Słowa kluczowe: poetry translation, samizdat, Leningrad, translation sociology, exile, Ilya Erenburg, Bruno Jasieński, I Burn Paris, Life and Death of Nikolay Kurbov, translation, polemics, contexts, Adam Mickiewicz, Jane Austen, economy, modernity, Romanticism, Pan Tadeusz, autograph, conjecture, text modernization, authorial intention, text dynamics, Western translation studies, reception, circulation of scientific concepts, publishing policies, Russia, travelling theory, Edward Said, orientalism, postcolonialism, translation of theory, translator's visibility