Pan Tadeusz, or the Last Foray in Lithuania (Pan Tadevush) (in Belarusian)

Son of the impoverished nobleman Mikołaj Mickiewicz, a lawyer in Novogrudok (present-day Belarus). The poet’s mother came from a family of baptized Jews, followers of Jacob Frank. He was baptized in the parish church of Novogrudok on 12 February 1799. After receiving his education at the Dominican school (1807–1815), he entered Vilnius University (1815). From 1817 he took part in the creation and activities of the patriotic youth circles of the Philomaths and Philaretes, and wrote programmatic poems (“Ode to Youth,” 1820, and others).…

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