Adam Mickiewicz - Vilnius, Lithuania
N 54° 40.718 E 025° 17.268
35U E 389604 N 6060376
A plaque on the building at 7 Didžioji in Vilnius, Lithuania, identifies it as the house where poet Adam Mickiewicz once lived.
Waymark Code: WMPGRB
Location: Lithuania
Date Posted: 08/29/2015
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This commemorative plaque, created by Polish sculptor Andrzej Zubkow, has a portrait of Adam Mickiewicz at the top and the following text in Lithuanian and Polish:
1824.xi.6 (x.25)
iš šiu namu išvyko
ištremtas i rusija
ADOMAS MICKEVICIUS
visam laikui palikdamas vilnia
z tego domu
wyjechal w dniu 6.xi (25.x) 1824.r.
zeslany do rosii
ADAM MICKIEWICZ
opuszczajac wilno na zawsze
[ENGLISH TRANSLATION]
On 6 November (24 October) 1824
from this house was
deported to Russia
Adam Mickiewicz
permanently leaving Vilnius
The following information is from Wikipedia:
"Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 1798 – 26 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is counted one of Poland's "Three Bards" ("Trzej Wieszcze") and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard". A leading Romantic dramatist, he has been compared in Poland and Europe to Byron and Goethe.
He is known chiefly for the poetic drama Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) and the national epic poem Pan Tadeusz. His other influential works include Konrad Wallenrod and Grazyna. All these served as inspiration for uprisings against the three imperial powers that had partitioned the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth out of existence.
Mickiewicz was born in the Russian-partitioned territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which had been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and was active in the struggle to win independence for his home region. After, as a consequence, spending five years exiled to central Russia, in 1829 he succeeded in leaving the Russian Empire and, like many of his compatriots, lived out the rest of his life abroad. He settled first in Rome, then in Paris, where for a little over three years he lectured on Slavic literature at the Collège de France. He died, probably of cholera, at Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, where he had gone to help organize Polish and Jewish forces to fight Russia in the Crimean War.
In 1890 his remains were repatriated from Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, in France, to Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland."