Konrad Wallenrod
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Konrad Wallenrod is an 1828 narrative poem, in Polish, by Adam Mickiewicz, set in the 14th-century Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Konrad Wallenrod, a painting by Władysław Majeranowski (1844), National Museum in Warsaw.
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties –
Konrad Wallenrod
…composer Władysław Żeleński (1885). The Polish composer Frédéric Chopin may have based his Ballade No.1 in G minor on this poem. The Polish author Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, may have selected the second part of his pen name as an hommage to the poem's protagonist. Mickiewicz's poem…
Conrad's writer father, Apollo Korzeniowski
Nowy Świat 47, Warsaw, where three-year-old Conrad lived with his parents in 1861
Tadeusz Bobrowski, Conrad's maternal uncle, mentor, benefactor
Otago, the barque captained by Conrad in 1888 and first three months of 1889