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"Pan Tadeusz", or in full - «Pan Tadeusz, or the Last Raid in Lithuania. A nobleman's history of 1811-1812 in twelve books, written in verse" is Adam Mickiewicz's most significant work, an epic poem written in 1832-1834 in Paris, where the poet lived in exile, and published there in 1834.

The main characters of the poem, Tadeusz and Zosia, are representatives of two rival noble families - the Soplics and the Goreški. The poem develops from a romantic idyll (the model for which was Goethe's idyll "Hermann and Dorothea") into a broad epic picture that combines domestic, military, love and patriotic lines.

The poem reproduces so truthfully and in detail the pictures of life, everyday life and customs of the Polish and Lithuanian gentry (description of hunting, feasts, holidays, customs) that even during the author's lifetime it was described as an &Encyclopaedia of Polish Life».

The unsurpassed translation into Ukrainian was made by the great poet Maksym Tadejovych Rylsky.