Prof. Zbigniew Kaźmierczyk, PhD in Literature, associate professor in the Department of History of Literature at the Institute of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Gdańsk. He has displayed the Gnostic – Manichaean dimension of existence in Miłosz’s writings ('The Work of Demiurge', 2011) by applying the language of access to apocrypha of the religion of gnosis. He has gathered linguistic, historic, religious, ethnographic and archeological arguments for the Iranian ethnogenesis of Slavs and he has shown its literary implications in the work titled 'The Slavic Psychomachy of Mickiewicz' (2012). The existence of the Iranian dualism in the works by Miłosz and Mickiewicz (his term and attainment of the language of access, description and analysis) serves as a starting point for the Eastern shadow of Slavdom. Through the methodology worked out to define the specific nature of Slavic cultures he develops the hermeneutics of cultures of the East and the West as well as the mythological comparative studies. The founder and the head of the scientific and research Laboratory of Ethnogenetic Literature. The editor and co-editor of the joint monograph: 'Czesław Miłosz's Religiosity' (Gdańsk 2020) and 'Adam Mickiewicz and Russians' (Warsaw 2020), as well as more than one hundred book chapters and articles published in Poland and abroad (in English, Lithuanian, Russian and Ukrainian translations). The co-editor of the annual 'Studia Rossica Gedanensia'; the member of academic editorial boards for periodical journals: 'Київські полоністичні студії / Polish Studies of Kyiv' (Ukraine), 'Обрii друкарства / Printing Horizon (Ukraine), the member of scientific boards for journals 'Revista Amazonia Investiga' (Colombia), 'Progress: Journal of Young Researchers', as well as the publishing series 'Colloquia Orientalia Bialostocensia'. The president of the Gdańsk branch of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society, the vice-president of the Pomeranian Philosophy and Theology Society. He cooperates with the Study Station PAN in Moscow and with the Belarusian National Science Academy in Minsk (Instutite of Philosophy). - Work place: University of Gdańsk, Department of Languages, Institute of Polish Language and Literature - Research interests: ethnogenetic history of Slavic literatures, pre-Slavic Romanticism, literature of Romanticism and transformation of Romantic tradition in subsequent eras, Czesław Miłosz’s writings