nation’s history. What did Mickiewicz ...

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

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, ...

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

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

Mickiewicz’s efforts to influence the politics and outlook of the Catholic Church in his lifetime came to nothing. He himself ...