Zapadlá cesta za polskou revolucí

The goal of this study is to identify one of the most distinctive and progressive intellectual and political powers in the Czech society of the 19th century, the tradition of revolutionary Polonophilia, using the example of the relations of some Czech intellectuals with agents of the Polish Uprising in the 1863–1864. Attention is particularly focused on the activities of the prominent Czech writer Jan Neruda. The study places them into the wider context of the period, and at the same time draws attention to the state of, and values expressed in Czech Polonophilic studies targeting the history of the 19th century.