Słowa kluczowe: Smolensk, Smolensk War, Jan Kunowski, propaganda, mythization., Polish Renaissance poetry, Livonian War, propaganda literature, ode, Jan Kochanowski, Jan Zamoyski, Ivan IV Terrible, Stephen Báthory, Muscovy, the capture of Polatsk 1579, Renaissance cartography, cultural memory, rhetoric, intellectual disputes, Benedykt Herbest, Jakub Górski, Stanisław Orzechowski, Franciscus Richardus Goezius., epyllion, miniature epos, epic, genus mixtum, literary genre, antic genres