Obraz kaukaskich rzek w poezji Tadeusza Łady-Zabłockiego

This paper presents the image of Caucasian rivers in the poetry of Tadeusz Łada-Zabłocki (1811–1847), a tsarist exile to the Caucasus. Zabłocki’s poetic vision of the rivers that flow through the Caucasus Mountains (the Alazani, the Kura, the Samur, the Kodori, the Aragvi and the Terek) is clearly ambivalent. Unlike his domestic, Belarusian rivers – a symbol for familiarity and idyllic harmony with nature – they are perceived as rapid, wild and dangerous entities. Yet, they stand for both the dominion of death and the unbridled power of life.