https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.9653
The article is a study of the ideas contained in the memories, letters and writings of Ryszard Berwiński from the period of emigration in the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War, i.e. in the 1850s. The subject of research is primarily the literary legacy of Berwiński as an author actively agitating for cooperation with Turkey in the fight for Poland's independence. The main area of considerations is the mythologization of Polish-Turkish history, Berwiński's views on the East-West civilizational dilemma, as well as comments on political systems and history of Poland and Turkey. The myth of " righteous Turkey" and the deconstruction of the concept of Poland as the defender of Christian Europe seem particularly interesting in this context. The analysis of Berwiński's historical self-awareness aims to complement the state of research on the political thought of the partition period. Relations with Turkey, as the only neighbor of the first Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that did not participate in any of the three partitions, still remain insufficiently researched, but constitute an interesting chapter of Polish history of this period.
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