WARSZAWA, Poland
Krakowskie Przedmieście
Krakowskie Przedmieście
Pomnik Adama
Mickiewicza. A neoclassicist monument erected in honor of the
poet Adam Mickiewicz
(Nowogródek [now Navahrudak, Belarus], 24 December 1798 - Constantinople, 26
November 1855), constructed in 1897-1898 by the Franco-Polish sculptor Cyprian Godebski
(Méry-sur-Cher, France, 30 October 1835 - Paris, 25 November 1909). The
monument was ceremonially unveiled on 24 December 1898 on the 100th anniversary
of poet's birth.
Photo © Kazimierz R. Leszczyński, 07.2011.
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