Odeski almanach „Podarok biednym” – teksty i konteksty (nie tylko) Mickiewiczowskie

Abstract

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 the antient and German poetry. There’re discussed the contents of the almanac (role of Mickiewicz’s sonnet) and the properties of the translation of the sonnet (versification, poetics, meaning, translation strategies and techniques). This article presents the findings of a comparative literary study (literary relations in the first half of the 19th century).