Adam Mickiewicz Museum
The house in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, where Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz settled when he came to Istanbul and lived until his death, was opened as a museum on the hundredth anniversary of the poet's death. Mickiewicz, who came to Istanbul to increase and strengthen relations with Poles working in Turkish service during the Crimean War with Russia, stayed in this house with his friends.
Adam Czartoryski, who came to Istanbul and founded Polonezköy as a result of the uprising in 1830 among Polish immigrants in the house, which was a center where Poles gathered during the Crimean War, and writer T.T. Adam Michalowski, who later became a Muslim, also lived with Jez.
Poet Adam Mickiewicz died in his home in 1855 due to cholera, which he thought he caught while visiting patients in tents in the Kurtuluş district. The three-storey house where the poet lived is now a museum, carrying Mickiewicz's difficult life to the present day. There is also the symbolic tomb of the poet in the cellar of the building. The museum is affiliated with the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum.
Source Türkiye Culture Portal History of Istanbul