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The article presents Mickiewicz’s subversive project connected with the intention to exchange the old cultural centre by a new centre, designed by the author. The project evolves around Dziady (“Forefathers’ Eve”), beginning from their Vilnius-Kaunas part; the poet returns to it in his Parisian lectures. The project, based onwhat is provincial, is realized through the construction of tradition, being the search for power.