The house-museum of Adam Mickiewicz in Zaosye

The house-museum in Novogrudok is not the only memorial place in Belarus associated with the life of Adam Mickiewicz. The poet was born in his family-owned manor house Zaosye on the Christmas Eve of 1798. Two centuries later the house was turned into a museum. The house of the 18th-19th centuries was re-created on the old foundations according to the drawings by Napoleon Orda, who was friends with Adam Mickiewicz, and Eduard Pavlovich, a teacher of the Novogrudok gymnasium. In the center there is the house with a reed roof surrounded by a flower garden, a pond with a banya (sauna), a two-storey barn with a summer room of the young poet and agricultural buildings.

The centerpiece of the exposition is the famous poem Pan Tadeusz (Sir Thaddeus).Thanks to the descriptions from the poem and the rare exhibits, the visitors to the museum can imagine the way the noble families lived several centuries ago. The exposition tells about the childhood and the youth in Zaosye and Novogrudok, first love and first poetic lines, which we learn in school, legends and traditions, the beauty of the nature – all this Adam Mickiewicz celebrated masterfully and subtly in his works.