- Celina Szymanowska
Celina Szymanowska (
July 22 ,1812 –March 5 ,1855 ) was a daughter of the Polishcomposer andpianist Maria Agata Szymanowska and the wife of the Polish Romantic poetAdam Mickiewicz Life
Celina Szymanowska married
Adam Mickiewicz inParis onJuly 22 ,1834 . The couple had six children: daughters Maria and Helena; and four sons, Władysław Mickiewicz (1838–1926), Józef Mickiewicz (1850–1938), Aleksander and Jan Mickiewicz.Marital discord and Celina's mental illness drove Mickiewicz to attempt suicide on December 17 or 18, 1838, by jumping out a window.
After Celina's death and the outbreak of the
Crimean War in 1855, Mickiewicz left his under-age children in Paris and went toIstanbul ,Turkey , to organize legions to fight for Poland's independence from theRussian Empire . At Istanbul, Mickiewicz soon caughtcholera and died.ee also
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Adam Mickiewicz References
*Zbigniew Sudolski, "Panny Szymanowskie i ich losy" (The Szymanowskis' Daughters and Their Fates), Wydawnictwo LSW, 1986.
*Alina Witkowska, "Celina i Adam Mickiewiczowie" (Celina and Adam Mickiewicz), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, ISBN 83-08-2900-0.
*Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński , "Brązownicy".External links
[http://krzysztof-rutkowski.art.pl/nagadusza.html] History of the Mickiewicz marriage (in Polish).
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