Józef Bohdan Zaleski (14 February 1802 – 31 March 1886) was a Polish Romantic poet. A friend of Adam Mickiewicz, Zaleski founded the Ukrainian poetic school.
Zaleski (feminine: Zaleska) is a Polish and Ukrainian (Залеський) toponymic surname related to any of the places named Zalesie. Outside Poland it could have been changed to "Zalesky". It is associated with several Polish noble families.
Józef Tretiak (28 September 1841 – 18 March 1923) was a Polish writer. Tretiak wrote a major critical biography of Józef Bohdan Zaleski (3 vols, 1911, 1913, 1914).
In Polish poetry, the Ukrainian school were a group of Romantic poets of the early 19th century who hailed from the southeastern fringes of the Polish-inhabited lands of the time (this period followed the partition of the Polish–Lithuanian...
Although Frédéric Chopin is best known for his works for piano solo, among his extant output are 19 songs for voice and piano, set to Polish texts.
February 14, Józef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886) — Polish poet and public figure. "Zaleski Józef Bohdan". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN. Archived from the
Aleksander Okińczyc (Belarusian: Аляксандар Акінчыц, romanized: Aliaksandr Akinchyts; 1839–1886) was a Polish and French physician and memoirist of Belarusian ethnicity. He was sent to Siberia by Tsar Alexander II's troops after participating in the...
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading...
The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic, Eastern Orthodox Christian militant people, originating from the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borders of the...
Romanticism in Poland, a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the evolution of Polish culture, began around 1820, coinciding with the publication of Adam Mickiewicz's first poems in 1822. It ended with the suppression of the January 1863...