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At the Crossroads of Memory Pathways

Rev.: Aleksandr Fieduta, Fiłomat w Impierii. Dokumientalnaja powiestʹ o Frantiszkie Malewskom. Minsk 2019. „Nasz XIX wiek”

Summary/Abstract: The paper accurately discusses Franciszek Malewski’s biography (“Filomat v Imperii. Dokumentalnaya povest o Frantishku Malevskom” <”A Philomath in the Empire. The Documentary Story of Franciszek Malewski”>, 2019) by Alexandr Feduta, a Belarussian literary scholar who for many years has been publishing (in Russian, Belarussian, and Polish) materials referring to the history of the Philomaths exiled into the Russian Empire. Feduta scrupulously penetrated Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish archives, which allowed to picture the figure of Malewski—for most part omitted in Polish research—who, after leaving Mickiewicz, stayed in Russia and started moving up the ladder as an office worker. The biographer refrains from passing sentences, but rather displays the difficult choices of the Empire’s citizens in the context of political and legal situation of the country, and also in comparison with the lives of other Poles living and working in Russia.

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