Элиза Ожешко, которой мы еще не знали

Abstract

The article alludes to the International Scientific Conference “The Memory of Culture: Eliza Orzeszkowa’s ever-living words. On the 175th anniversary of the writer’s birth, Grodno 27–28 October 2016, which was organised by the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and the University of Bialystok. It yielded a monograph entitled Eliza Orzeszkowa: the memory of culture. Studies and voices, scientific editors J. Ławski and S. Musijenko, Grodno – Bialystok 2019. The text by the Polish co-editor of the volume depicts the relationship between Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) and Zygmunt Gloger, a Polish publicist, ethnographer and historian (1845–1910). The author decided to translate a fragment of Orzeszkowa’s article into Belarusian and Russian. Gloger used this fragment as a motto for the first chapter of his book entitled Dolinami rzekami: opisy podróży wzdłuż Niemna, Wisły, Bugu i Biebrzy [Through the river valleys: a voyage alonf Neman, Vistula, Bug and Biebrza] (Warsaw 1903). This is not an introduction to the entire volume, but to Chapter 1 of this book, reprinted with Orzeszkowa’s permission from her review of Gloger’s reportage published by Orzeszkowa in a Polish magazine (Listy z Ustronia. IV, “Kraj” 1890, no. 11). As shown by prof. Musijenko, Orzeszkowa and Gloger shared the emotional, worshipful perspective on the Neman River.