Adam Mickiewicz Monument

The monument to the greatest Polish poet. Unveiled in 1898, 100 years after his birth, in the epoch of intense Russification of Poland after the January Uprising. Its inauguration was a success of the Construction Committee headed by Michal Radziwill and Henryk Sienkiewicz (future Nobel Prize in literature). In 1942, the Nazis destroyed it. Only the head and a fragment of the torso were recovered for the post-war reconstruction works.

Photo 174, May 2007

Adam Mickiewicz Monument detail

Photo 174d, May 2007

Adam Mickiewicz Monument plaque

Photo 175, May 2007