The Odessa Almanac “Podarok biednym” – (not only) Mickiewicz’s texts and context
Journal: The Repository of University in Bialystok (University in Bialystok)
Year: 2025

The paper presents the benevolent almanac “Podarok biednym” and the translation of the sonnet Tschatir Dagh (Crimean Sonnets, sonnet 13) by Adam Mickiewicz, published in it. “Podarok biednym” was published in Odessa in 1834 (the motto was a quotation from the Aeneid by Virgil: “Miseris succurrere disco”) by a women’s benevolent society (R. Edling, Y. Vorontsova). The translator of the sonnet Tschatir Dagh was Afanasy Sovinskiy (Savinskiy), a poet, teacher from the city of Nezhin, translator of t