Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw

The Adam Mickiewicz monument in Warsaw (Polish Pomnik Adam Mickiewicz ) was according to the design of Cyprian Godebski on December 24, 1898, the hundredth anniversary of the greatest Polish poets of Romanticism - placed Adam Mickiewicz, at the Krakow suburb in Warsaw. Józef Pius Dziekoński and Władysław Marconi have the park surrounding the monument designed today after U.S. President Herbert C. Hoover - Hoover called Square.

Donated it was by Michał Sienkiewicz Henryk Radziwill and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1942, the monument was destroyed by the German army and sent to Hamburg. After the Second World War whose remains, head and torso were returned to Poland. In 1950, the monument of Jan Szczepkowski and Józef Trenarowski was reconstructed.

On January 30, 1968, there came before the monument to a student demonstration against the dismissal of the performance of the games played on the Warsaw National Theatre the play funeral (Polish: Dziady ) by Adam Mickiewicz. The rally was violently crushed by the militia.