The recently renovated museum-house of Polish poet Adam Bernard Mickiewicz in Istanbuls Dolapdere neighborhood displays his life with paintings, gravures and writings. His Turkish story began one morning in 1855 when he arrived in Istanbul with the aim to gather the Polish immigrant community to mobilize against Russia during the Crimean War. Two months later, however, he died of cholera. His friend, historian Teodor Tomasz Jez, described Mickiewiczs funeral, which was held on Nov. 28, 1855, and wrote, An ordinary coffin was atop an ox-drawn carriage passing along the muddy streets of Beyoğlu. Serbians, Dalmatians, Montenegrins, Albanians, Italians and notably Bulgarians flocked to the streets. There were Muslims in black dress; they paid their respects to the genius character of the Slavic poet. dailysabah/arts-culture/2014/12/23/istanbuls-polish-poet-remembered
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:03:22 +0000
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