From 8 to 18 November 2024, the garden space at Tokyo’s Sogetsu Plaza, designed for the presentation of ikebana, will be ...

How did the life and work of Adam Mickiewicz impact global literature and the world we live in? A new online project produced by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute explores the unknown story of the Polish ...

Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki was composer of almost exclusively religious music – due to his deep involvement in priestly ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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