Andrzej Walicki here examines the relations between Polish and Russian thinkers in the 1840s, analyzing these relations in a broad comparative perspective against the background of the main currents of European throughout of that time. The book demonstrates that despite the scarcity of documentation, the intellectual encounters between Adam Mickiewicz or August Cieszkowski, on the one side, and Alexander Herzen or the Russian Slavophiles, on the other,...