Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness in the period of Partitions of Poland.
Portrait by Ary Scheffer
Krasiński, aged 7, by Louis-René Letronne (1819)
Joanna Bobrowa, one of Krasiński's romantic interests
Krasiński, 1850
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukrainian literature. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's "Three Bards" and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard". A leading Romantic dramatist, he has been compared in Poland and Europe to Byron and Goethe.
Mickiewicz, c. 1842
Zaosie manor, possible birthplace
Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus, in Navahrudak, where Mickiewicz was baptized
Mickiewicz's house, Navahrudak