O literackiej topografii dawnych dworów polsko-inflanckich
On the Literary Topography of Old Polish-Livonian Manors

Summary/Abstract: Already in the perception of Baroque’s representatives not only trained geometers could be the authors of drawings presenting areas of land. Especially during the Romantic period the motif of unique correspondence between poetry, geography and painting, where maps moved to the forefront, becomes active. The geographical atlas becomes then a desired tool not only for travel to more or less distant locations of their homelands, but also in literary works. The presented article undertakes an at-tempt to research whether the awareness of this affinity of arts translated into the writings of authors coming from the northernmost area of the former Polish-Lithuanian state, the so called Polish Livonia (modern Latgale in Latvia), that is a region where the landscape was created not only by the colourful natural environment, in the form of meadows, forests, rivers and lakes, but most of all manors, houses, and palaces of the local gentry.

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