Matka Makryna

Makryna Mieczysławska claimed to be the abbess of a Uniate convent, tortured by the Russians for refusing to convert to Orthodoxy. She became famous across Europe and deeply influenced the Polish Romantics and the émigrés of the Great Emigration. In truth she was a simple servant, the widow of a Russian soldier, who had lived in poverty and humiliation and could voice her suffering only by wrapping real scars in an invented story rooted in national and religious myth. Her monologue revives a vanished Polish, baroque and Romantic, full of borderland dialect.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

398 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2014 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9788328009288 (original)