Norwid and Edmund Chojecki – the Traveller
Journal: Studia Norwidiana
Year: 2020

The writer Edmund Chojecki (Charles Edmond) was one of Norwid’s most significant acquaintances, already in the Warsaw period, and later in Paris. Their friendship started in Warsaw in the 1840s and lasted a lifetime (or at least until the 1870s), although its preserved epistolary traces are scarce. This article focuses on Chojecki’s reports from his travels and their inspiring influence on Norwid: Edmund’s trip with Count Branicki to the Crimea (Wspomnienia z podróży po Krymie, Warszawa 1845), j