Ostaptseva, V. N. Cultural Dialogue between Russia and Poland in Literary Journal ‘Moscow Telegraph’ (1826–1829): A Lesson for Modernity

Abstract: Natinal culture is formed by creative individuals. Participation of Adam Mickiewicz in the Moscow Telegraph Journal and interest of Russian writers for creative work of this Polish poet and Polish culture in general was caused by adoption of general cultural values. The main principle of participants in a cultural dialogue is that love for truth should be more than love for one’s motherland. In the century of literature centrism literature was seen as a field for uniting two nations and two cultures. Dialogue between Russian and Polish cultures within the framework of a literary journal, based on Mickhiewicz, was the key to understanding between the two ‘related nations’ as well as in other spheres of human activities. Romantic consciousness has a historical memory about the union of the common Slavic roots of Polish and Russian nations and moreover even a deep memory about the common soul that was not divided based on national characteristics. It is our duty to keep this experience of international communication discovered by publicists at early XIX century who truly believed in cultural (Slavic and Christian) unity as the basis of relations between Poland and Russia.

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