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Adam Mickiewicz, (born Dec. 24, 1798, Zaosye, near Nowogródek, Belorussia, Russian Empire—died Nov. 26, 1855, Constantinople, Tur.), Polish poet. A lifelong apostle of Polish national freedom and one of Poland’s greatest poets, Mickiewicz was deported to Russia for his revolutionary activities in 1823. His Poetry, 2 vol. (1822–23), was the first major Polish Romantic work; it contained two parts of Forefathers’ Eve, a cycle combining folklore and mystic patriotism. Mickiewicz left Russia in 1829 and eventually settled in Paris. There he wrote Books of the Polish Nation and Its Pilgrimage (1832), a prose interpretation of the history of the Poles, and his masterpiece, the poetic epic Pan Tadeusz (1834), which describes the life of the Polish gentry in the early 19th century.