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Rh ''mathematics and philosophy. He made scientific investigations in Vilna under Lalewel. At one time and another he lived in various large cities of Europe. In Germany he met and became friendly with Goethe. In Switzerland he met Krasinski. In 1833 he married. Her mother was the famous Slav beauty and musician who had so delighted Goethe in her youth.''

Among writers of Russia and Poland whose life period somewhat coincided with that of Mickiewicz's are: Korzenowski (born in 1797), the novelist (a brother of Adam Mickiewicz was fellow-teacher with Korzenowski at Charkov); (1829), likewise a novelist—it was he who translated The Crimean Sonnets into Russian;, Polish patriot and poet, whose "Maria"—perhaps the most popular poetic story in Poland—appeared at almost the same time as The Crimean Sonnets;  (1802),  (1809),  (1812), the three greatest poets of Poland excepting only Mickiewicz himself, the Polish critic, .

In Russia, the golden age of literature almost covered the same period as Mickiewicz's own life—Puschkin, Lermontov,, Gogol, to mention only some of the most important names. Rh