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unusual facts about Mickiewicz



Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Gorzów Wielkopolski

The Adam Mickiewicz monument in Gorzów Wielkopolski is a notable Gorzów Wielkopolski statue, located near a cross of Lwów Eaglets Street and Władysław Sikorski Street.

Celina Szymanowska

When he found that Celina's mental state was getting worse, Mickiewicz had her committed to a mental hospital at Vanves, where she underwent sleep-deprivation, cold-water and mental-shock therapies.

Christ of Europe

Mickiewicz had helped found a student society (the Philomaths) protesting the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was exiled to central Russia as a result.

Cyprian Norwid

This made him consider a return to Europe, and he wrote to Mickiewicz and Herzen, requesting their assistance.

Michał Elwiro Andriolli

His work for various Warsaw-based newspapers made him one of the most renown illustration makers of the time and Andriolli was hired to illustrate some of the classic works of the Polish literature, notably the works by Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

He is notable for his illustrations to Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, as well as a distinctive style of villas built outside Warsaw.

Święty Marcin

On Adam Mickiewicz square is a statue of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, as well as a monument to the victims of the Poznań popular protests of 1956 (erected in 1981).

Uczeń Polski

The magazine was created by a group of secondary school pupils from Warsaw in the autumn of 1978 (Wojciech Ciszewski, Wojciech Dutkiewicz, Piotr Kapuściński, Zbigniew Karaczun, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Piotr Rogóyski) associated with the Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights (ROPCiO).

Zaosie

:"Zaosie" is also the Polish name of Zavosse, Belarus, the birthplace of Adam Mickiewicz.


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