The article deals with the biographies of Henryk Sienkiewicz created in connection with the writer’s death and the celebration of bringing his body to Warsaw. These are texts of a more journalistic than documentary character, marked by rhetorical pathos, building the figure of the national writer – the successor of the romantic poets. For the description of their specificity the concept has been used which appears in the biographical studies written in English as “biomythography”, understood as a particular type of ideological narration with a distinct surplus of symbolic meanings.