Adam Mickiewicz viewed Russia not only through the experience of partition and repression. His work also explored questions about freedom, the responsibility of nations, and the possibility of transformation.

We spoke with Professor Andrzej Nowak, historian, researcher of Polish-Russian relations, and advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland, about how Mickiewicz's thinking about Poland and Russia changed, the meaning of his famous Paris lectures, and why the romantic debate over freedom and empire remains so compelling today.

This conversation was created as part of the National Reading of Adam Mickiewicz's "Forefathers' Eve."

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